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04-11-2009, 08:26 AM | #1 |
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Three boys here...24..20..&11.
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04-11-2009, 09:29 PM | #2 |
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Wasn't this a Blazer thread? HaHaHa! Joking of course!
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04-11-2009, 09:54 PM | #3 |
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Dang, a lot of kids here. I'm 24 so i'm probably still considered a kid by some of you.
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04-12-2009, 07:28 AM | #4 |
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04-12-2009, 07:43 AM | #5 |
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Yep, trucks & life...all together.
I'm dysfunctional, I spread mine out. Girl 20, Boy 10
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04-12-2009, 01:23 PM | #6 |
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It's a shame that you're selling it. I'm sure it was a tough choice. I totally understand the part about it killing you just sitting there. I've sold a few toys for the same reason.
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04-12-2009, 02:28 PM | #7 | |
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Naw...not a shame at all, got a lot of seat time, learned a ton and dialed in my off road skills. This build (well, pages back anyway) will suffice just fine, it'll be a very capable wheeler and I get to drive it around dirt roads & surface streets when ever I want too. My first interest in wheeling was more about destination trips anyway. |
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04-12-2009, 03:05 PM | #8 | |
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Ditto, so far all my rigs are stock and i'm surprised as hell what you can do with a bone stock 4x4. It's also alot of fun relying on skill rather than a built up rig to get you places. My stock 06 Jeep Unlimited has taken me all kinds of places only limited by ground clearance. I've passed many a lifted 4x4's in it and I love the looks I get.
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04-13-2009, 09:17 AM | #9 |
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I've got a windshield if you need to offload that big bucket of parts!!!
I'd like to see the bobbed rear end with the fleetsides..
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Hey vtblazer, maybe I missed it ...but are you going to run 14" travel rear shocks? If so how are you going to mount them?
Is there and upper crossmember/shock mount that you know of? Thanks, |
04-26-2009, 05:20 PM | #11 |
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04-27-2009, 01:30 AM | #12 |
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Sorry Kurt but I've been slackin' a little. Had to go back 3 pages to find my last post and then catch up on my reading. I won't even start in on my kids, grand kids, and yep even great grand kids. Now I feel old. Later.
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05-26-2009, 10:50 PM | #13 |
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Sooo, how 'bout that blazer build? Hmmmm?
Oh yeah, seems to be a new requirement on this thread. G, B, G, 12, 13, 17
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This build has taken a backseat to the kids & family responsibilities for the time being, with good weather here it's more about spending time with the kids and their interests with the current economy it's more about making sure the bills get paid. With three of your own, I'm guessing maybe your on the same page. |
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05-27-2009, 10:34 PM | #15 | |
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I am doing more work on my truck than I have in years. The funny thing is, I've only spent a few hundred bucks and I've been selling unwanted or un-needed stuff to off set it. Both my girls play softball, one of them is on 3 rosters. My summers have been spent hauling them around for years. My winters are spent hauling the son around for hockey. It seems like it never ends, but then when the season is over, you feel a liitle lost and restless. My oldest just got Academic All-conference today as a junior. The wife just asks whos kid is this. Have fun with the kids. The trucks aren't going anywhere.
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It's all about lifes priorities.
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05-27-2009, 07:46 AM | #17 |
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Kurt,
You need an NOS driver door for this project? I'm picking it up next month... when's the next road trip to PA?
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Nothing for P.A. on the radar right now, actually trying to sell the crawler currently but the Tenn. trip is coming up. (hopefully I can still make it) You going to that? |
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05-27-2009, 08:07 AM | #19 |
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Hmmmm..... I still need a set of doors!
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Tenn trip? details?
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Thought for sure you knew...
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=313400 |
05-27-2009, 05:17 PM | #22 |
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TN trip would be great but takes a tanker of GAS with the K/5 big block... Mike you wanna ride in a 95 ImpalaSS??? you are on the way .. near 15/ 81 right?
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3rd weekend in July.. dang, i'll pass you guys on the road. I'll be in Indy the week of the 6th, then Hunstville on the 13th and back to PA just before that weekend. I'll have the wife and kids so I can't see her being excited enough to add another 2 days to the end of the trip! If you guys happen to come through Harrisburg, PA let me know though. Maybe we can link up for a fuel stop or I can show off some flight simulators.
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Any progress on the build lately. Two girls here 10, 11. Only man in the house is crazy. lol
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Any progress on the build lately. Two girls here 10, 11. Only man in the house is crazy. lol
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