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Wheelers vs. Eye Candy...

Hopefully I will have all three someday. Horton is my current wheeler, don't mind putting a couple dents in it but try not to you can search my username for pics.

I have an 89 blazer I plan on making a full vert using parts from my 73, this one will be a mild wheeler 3/4 tons a rear locker 37s or 35s about a 3 or 4" lift. This one will have very nice paint nice interior etc but it will still get wheeled

The third probably true mall crawler will be my crew cab daully, 2-3" of lift some 35s (315.75.16s) nice paint interior. The only dirt it will probably see is dirt roads.

I currently own all three rigs, the blazer needs totally built but has a clean body, the crew cab needs motor trans and t-case. I will probably keep these three rigs for a very very long time :D
 
My mallcrawler is my Yukon, but it still see's occasional light wheeling.

My trail rig is the 81, but it's going to be a clean off roader. I don't like the idea of bashing the crap out of it. It bothers me when guys take cherry newer rigs and hack and cut and weld and wheel them to shreds, no longer recognizable as a Blazer. Not my cup of tea. Mine will very evidently not be a crawler, but also not a trailer queen that doesn't feel it was wheeled if I didn't break something. My idea of what 4x4 is for, is to explore, to see new places, to see what is around the bend, not how big of a rock I can hurtle myself over. My rig will be lifted 2-4", 33's, stock axles, FI V8, and spartan interior. Very capable of driving itself to whatever destination I have in mind, even if it's the top of a mountain. 95% of the trails out there can be accessed by a mostly stock rig, and the 5% that can't, I don't really have the desire to.

I'll get off my soapbox now.
 
mine will be both when its done.look good enough for show,but will go also.as was said i will never beat it and not looking to go crazy with it.just go to the trails and run around on the easier ones so it doesnt get dented..then still make it home for dinner.if i want t go hardcore i would find a basically junk blazer and beat the crap out of it.if its already junk,then i dont have to be easy on it and dont have to worry about body panels.
 
When i move to the country i'm starting my next prodject. 50 or 60's Chevy on a newr frame. Lifted too tall and looking good. Take it to shows, cruise around, Truck pulls, Mudbogs stuff like that. Just gotta wait for the farm so i can sneak into Iowa and drive the damn thing.:mad:
 
ryoken said:
how about actually getting to the trails, etc?

general rant....

a "trail only" rig is fine if you have places to go trailer it to... thats saying you want another investment into a towrig and trailer, I don't... be nice, but I wanna drive my truck too... they are after all vehicles... if I wanna pick up lumber, stop for a slurpee then hit a mudhole on the way home, so be it...

why is "4 wheeling" like sooo many other interests... skaters are the same freaking way, one extreme or another, well, actually skaters are worse... tell ya what, I hate guys who act all "hardcore", in any interest.... threads like "who actually wheels" are friggin ghey......
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I have to give credit to BoondocK5 for laying out this gem a few days ago:

"functional" has become the new "hardcore."



That pretty much sums up where a lot of people's heads are at these days.... no more trailers, or expensive diesels to tow them around. Just a well thought out 4X4 that's capable on the trail, and comfortable enough to just jump in and drive on the street for the fun of it.



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I've always had junk that'd take me where ever i wanted to go. Of course they were rusty piles of threw together parts from 3 different trucks but i always had a good time.

I have a '72 chevy i plan on completely rebuilding with about a 6" lift and 35's for a cruiser but if i wanna head to the river i wouldn't have a problem with that.

I have an '80 Chevy i'm currently building for mud. Built motor/built tranny with about 37-40's to play around in.

Also have my '94 i'd like to build for trails to follow my jeep friends around. It's too big though. May just buy me a jeep :doah: Found one cheap even.

I'm not gonna bash anybody for what they build. If they wheel half-ton axles so be it. I've been pretty damn hard on them and no problems.

Sooo wheel what you're gonna wheel. Oh and yes i hate winter as well. I like snow but we get very little snow and lot of ****ty ice storms
 
Wheeling vrs mall candy

I call my burb a 'pavement princess' since thats about all I ever see. No time or funds to go hard core and don't want to go bogging in my DD. I'd be happy enough to ride thru the mud in one of your rigs though. ;-)
 
yellowK20 said:
On the other side of the coin guys who take a nice rig out and Intentionally beat the crap out off it because thats "hardcore" dont make much sense either. I love to wheel and I love to wrench and I like to drive Old iron that looks good........which is why i have so many projects . I say take the beaters and build the off-road rigs and keep the nice trucks nice
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Sums it up for me too. I'm not real concerned about looks on my rig, just want it powerful, and reliable, and stout. The body has a bunch of Chinawanese panels on it already, the underbody is pretty solid, but the doors fit crappy, and the panels are hacked on, perfect for a wheeler.:wink1:
If I want pretty, I get in my hot rod, and hammer that too.:D
 
Randy92782 said:
I've always had junk that'd take me where ever i wanted to go. Of course they were rusty piles of threw together parts from 3 different trucks but i always had a good time.

