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1LowToy

10-22-2010 07:41 PM

Short bed to Blazer?

Here's the question. Will a Blazer body fit onto a short bed 2WD frame?

Reason I'm asking is I may have the oportunity to pick up a 73 short bed with a real poor body. I know there are numerous Blazers tht are parked due to smog problems here in California. Maybe I can put the two together and have a 2wd Blazer with a smog free chassis:devil:?

baclay9

10-22-2010 07:59 PM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

It would be titled whatever year the body was. It carries the vin.
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1LowToy

10-22-2010 08:11 PM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

Quote:

Originally Posted by baclay9 (Post 4254812)

It would be titled whatever year the body was. It carries the vin.
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Things are done a little different here.

f.monroe

10-22-2010 08:30 PM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1LowToy (Post 4254778)

Here's the question. Will a Blazer body fit onto a short bed 2WD frame?

The floor pans are different between trucks and blazers. The wheel bse is shorter on a Blazer than a short wheel base truck also so I say no it wont work .
Not without cutting the frame at the minimum.
Frank

menace121978

10-22-2010 09:50 PM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1LowToy (Post 4254834)

Things are done a little different here.

maybe you could explain this statement in a little more detail

LiveAnimals

10-23-2010 12:14 AM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

Quote:

Originally Posted by menace121978 (Post 4254996)

maybe you could explain this statement in a little more detail

A lot of things may be different in CA. A vehicle is always registered according to the vin on the body.

slider

10-25-2010 01:16 AM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

my truck started out as an 85, cracked frame, ment a frame replacement with a 75 frame and title, using the 85 body and bed, dmv titled it as a 75 because of the frame numbers

menace121978

10-25-2010 07:42 AM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

wow! i've never heard of that... did you have to swap vin tags on the cab then?

sandnuriz

10-25-2010 10:59 AM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

Quote:

Originally Posted by slider (Post 4258714)

my truck started out as an 85, cracked frame, ment a frame replacement with a 75 frame and title, using the 85 body and bed, dmv titled it as a 75 because of the frame numbers

Wow that's great

Quote:

Originally Posted by menace121978 (Post 4258862)

wow! i've never heard of that... did you have to swap vin tags on the cab then?

Please let us know

slider

10-25-2010 11:09 AM

Re: Short bed to Blazer?

yes, the 75 vin tag is in the door, and the 85 vin is gone, the PO did the swap, he's a friend of mine, I know it went to the dmv for verification, and they mached the vin to the frame. and the frame numbers were the key to it being titled as a 75.

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