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Wheelers vs. Eye Candy...

yellowK20 said:
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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I have to kinda laugh at this only because how everybody tells me how Nice my truck is. I don't beat the crap out of it but I will wheel it hard. My truck is NOT that nice even though in pictures it looks nice. It has a $100 paint job that was just done to make it one color. I didn't do any bodywork to it so if there was a dent when I started it got painted over. Pictures hide quite a bit. Not a single dent on my truck had anything to do with being bad ass. Most of the dents came from sliding off slick rocks and hitting a tree or another rock. Picking lines has nothing to do with it. Like I said I will build a mall crawler some day and trust me, that will be nice and stay that way.
 
Laugh all you want , I wheel Moab,Las Cruces,Farmington, and Local 4+ trails. I get dents, I get rock rash, I've Flopped 3 different trucks. But I don't take lines that I KNOW will cause damage. I dont use my bedsides to pivot around corners.

Even my "nice trucks" aren't above wheeling I just do mild trails and mud runs and they get washed and dents and scratches get fixed
 
Mine will be a nice looking wheeler (if I ever finish it). I like the idea of having a shiny mall crawler and the idea of having a trail specific beater but, I can't afford to have both so, I reckon a nice wheeler is a good compromise! :thumb:
 
yellowK20 said:
Laugh all you want , I wheel Moab,Las Cruces,Farmington, and Local 4+ trails. I get dents, I get rock rash, I've Flopped 3 different trucks. But I don't take lines that I KNOW will cause damage. I dont use my bedsides to pivot around corners.

Even my "nice trucks" aren't above wheeling I just do mild trails and mud runs and they get washed and dents and scratches get fixed
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I don't take lines that I know will cause damage either but I do take lines that I know it could happen and sometimes it does. The laugh part is about the nice part with my truck.:D
 
Eye Candy is nice but function is funner. I'd rather have a balance of the two before I would have an extreme (unless i had two, then one of each:D)
 
Own one 23 years like me then say I should not build it big to be a street truck.:mad:

Not that I won't get mine drity when it is done. But it will be a mall crawler to most of ya'll.;)

It is getting restored to what it was 20 yrs ago when I drove it everyday. Have owned it sence it was brand new, and yes it was wheeled alot back then, luckly not tore up.
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When I'm done with this one I might buy a beater to wheel the s**t out of.:D

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Teck said:
Own one 23 years like me then say I should build it big to be a street truck.:mad:

Not that I won't get mine drity when it is done. But it will be a mall crawler to most of ya'll.;)

It is getting restored to what it was 20 yrs ago when I drove it everyday. Have owned it sence it was brand new, and yes it was wheeled alot back then, luckly not tore up.
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When I'm done with this one I might buy a beater to wheel the s**t out of.:D
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That has got to be one of the cleanest K5s I've ever seen. Nice rig man.

Scott
 
See thats the thing about classifying trucks, Teck has a mallcrawler that will probably see light mud and mabey light trails, just cause it looks nice doesn't mean its a mall crawler

BTW Teck I love your truck a little lower and that is what my next blazer build will be, lots and lots of nice stuff shiny paint super nice interior etc etc.

I wouldn't blame you or look down on you if you never took it wheeling, may tease you a bit but all in good fun :D
 
blazinzuk said:
See thats the thing about classifying trucks, Teck has a mallcrawler that will probably see light mud and mabey light trails, just cause it looks nice doesn't mean its a mall crawler

BTW Teck I love your truck a little lower and that is what my next blazer build will be, lots and lots of nice stuff shiny paint super nice interior etc etc.

I wouldn't blame you or look down on you if you never took it wheeling, may tease you a bit but all in good fun :D
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I did think about lowering it, but hard to find smaller tires that would fit the 14" wide weld wheels. And it just wouldn't be the same as it was back then.
 
Teck said:
Thanks, it has taken 10 months to get it to this point.
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One of the 3 K5s that I'm looking into buying is an '86 that is bright red with a black hardtop. Its got a carbed 305, 700R4, 208 TC, and 10 bolts front and rear. It needs a little bit of work, though but its nothing I can't handle.

Scott
 
Too many mall crawling suburbans in my family as it is, we don't need another :haha:

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Well since everyone is pic whoring, got to throw up my "mall crawler!" It could wheel if I needed it to! :waytogo:

Considering what it used to look like (Bottom Pic) and the time and money I have in it, I don't have the heart to wheel it hard.

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Just build it to suit your purposes and enjoy it. It's there to serve you and not the other way around.

You see lots of "hardcore wheeling" pics on the internet, because that's what get posted, not because it's the only activity going on. There are plenty of us who wheel our trucks AND drive them on the street AND keep them in good shape. A clean truck doesn't mean it never gets dirty, it just means it's been washed. A truck driving around muddy just means that the paint is being neglected. A dented truck doesn't mean the driver is hardcore, it might just mean he's careless. You don't have to destroy your truck to have fun or see a lot of cool places. The important thing is to figure out what works for you and not get your priorities from guys on the internet.
 