I have a '72 chevy i plan on completely rebuilding with about a 6" lift and 35's for a cruiser but if i wanna head to the river i wouldn't have a problem with that.

I have an '80 Chevy i'm currently building for mud. Built motor/built tranny with about 37-40's to play around in.

Also have my '94 i'd like to build for trails to follow my jeep friends around. It's too big though. May just buy me a jeep :doah: Found one cheap even.

I'm not gonna bash anybody for what they build. If they wheel half-ton axles so be it. I've been pretty damn hard on them and no problems.

Sooo wheel what you're gonna wheel. Oh and yes i hate winter as well. I like snow but we get very little snow and lot of ****ty ice storms
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Randy, is that the original Bigfoot in your avatar?

I saw that thing in 79 at the Car Craft Street Machine Nat's in Indy. Talk about a head turner.
 
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I think it looks pretty darn good :D Granted this pic was early this year and a few trips were pretty hard on the body, but like wayne said I'll build another pretty one someday, or fancy up my crew cab :wink1:

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76zimmer said:
Randy, is that the original Bigfoot in your avatar?

I saw that thing in 79 at the Car Craft Street Machine Nat's in Indy. Talk about a head turner.
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Yup it is. I think the last time i saw it i had to be 5 or 6. Bout 20 years ago. I'd love to build a truck like it

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I like hardcore wheelers and eyecandy equally. but will probably never own either one. I like multicolored and beat up "junk" as my girlfriend would call it. I try to explain to her that in my eyes all of the 69-87 chevy trucks blazers etc. are beautiful no matter how ugly they are:D.

being aesthetically pleasing to the eye is not one my priorities for my vehicles. However, one of the requirements I have for my trucks is that they be street driveable and reliable. I want my trail rig to double as a daily driver if need be.

I love nice looking vehicles but I would be afraid to use a "show truck" if I owned one and being the practical person that I am, I do not want something that isnt useful.

for reference here are some pics of the truck that I drive to work every day, use to haul wood and other junk, pull trailers, carry groceries, and I even take my girlfriend on dates in it




and Im currently building up another truck with similar capabilities for a back up. using your dd as a trail rig has its downsids:doah:
 
My blazer is for all intensive purposes trail only. Could be driven on the road with questionable legality. I have done it for short distances. I wouldn't do it for long distance. That pretty much makes it a trailer queen in my book.

Crewcab is pretty functional as a tow rig, admittedly taller than it should be for the job. There is also an advertising purpose for the Crew cab.

I do enjoy an old beater. It's nice not having to worry about every little thing and just use it for what it was meant to be used for. The shop Scrappin' rig suits this roll.
 
The really odd thing about this thread is why do you have to classify your truck. I have a freind with a white ramcharger, one tons lockers 38s etc etc etc. Most think its a mallcrawler. He has run pritchet with us run a couple of the easier trails in area BFE with us run the harder trails up here, yet it still looks really nice.

It really annoys me when poeple call my truck a rock crawler, it does fine in rocks but it does fine in mud and sand and on trail rides and if you keep it under 70 it does fine on the highway. It certainly isn't nice and is on the ragged edge of street legality (because of bumpers and fender flares mainly)

So while Horton may not be a pretty truck it is a trail ridin rock crawlin mud whumpin dune racin fool and in all reality is fairly comfortable to drive on the road.

Thats how I build em
 
It really annoys me when people call my truck a rock crawler, it does fine in rocks but it does fine in mud and sand and on trail rides and if you keep it under 70 it does fine on the highway. It certainly isn't nice and is on the ragged edge of street legality (because of bumpers and fender flares mainly)

So while Horton may not be a pretty truck it is a trail ridin rock crawlin mud whumpin dune racin fool and in all reality is fairly comfortable to drive on the road.

Thats how I build em
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Amen Brother :bow:
 
I'm a firm believer in function over form. Meaning I don't mind daily driving something that looks beat up. Body damage doesn't affect the way the rig runs so why bother trying to fix it especially when you will eventually wheel it again where the body damage will happen again? Plus, another thing I've noticed is that if you drive your beat up rig on the street, the snobs in their fancy super expensive luxury cars merge into another lane to get out of your way.

Scott
 
Theres nothing wrong with a beater, But what I dont like is when guys take a Nice ride and beat the crap out of it because its "hardcore" pivoting of trees and rocks on a normal basis. Body damage happens but I try to avoid it at all cost I pick my lines accordingly lots of Dents dont mean your a bad ass wheeler
 
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