88 Blazer "Red Rover"

[SHINTON]

SHINTON submitted a new Build:

88 Blazer "Red Rover"

This just came home this weekend, 110 miles no problems, hit 70 mph at times, with a bit of wandering but very driveable. Previous owner has put on 2.5" lift springs in the front, block in the rear and reduced the body lift to 1.5". 33x12.50 ProComp Xtreme A/T tires that look brand new and a Softopper that is in great shape, clear windows and no no leaks even after 2 hours of rainy ride home. Rear tailgate is from 86 pickup I believe and I have the blazer tailgate as well (power, needs parts to rebuild) Rear axle is 6 lug 14 bolt with factory posi and the front is 10 bolt from his 1980 Blazer, both sporting 3.73 gears.

Goal is to drive this back and forth to work as my toy, 20ish miles each way and light wheeling and camping rig. First goal is to make it "pretty" so the wife hates it less, hitting Econo-Paint asap and repainting the front grille back to a nice silver. New trim on passenger side, Rally wheel center caps and beauty rings and the 'lipstick on a pig' portion of the projection will have reached its first stop.

88 Blazer Front

• SHINTON
• Dec 16, 2018

88 Blazer Rear

• SHINTON
• Dec 16, 2018

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[SHINTON]

Planning on calling up the body shops this week, trying to decide if I want to work on the bit of rocker rust and section around passenger rear bumper corner first. Might sand them down and thinking about undercoating them to seal it all in, not wanting a full on restoration at this point but something to drive to work on routine basis starting this week.

 

[Smokinthehippies]

Looks pretty good. And it sounds like the previous guy built it right and knew what he was doing so that’s good too

 

[SHINTON]

Ok got the truck back from the Econo Paint place on Friday and then holiday weekend!! Installed the Trail Gear covers from Cabelas as well and VERY happy with those results. This is a really good looking paint job from 10 feet out, closer and you will see the 30 years of accumulated dents and dings. Had someone already ask me if I wanted to sell and got stopped to chat about it twice this weekend!!

 

[SHINTON]

Some before and after of the seat covers!!

 

[Smokinthehippies]

I have those same seat covers on my dodge front seats. Big fan.
They do make your back sweat a bit in the summer, but not nearly as bad as the neoprene ones I had before.