utherjorge
1/2 ton status
I bought an '87 K5 off of eBay in November of 2009,and it's been kinda' sitting since then.
Quick background: I had an insurance settlement some years ago, and bought a 1967 Impala. Loved the car, but I didn't understand a manual choke (I still don't), and there were some ticky-tack problems I didn't understand, and some holes I never did find that let exhaust into the cabin. Between the exhaust and the fact that I got stranded too many times with it...and kids, it went away. I sold it to a guy in Colorado that was looking for one to restore, and out west, all Impalas get cut up to be lowriders. I think it went to a good home.
I called it "the bizznatch". I missed that car the second it went on the truck.
So, living in PA as I do, I wanted something I could enjoy for four seasons. Including and especially summer, but as my wife and I keep having babies, it would need to seat six. That rules out just about everything that can have its top off, except for perhaps a Bronco, and obviously a Blazer. I was always a Chevy guy. So...I chose the Blazer. The new Bizznatch.
I got my K for $1300, I think, knowing it needed work, but it also came with one of those Bestops in great shape, and mechanically, it was in very good shape.
Since I've had it, I've done some minor work on it or to it, but first we had a baby, then I had shoulder surgery. This is the summer I want it on the road.
I tried to have a floor put in the back to replace the rotted one. I don't know how to weld, so I was going to have someone do it. It went poorly. I will leave it to your imagination.
I have a student who owns a Blazer and has rebuilt his own. He was begging me to work on mine since his is basically done, and so I let him have at it, and he's done a lot, but now he's done, and it's time to go to work on it on my behalf.
When I get some sun, I'll throw pics up. I've occasionally pestered you all up here for advice and you've never failed, so I'l eager to get into some work and get her legal for fun this summer.
Quick background: I had an insurance settlement some years ago, and bought a 1967 Impala. Loved the car, but I didn't understand a manual choke (I still don't), and there were some ticky-tack problems I didn't understand, and some holes I never did find that let exhaust into the cabin. Between the exhaust and the fact that I got stranded too many times with it...and kids, it went away. I sold it to a guy in Colorado that was looking for one to restore, and out west, all Impalas get cut up to be lowriders. I think it went to a good home.
I called it "the bizznatch". I missed that car the second it went on the truck.
So, living in PA as I do, I wanted something I could enjoy for four seasons. Including and especially summer, but as my wife and I keep having babies, it would need to seat six. That rules out just about everything that can have its top off, except for perhaps a Bronco, and obviously a Blazer. I was always a Chevy guy. So...I chose the Blazer. The new Bizznatch.
I got my K for $1300, I think, knowing it needed work, but it also came with one of those Bestops in great shape, and mechanically, it was in very good shape.
Since I've had it, I've done some minor work on it or to it, but first we had a baby, then I had shoulder surgery. This is the summer I want it on the road.
I tried to have a floor put in the back to replace the rotted one. I don't know how to weld, so I was going to have someone do it. It went poorly. I will leave it to your imagination.
I have a student who owns a Blazer and has rebuilt his own. He was begging me to work on mine since his is basically done, and so I let him have at it, and he's done a lot, but now he's done, and it's time to go to work on it on my behalf.
When I get some sun, I'll throw pics up. I've occasionally pestered you all up here for advice and you've never failed, so I'l eager to get into some work and get her legal for fun this summer.
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