My homebrewed K5 creation....

[Wrenchen66]

Wanted to share some pics of my home-made 1966 chevy blazer.
She was a 66' chevy longbed 2 WD and has been in my family since it came off the showroom floor. It has been in several accidents, one of which demolished the entire front clip.

This was the first vehical I ever drove (other than a tractor). The first engine I rebuilt was in the truck (when I was 8 years old). A lot of other firsts happened in the truck, but I will leave those to your imagination.

Here is how she looked about 5 years ago

after I put her on a 85 chassis and added 3/4 running gear.

Here she is after a grueling year and a half of parts collection and raiding my savings account. (pre-cage)

Converted her to a full off top Blazer, doved tail rear and family cage, 3 seater currently, with 404 portals. DIY B52 in the front, 56" rears (inboarded below the frame), divorced NP205, SM465, slightly better than stock 350 {still carberated}, 38 TSL/SX's (needs bigger tires) Final crawl ratio ~98:1, max speed ~40mph lol...

This last one is a pic of her streating hert legs....

 

[munepit]

Sweet!!!!! Nice rig!!

 

[stumpjump]

Man I love this rig I've followed you build on pirate for quite some time...

 

[EIB8400]

Looks good. I like it.

 

[lak2004]

Looks awesome! Got any pics of the rear spring setup?

 

[sawzall]

That thing is just pure nastiness! i love it!

 

[Fred_M1010]

SWEET!

 

[cegusman]

Only if Chevy would build a mean looking rugged truck again

 

[Greg Ducato]

Crazy Cool!

 

[Wrenchen66]

Looks awesome! Got any pics of the rear spring setup?

This is the best picture that I have currently without crawling under the truck.

I made brackets out of 3/8 is plate steel with cross members and support braces. The front mount is a DIY spring mount, the rear is a Ballistics Fab shackle bracket and bushing. I ran 7 inch rear shackle to help level out the truck stance. She is a flexy S.O.B. for sure.

The brackets are all welded to the frame now, no more bolts to worry about

 

[Wrenchen66]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1avbXE_kdc&hd=1

Here is a video from last week on the Con. Her maiden voyage, as you can see, she needs bigger tires. She still did everything I asked of her and more... We did everything but the Box, she got some body damage on Big Sluce, but nothing too bad.

 

[GMC1977]

Isnt there a build thread over on pirate for this?

 

[Wrenchen66]

Isnt there a build thread over on pirate for this?

Yes, but I wanted to share my creation with CK5, since this site was the reason I wanted to make her a Blazer style vehicle.

And not everyone on here spends a lot of time on Pirate.

 

[zombie1969]

Looks like your doing a good job but I do hate to see those classic trucks get chopped up.That was a rare truck.

 

[K5dreamer]

friggin sick.

 

[GMC1977]

Yes, but I wanted to share my creation with CK5, since this site was the reason I wanted to make her a Blazer style vehicle.

And not everyone on here spends a lot of time on Pirate.

Hell i dont like spending time over there...Ive only made one post lol. This was just one of the threads i looked through. Nice job on the build.

 

[76zimmer]

Looks like your doing a good job but I do hate to see those classic trucks get chopped up.That was a rare truck.

Anybody can restore a truck, it takes a real man to cut one up


Love the truck man, thanks for bringing it over here.

 

[desertrat67]

Nice looking truck! I am on a German camp in Afghanistan right now and see Unimogs and other vehicles with portals under them everyday. The ground clearance has me drooling.