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Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
It's been on ebay a couple times in the past 4-5 years. I think at one point they had a buy it now at something like $100K
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Yuk...
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
I don`t think it`s quite a GM prototype.Vic Hickey designed and built it.He was an off-road pioneer in the fledgling years of recreational off-road enthusiasm.He was looking to market these as "Trailblazers".GM bought it up to snuff it,most likely.The Corvair had just come out,also.
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
The only resemblance to a Blazer is the name "TrailBlazer" that GM bought the rights to.Must have taking some imagination to link anything else to the Blazer.
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
I agree with these guys, that physically there's nothing in common.
In a sense, though, can it perhaps be considered a "prototype" in terms of providing the seed of the idea? I can imagine the GM engineers looking at it and saying "Okay, now how do we best take this and turn it into a product" and coming up with the Blazer. Brian |
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Looks like a cross between a Jeep and Beetle.
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
I posted a thread abut this same "prototype" back in '03 and everybody agreed that it was something made to look like a blazer, but not a blazer, this is what the real prototype looked like:
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
And this is what a '68 Blazer looked like:
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Chevy fatman,
Great pics. Do you know if that first one has a corvair motor, as the first is said to have had? SLIMJIM
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
SLIMJIM, I don't have any info in what kinda motor that 1st one had, but I seriously doubt it had a corvair one.
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
That first prototype(b&w)looks more like a Bronco than a Blazer:wheels,wheel openings,door opening,w/s,everything but the 1/2 top.Maybe GM bought the Blazer name from Ford after Ford realized the name Bronco would go well with it`s on-road counterpart Mustang.Then GM sold the name Trailblazer to Chrysler for their Plymouth utility vehicle.I wish someone would buy my name.lol
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Someone is smoking dope in that story that so called blazer is ugler that a vw thing...
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Where did you find the photo of the red Blazer on the flat bed truck, I would like to get a good copy of that photo, I have several original vic Hickey Trucks, Thanks Ron
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Here is a photo of the first two Race Blazers Hickey Built
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Here is a few photos of my truck Hickey he built a year before he built the Blazer, After racing this truck he needed to build a race truck to run with the Bronco's, The first prototype Blazer was a cut and shortened C-10 truck truck like my truck, I have a lot of info if you want more, Ron
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Have you started building the race blazer yet?
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
If you look close at the "68 blazer" it has decaling that matches the Hickey Blazers (the decals at the forward side of the hood, rollbar, etc.) I think it is a Hickey blazer that hasn't been fully Hickeyized yet. The flatbed truck even has the "OD" sticker on it that the Hickey Blazers have on them.
Thanks, Rg
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
Did anyone save the original article on the prototype Blaazer? Looks like it's long gone now.
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Re: Documented prototype of what evolved into the Chevrolet Blazer, SAY WHAT?
wow the back end looks alot like the honda ridgeline
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