Maybe not eye candy to everyone but it is to me. I like the way it looks but my goal from the beginning was to build a chevy that could squeeze through the Rubicon, so the sheetmetal won't be here that much longer.

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The unwinable debate.

This is a great thread especially for people that have recently aquired a rig and are debating their future plans for it. I am still a relative noob to this site but I have owned quite a few K5s so I felt I could weigh in on this. My first was an 80 I bought in college. It wasn't a crawler but it had some nice upgrades (still paying for them in my school loan payments I am sure). We took that truck to hell and back through the mud of South Dakota and it always begged for more. It got to be so much fun that other people started buying cheap K5s just to join in the fun. At its height we had 4 people with varied Blazer generations and configurations that we would just cravan until someone got stuck. One time we got my 80 stuck to where water was running into the cab. It was in the winter and in the middle of nowhere so there we were with 2 stuck Blazers. We had to sleep overnight 5 deep with the engine running for heat. We had a nice guy to girl ratio and 4 beers to boot. We were lucky we didnt die from carbon dioxide fumes that night. Nontheless it was a great memory for all involved and a testament to the trucks versatility. Point being, after that I was a lilfetime fan after seeing what those trucks COULD do in modified form. Later on I bought a well maintained 85 for my daily driver. I then realized the comfort and road supremacy these vehicles provide in completely stock form. It was one of the only vehicles on the road right after the blizzard of 2003 in Denver. The combination of the old school weight and wheelbase continued to impress me and others as we searched for an open grocery store. Today I drive a stock 89 as my daily driver. Just when I thought it couldnt get any better...boom fuel injection. My 89 is a one owner and is almost completely restored to factory perfection and I would drive nothing else for any amount of money. I take it on road trips and am completely relaxed at 75mph with the cruise on. On the other hand I got to have a BLAST with it here in the last few days (Blizzard of the Century they are calling it here in Des Moines!) and caused no damage to any part of the truck. So my humble opinion is as others have stated...keep the nice ones nice and have a blast with the less than perfect ones. As these trucks age finding an "unmolested" well maintained variation is increasingly difficult so if you find one...keep it that way and save the $500-$1500 trucks for future trail rigs. As a current member of the "pavement only" club, I am constantly surprised at how many compliments a nice clean stock Blazer gets at the gas station. For me that far outweighs my desire (in this case) to upgrade the greatest American machine ever built.
 
mrluhman said:
This is a great thread especially for people that have recently aquired a rig and are debating their future plans for it. I am still a relative noob to this site but I have owned quite a few K5s so I felt I could weigh in on this. My first was an 80 I bought in college. It wasn't a crawler but it had some nice upgrades (still paying for them in my school loan payments I am sure). We took that truck to hell and back through the mud of South Dakota and it always begged for more. It got to be so much fun that other people started buying cheap K5s just to join in the fun. At its height we had 4 people with varied Blazer generations and configurations that we would just cravan until someone got stuck. One time we got my 80 stuck to where water was running into the cab. It was in the winter and in the middle of nowhere so there we were with 2 stuck Blazers. We had to sleep overnight 5 deep with the engine running for heat. We had a nice guy to girl ratio and 4 beers to boot. We were lucky we didnt die from carbon dioxide fumes that night. Nontheless it was a great memory for all involved and a testament to the trucks versatility. Point being, after that I was a lilfetime fan after seeing what those trucks COULD do in modified form. Later on I bought a well maintained 85 for my daily driver. I then realized the comfort and road supremacy these vehicles provide in completely stock form. It was one of the only vehicles on the road right after the blizzard of 2003 in Denver. The combination of the old school weight and wheelbase continued to impress me and others as we searched for an open grocery store. Today I drive a stock 89 as my daily driver. Just when I thought it couldnt get any better...boom fuel injection. My 89 is a one owner and is almost completely restored to factory perfection and I would drive nothing else for any amount of money. I take it on road trips and am completely relaxed at 75mph with the cruise on. On the other hand I got to have a BLAST with it here in the last few days (Blizzard of the Century they are calling it here in Des Moines!) and caused no damage to any part of the truck. So my humble opinion is as others have stated...keep the nice ones nice and have a blast with the less than perfect ones. As these trucks age finding an "unmolested" well maintained variation is increasingly difficult so if you find one...keep it that way and save the $500-$1500 trucks for future trail rigs. As a current member of the "pavement only" club, I am constantly surprised at how many compliments a nice clean stock Blazer gets at the gas station. For me that far outweighs my desire (in this case) to upgrade the greatest American machine ever built.
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What? paragraphs are your friend.
 
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