ATTN: Those with Beaters

[Leper]

I bought the nicest Blazer I could find.... a year ago. Tomorrow the sawsall is going to have several hours of work. Find one.....get the price lowered because of the dents it has already and go dent it some more. I EXO'd mine and I still squeeze it through most things. My cage is huge and wide and is getting bigger and the 17" WIDE Pitbull Rockers are still going to stick out.

 

[87k10]

my truck looks better with the dents

 

[jaysonsk5]

i got the best (solid) k5 that i could find knowing that i was going to wheel it. i felt that the better shape the k5 was in the longer i would have it so i looked for a k5 that had a solid floor, hard to find in iowa, the one that i found was from colorado and belonged to a Ryan Gebhardt. it had a few ck5 stickers on it, he also said that it was a ck5 calender truck? i got it from him in july of 03(any one know this truck or guy?) i do not have any bad feelings about cutting it up

 

[Russell]

I personally believe it to be a sin to cut up a nice rust free truck, or to beat up one equally nice, lol

Buy a beat up K5, or pickup, not the cream of the crop, lol

That said, my K25 shall never get any intentional body damage, nor will she be trail run. The K5 I eventually plan to buy and build, yeah, she'll get beat to snot with no second thoughts, but she'll be beat when I get her in the first place!

 

[beaker]

Beaters

My K-20 had already been through the mill by the time I got to it. Fix the important stuff and make a "sleeper" out of it. For me, I don't care how it looks, I care how it WORKS. I just keep the cab hole-free so it stays warm in the winter. My 8' box is so severely rusted that you can lift it off the frame in every corner. But I don't think twice about trying a trail that the poor Jeepers are afraid of. I blow through it all. Mud, sand, rocks(not very often) and water, I fear nothing with the beater. Except the law, 'cause it's not that fast.

 

[boggerless]

mine has new front fenders and stuff. both are all jacked up.a couple shots from the 36's took care of that. i just don't want rust, being in this rotten state where they dump 2 tons of salt for every ounce of snow. i have a rust free cab from texas and i can't wait to tear it up in the snow, BUTi don't want it to look like the old body.we literally pulled that body off without un bolting it. dents are fine with me.

 

[mikey_d05]

Dents, what dents, you can get dents off-roading?....

 

[mrk5]

I thought I really cared about body damage, until the first one.

Actually it was one trail that did me in. Dented the front passenger fender and I had to pound the front of the door in to get it open. Mashed a rear quarter coming off a rock. It's been down hill from there.

I don't like rust, so I hit the exposed metal with paint.

I actually think I could have avoided a lot of the dents with some modifications to my bumpers and sliders. I'm tentatively planning to work out my bumper design to protect most of the sheet metal, and then once I have it worked out I will look for a donor body.

Til then I'm not too concerned.

 

[blazd88]

I look back at pics of mine and remember the good ol days. 4 inch lift/35s and enough bling for MTV. Then I look at all the dents and think of all the great times had getting those dents, then im not bothered that its not straight anymore.

WHEEL ON!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[k5redneck]

take it out, dump it on it's side a time or two so u will get over the fear of denting a clean 73. parts are ment to be broken and fenders where made to be dented

i have given up on strait bodys a long time ago now i dent it for the fun of it

i know its not a fullsize but its still runing chevy parts

 

[ZooMad75]

They wouldn't be called "beaters" if they were clean and dent free. But thats why I didn't have a problem buying my 75. It came to me with a few trail dings already in it (plus the rocker/wheel well rot). I haven't dented it on the trail, but not afraid if the time comes. The only dent I've inflicted on it was when some dumb chick in an F150 tagged my left front corner in an intersection. Broke my park light and put a dinner size plate dent in the fender. $5 later for a junkyard marker lens and I was good as new. The F150 needed $2200 to fix....

 

[joez]

I regret denting the pretty truck I drive all the time .

I regret denting mine up too, especially now that im trying to sell it for a better tow rig Mine was a mint truck from the southwest when i got it.

Now the Toyota, thats a completely different story.

 

[zcarczar]

I regret denting mine up too, especially now that im trying to sell it for a better tow rig Mine was a mint truck from the southwest when i got it.

Now the Toyota, thats a completely different story.

Everyday I look at my blazer and want to kick myself in the ass for denting up my truck, i had one of the nicest blazers around and its trashed now, it sucks, dont do it.

 

[JK5]

Before I trashed mine..I took most of the panels off...and put rough panels on.

BEFORE

AFTER

I don't regret beating mine to death..the pan was a little rotted.
I have all but the 1/4 panels up in my garage attic. One day I'll build the purple rig with the clean pan I have in the back yard.

I would definately do it....I've had way to much fun wheelin'...
more fun than I did "showing" the rig.

 

[jaysonsk5]

holy sh*t! that thing was clean! but looks like its been fun, if you take away the nice paint than it's like how they all started out, but wow that thing has changed

 

[JK5]

holy sh*t! that thing was clean! but looks like its been fun, if you take away the nice paint than it's like how they all started out, but wow that thing has changed

Thanks...

Many people called me an a-hole for trashing it...
I bought the rig in 91'...it was a wheeler. In 96' I replaced all the sheet metal with GM parts and painted it purple. I stored the rig in a buddies wet garage
(he never told me the roof was leaking) and the floor rotted after that. I bought a 76' k5 that was from Cali...that was pretty clean. Now I just need to sell my black 77' k5...so I have room to build my new purple k5.

 

[TruckNutzDude]

Thanks...

Many people called me an a-hole for trashing it...
I bought the rig in 91'...it was a wheeler. In 96' I replaced all the sheet metal with GM parts and painted it purple. I stored the rig in a buddies wet garage
(he never told me the roof was leaking) and the floor rotted after that. I bought a 76' k5 that was from Cali...that was pretty clean. Now I just need to sell my black 77' k5...so I have room to build my new purple k5.

I'd never say you were an A-hole for trashing something that had rust. If it was a nice rust free or semi rust free rig then I might flame you! My rig was completely rotten, way beyone the point of restoration or street worthiness so I cut all the rot out of it and that pretty much left me with a firewall and a roof. Everything else is either not there or has been replaced (then scraped against trees/ rocks)

 

[JK5]

I'd never say you were an A-hole for trashing something that had rust. If it was a nice rust free or semi rust free rig then I might flame you! My rig was completely rotten, way beyone the point of restoration or street worthiness so I cut all the rot out of it and that pretty much left me with a firewall and a roof. Everything else is either not there or has been replaced (then scraped against trees/ rocks)

Ha Ha!!! You'd probably flame me.

It's been fun.

I'd like to see some resent pics of zcarczar's Rig.
His was probably cleaner than mine.

 

[beastofablaze]

My rig has dents but i bought it like that... but other than a bad fender my rig is pretty clean.

I wheel my rig hard but i see no point in putting dents in my **** just so i can say this is where this came from. I take more pride in going the same way the beaters go and keeping a clean body. It takes more skill to get up a hill, over rocks, through ruts, between trees, etc., without bending sheet metal.

I'd rather keep a clean body and wheel hard...

 

[78Buford]

My rig has dents but i bought it like that... but other than a bad fender my rig is pretty clean.

I wheel my rig hard but i see no point in putting dents in my **** just so i can say this is where this came from. I take more pride in going the same way the beaters go and keeping a clean body. It takes more skill to get up a hill, over rocks, through ruts, between trees, etc., without bending sheet metal.

I'd rather keep a clean body and wheel hard...

I welcome you to follow me or a few of the GM owners on this board that I wheel with & see how the body looks after a ride or two.

Roy