10-20-2014, 09:50 PM | #51 |
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Front seat belts mocked in. Cupholder console, so no floppys. My wife's opinion about the safety of this vehicle was unmoved by this pic.
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10-20-2014, 09:55 PM | #52 |
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The little eyebrow drain on the driver's side drip rail was ground away(along with about an eighth of an inch of the top of the drip in that section) at some point in the past...no doubt when the hideous repair to that seam was previously done. Thanks Dwayne for this section...now we can graft this part of the drip back in.
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10-20-2014, 10:10 PM | #53 |
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Looks perfectly safe to me! Actually for 1970 that was probably considered overkill.
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10-21-2014, 08:55 PM | #54 |
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10-21-2014, 08:59 PM | #55 |
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Started coming apart again. Body scheduled to come off tomorrow and frame work to begin.
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10-22-2014, 09:27 PM | #56 |
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Well...it's official.
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10-22-2014, 09:31 PM | #57 |
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...Always with the surprises!
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10-22-2014, 09:34 PM | #58 |
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Super Pro install on the hitch...40 man hours budgeted for it's removal.
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10-22-2014, 09:36 PM | #59 |
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More fine frame fixins.
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10-22-2014, 09:42 PM | #60 |
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A lot of effort already expended...who needs a stinking rotisserie?
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10-22-2014, 10:05 PM | #61 |
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Man that's some messed up frame rails, but I would imagine you can fix it. Just gonna take up a bunch of time.
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10-22-2014, 10:06 PM | #62 |
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I love this stuff.
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10-22-2014, 10:14 PM | #63 |
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Gotta fix it...when we're done, I want something to be left from the original truck. Let's face it, since I'm married to her...she's got a lot of new, the bow tie will be blue, it's got a lot of stuff borrowed from other trucks...gotta have something old.
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10-22-2014, 10:53 PM | #64 |
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that's the spirit.
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10-23-2014, 07:54 PM | #65 |
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More teardown, and a fun surprise for a change...an easter egg under the dash pad.
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10-23-2014, 08:05 PM | #66 |
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For those of you hard core aficionados out there, you'll know what this pic means...YES, this is the one of one 1970 Blazer that was the test mule for the prototype 350 that became Chevrolet's workhorse for years 77-79. Though there are no actual period photos, luckily we have a few engineer death bed confessions on a cassette tape on top of the clearly vintage 1970 grease. Russo and Steele have not stopped calling me since the discovery.
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10-29-2014, 10:21 PM | #67 |
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Sometimes the mail is more fun to open than other times.
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10-29-2014, 10:25 PM | #68 |
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Back from the machine shop...and about 5 pounds lighter.
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10-29-2014, 10:25 PM | #69 |
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Nice, it's sad that we get so excited over the mail. But they look so good!
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10-29-2014, 10:28 PM | #70 |
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Running out of bolts to turn....final clean up and repairs and then off to powder coater tomorrow.
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10-29-2014, 10:29 PM | #71 |
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Good deal!
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10-30-2014, 10:35 AM | #72 |
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what is your assessment of the reproduction rear panels? Are those the panels Southern Kentucky is offering? $700 each is a handfull.
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They're not a skin, it's the complete side. It has all the structure and they pre-fit pretty easily. The biggest problem we had with reproduction parts were a lower tailgate scrub (that took a bit to work out, maybe more yet) and mating the bed patch with the front of the rear deck. At the time the Blazer deck wasn't available and the bed patch was narrower at the wheel wells than the original. ...in short, I hate to give any reproduction sheet metal part a glowing endorsement because they can be so variable from case to case. But these worked very well for us...and were ultimately cheaper and less time consuming than extensive grafting.
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thanks for the feedback. i'm gonna need a set as well but was hesitant because they haven't been on the market that long. You're the first that i've seen use them. Your progress is great. definitely subscribed!
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Can't wait to see some more pictures
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