I love the type like yours. My favorite body style out most Chevrolet trucks. Any photos would be great.
Mine is a 79 and I’d love to pull a full body restoration but I’m just one guy and have to accommodate a job, spouse, 11 year old GSD, and some bouts of aggravating periodically occurring health problems.
The 79 had been sitting in a barn before I ran across it.
My plan is to get it cleaned up as best I can and knock down as much rust as possible. I know I won’t get it all. Maybe one day it will see a body shop for a real paint job and the sheet metal stuff that I’m not really versed in.
I’d frame off restore my CJs before I’d do it to the blazer.
No matter what I plan on keeping the K5. I can fix 95% of the problems myself. 350 V8s and TH350 transmissions are plentiful enough and would replace both if either failed.
It has full time 4WD though.
I’ve got the hood, fenders, and bumpers off. The fenderwells were so eaten up.
There is a slight bit of lifter chatter on startup on one cylinder but shuts up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeqaLcAElp0&t=6s
I’m rebuilding my smugmug photo/video galleries and have a few K5 photos there. There are plenty more.
I drove up to Bend, Oregon to pick up this 69.
The guy who had this vehicle was a hunter who would go off into the woods
for weeks. He had added extra gas tanks and a water tank in the back.
When something would break down he would improvise and make whatever
parts he had work. I tried to work on rear differential myself but hit a
massive wall. The guy i took it to said it had parts from all sorts of
different vehicles. Had to have it completely rebuilt. I too have been
working on it myself but 2 years later I was still working on it. My uncle
has a 68 camero he’s been working on for 20 years. I didn’t want that
to happen to me. I want to enjoy this blazer with my 12 year old
daughter. So i worked many extra hours and saved and saved until I had
enough to take it to my local classic body shop. That was 6 months ago.