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As my painter buddy says, "It's only paint!" It's easy for them to say that since they can fix it in a weekend, huh?

It does look good with the right wheels and hunkered down, though.

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for sure the first thing i did was get the billet wheels on unreal the difference
i noticed i'm not as scared to work on the rest of the truck now as i thought i would be since it needs another paint job anyways :lol: still damn!

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In the immortal words of Forrest Gump "sh¡t happens".......it sucks but soon it will all be just a bad memory......bad azz rig....:metal:

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As bad as that looks and it does really suck that it happened it could have been worse .I had a friend (gone now) that had his new tow rig ,enclosed trailer and $200,000 Chevelle convertible destroyed when a tractor trailer ran him off the road .But Im lookin g forward to seeing your rig good as new again soon.

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~ thanks for the excellent words of wisdom and compliments guys ~
proceeding onto finishing the exhaust dumps and getting bumpers and lights on this week,
its a race to get as much done as poss to get the safety done and on the road.
Once the snow clears enough to get on driveway here i'll try to post better pictures
to show the real blue in better light as it looks pretty dark in the shop
kris

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congrats on getting it home
bummer about the damage
i have followed your build as i was looking to do some sort of top work also
decided to go with a bimini style top ...its in the works
would like to meet if you want as i am in sherwood park and i know jason too
keep on plugging away summer is almost here

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Hey Kevin, for sure we will have to meet up some time.
great to see another Blazer close by, look forward to seeing the bimini top
idea you came up with
Kris

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Hey got the blaze out today for a dose of vitiman D and shot some pictures..
This will be cruise height aired up.. Working on finishing up the electrical work and then onto getting the interior seats in and then windshield.

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For some reason I have to add these pictures separately ..


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Looks great ,cant wait to see more .

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Eye Candy!

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thanks!
I'm really enjoying the different look it gives off every time I add some more chrome or hardware.. New door locks on order and grill trims...
I had new grill trim for 6 years in packaging but when I went to finally mount them they were bent bad just from shipping and being handled. One of the major downfalls of a flimsy chrome repo part and they are expensive to replace!

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Really looks good.

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Saw this on fb this morning...

https://classics.autotrader.com/clas...azer/100765199

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Wow. That's crazy money. Pretty cool what they did to it. But good luck on selling it.

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The rear wheel being so far forward would drive me nuts...

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Yeah they should have at least centered the rear axle. With dropping it if they didn't lengthen the control Arms is why it came farther forward. But I'm not a 2 wheel Drive guy.

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That blaze is def different. One of the most modded interiors ive ever seen..
NOthing new to report on mine prob till fall, kindof on the shelf until other projects for summer get completed but look forward to hitting it hard this fall

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I will be waiting ,love me a vert.

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:)

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looks awesome!!!

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well its been a while since ive posted.... again.. i 'm still on it though!
got it registered this week after 7 years and 9 months haha.
interior will be completed this winter and the top of course will finally see fabric!

Heres a clip from today, she gets a new windshield tomorrow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNQsDG0zxBg

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and a slow roll off...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h6UxpWUdNI

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im tuned in! thanks for the update!!
i need to get back on mine!!
looks awesome!

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Sounds great ,looks great too .

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Windshield is in!
Happy it fits after I put 72 Chevelle windshield header section in with 2 pieced together
Put on 59 miles already too , it's crazy the rush driving this finally after all these years
working on it. To everyone that has a project that seems to be taking a while or won't get done it will! Have lots to do on this blaze still but just happy to burn some fuel

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Congrats! It looks good!

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Congratulations on the progress and your sticktoitiveness projects can really way on you. The blazer is turning out awesome can,t wait to see the interior. :metal::metal::metal::metal:

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Thanks guys!
Took it to get an alignment the other day and the guy (an avid old car/rod guy) wasn't too excited to work on it as he claims he has guys coming back to him with tire wear issues all the time (on lowered stuff) .. That is an obvious to me esp if you are running bags. I managed to warm him up a bit, just told him i am realistic with getting camber and toe close, and once he saw the access to get to the upper control arms to shim he seemed satisfied.. now we will see how it turns out

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Snow is here to stay.. started on blazer again.
Got my C/5 emblems last week and mounted them, very happy with quality.
Had to take out inner fenders to get rear nuts on 3 mounting points .

Last picture is a week before I put it away for the winter, Put on approx. 350 miles this summer doing a shake-down since driving it again..
Hope to work on top soon and finally get that going...

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Who makes the C/5 emblem, That's so cool. Your Blazer is off the chart great.

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Yeah I need a k20 emblem since mine is 3/4 ton now.
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Hey thanks!

Heres the thread of the emblem designer.. Hes hard to get ahold of and busy but email him to get results.. Took about a year to get mine

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...=701118&page=7

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Awesome!!!!

Next summer you and the family will have to hit a few shows with Quinn and I. It’d be a blast.

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That would be great fun. Have to get this interior finished

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Did I miss the ending of this build? The videos posted in the thread dont work anymore.

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Hey guys
Hi CG, no you did not miss the ending of this build, I have not updated it in a while mainly because i had a change of interest with the top of which i sat on for over a year before making a tough decision of which direction i was going to go.My interest seemed to change when i chipped the paint bringing it home from the bodyshop 5 years ago. i knew i had to get it painted again and at that point i started thinking that i was not going to like the way the top was going to look when it was down with the cover etc and missed the look of the bed rails and cleaner look that it could be. I started to ponder that this was going to be hundreds of hours of work to get it to the completed stage yet and i was starting to loose interest after 8/9 years of working on it. after letting it soak , i decided to forgo the completion of the top, and removed the components inside and finished the blazer off with full boxed in bed rails in the back and nice clean interior panels which i am very happy with how it turned out.I just got it painted again this past fall and have been working hard on it all winter to finish the interior off and the rest of the must dos to get it to the mainly completed stage and get it appraised properly.

After many dollars and hundreds of hours working on the top it is very hard for me to report back that i dont have a finished product to show after the work put into it. I so far feel like i made the right decision in the path i took in the end, next winter i plan on using as many of the components as i can to do a soft 1/2 cab top that will just go on and off manually so i hope to have a cool product there in the end to show.

I hope to post some new pictures of the blazer soon when we can find a nice spot to take some when the weather warms up here.

Thank you to all the members that helped and encouraged me over the many years of posts to help me proceed with the top idea and keep me motivated.

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Seemed like you were having fun trying to make it all work. So as long as that's what it was my thinking is it wasn't wasted (well cept for the money haha). The thread is a good read.

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Lets face it, they all look better top less.......