New Blazer in WA State

[jaros44sr]

Originally Posted by C.I.Blazer

I think one of the interesting aspects of this whole process is trying to decipher what has been done to these almost 50 year old cars along the way. That doesn't look right? What the heck is this? Who did this and why? Especially a vehicle like this one that is by no means a stock, original condition example. I wish I knew more about the history of this truck.

According to the SPID the truck originally came with a 350 and 4 speed manual transmission. Sometime prior to the person I bought it from, it was swapped for a TH350. The PO told me that he just had the tranny rebuilt and that the shop that performed the work told him that it had been "built" and "upgraded" like a high performance tranny would be for racing. Don't know exactly what that means. I do know that it has an old B&M ratchet shifter in it (i had never even heard of a ratchet shifter before). Not sure if this was done for fun or for some specific application.

Last night I got another interesting surprise. I was able to get a pic of the casting number on the block and it appears that it is a 400 and not a 350. I assumed they swapped the tranny and transfer case onto the stock engine, but now it appears they must have just put in a while new drive train.

Any thoughts on the 400? From a bit of research sounds like some like it and some don't. I just want a good vehicle for street and mild off road driving so it probably doesn't matter too much to me just good to know.

Parts are available to go back to original on the for sale section, see shifters there all the time