Well it was a long weekend. Friday night we left at 8pm from St. Louis headed to Atlanta GA. After I got lost and drove 100 miles out of the way, we were on our way. We stopped saturday at 5am to take an nap, and by 8:30am we were back on our way. We reached Atlanta by 11:30am. We bought the truck, and headed home. Got back to St. Louis by 10:05pm Saturday night. Spent the rest of the weekend recovering from the drive /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
Here's the deal on the new truck. I already have 1 75K5 that I was planning on restoring. I found this one last week, and it was in much better shape than mine. It has 96K original miles, the owner has had it since 77, and they did a full frame-off restoration in 92. Everything on the truck works (including the power windows, R-134 A/C, and all gauges), and you can tell it has never seen rain or mud.
Now in about 3 hours my old Blazer will be sold on ebay. If anyone want's to bid last-minute, here's the URL /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1854510711
That will give me some cash to play with this one. I already have my 02 tahoe 3rd seats and 02 silverado front seats that I want to put in this one. I'd also like to upgrade to a blown 383Ci with multi-port fuel injection and replace the stock trans and full time transfer case with a part time case mated to a 4L80e. The only other pressing thing is I would like to improve the responsivness of the steering. Probably hydro-assist or crossover steering. That should keep me occupied for atleast the next year, if not longer!
It's really nice to drive this one, it's almost like a brand new blazer. It was kind of an impulse buy, but for the price I didn't want to wait to think it over.
here's some pics!
Here's the deal on the new truck. I already have 1 75K5 that I was planning on restoring. I found this one last week, and it was in much better shape than mine. It has 96K original miles, the owner has had it since 77, and they did a full frame-off restoration in 92. Everything on the truck works (including the power windows, R-134 A/C, and all gauges), and you can tell it has never seen rain or mud.
Now in about 3 hours my old Blazer will be sold on ebay. If anyone want's to bid last-minute, here's the URL /forums/images/icons/smile.gif
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1854510711
That will give me some cash to play with this one. I already have my 02 tahoe 3rd seats and 02 silverado front seats that I want to put in this one. I'd also like to upgrade to a blown 383Ci with multi-port fuel injection and replace the stock trans and full time transfer case with a part time case mated to a 4L80e. The only other pressing thing is I would like to improve the responsivness of the steering. Probably hydro-assist or crossover steering. That should keep me occupied for atleast the next year, if not longer!
It's really nice to drive this one, it's almost like a brand new blazer. It was kind of an impulse buy, but for the price I didn't want to wait to think it over.
here's some pics!
