CHEVROLET K5 BLAZER 4x4 CUSTOM

CHEVROLET K5 BLAZER 4x4 CUSTOM.
The body off, one of a kind custom restoration of this 1976 454 Chevy Blazer Off Road Custom Convertible, is one of the best I have seen.
The custom fabrication work on pretty much the complete body and chassis is so good it looks factory.
It's only when you park it next to a stock Blazer that the amount of work completed is outstanding.
It started as a 1976 Chevrolet K5 Blazer, below is a list of most of the modifications completed by Tim.
It was rebuilt 12 years ago as a 74
Full Convertible and ‘Bob Tailed’
Coil sprung Galvanized Chassis
454 motor (7.4 litre)
Holley 750 Carb - Edelbrock intake and Headman Headers
4 speed manual gear box and transfer box
12 bolt rear end with Diff Lock
Dana 44 front, up-graded shafts and gears (military)
Handmade door skins, tail gate and complete rear tub
New firewall and tubular windscreen surround
New front wings and bonnet (Specialist Autoparts)
Galvanized inner wings and core support
Full Roll Cage
Tucked in Stainless Steel bumpers with Land rover lights
Handmade Stainless Steel quarter light frames, upper tail-gate, wheel nuts and hubs, bed capping, exhaust.
Stainless Steel Brake hoses and fuel lines (Speedflow Products) speedflow.co.uk/
Sourced from Specialist Autoparts, all new brake callipers, servo, master cylinder, rear cylinders, Engine upgrades, wings and bonnet.
Prop shafts - H J Chard
Trim & Exhaust silencer - Customville
Service parts - US Automotive
Hose and fittings - Speedflow Products
Silicon hosing - Think Automotive
Axle parts - Hauser Racing
Off Road parts - Devon 4x4
Landrover parts - Paddocks
Carb parts - Engine Data Analysis (EDA)
Tim says he has spent the last 10 years making it ‘liveable’
Fitted balance pipe and extra silencers
Fitted smaller jets
Lowered 2” on springs and smaller tyres
Blacked out some of the Stainless
Fitted sound proofing and rubber matting.
The K5 Blazer and Jimmy had "full convertible" removable tops until 1975. The Chevrolet K5 Blazer is a full-size sport-utility vehicle that was built by General Motors. GM's smallest full-size SUV, it is part of the Chevrolet C/K truck family. Introduced to the Chevrolet line for the 1969 model year, the K5 Blazer was replaced for 1995 by the Chevrolet Tahoe. The third generation was simply called "Chevrolet Blazer", without the K5 name. In 1970, GMC introduced its own model of the truck, called the Jimmy, which was discontinued in 1991 and replaced by the Yukon. The "Jimmy" name was chosen to reflect how GM may sound in a similar manner to how Jeep was thought to be a pronunciation of GP in the competing market.[citation needed] Both were short-wheelbase trucks and available with either rear- or four-wheel drive.
The K5 Blazer and Jimmy had "full convertible" removable tops until 1975. For 1976, GM introduced a half-cab design that was less prone to leaks and slightly safer in a roll-over. These half cabs had the convertible top begin a few inches behind the driver/passenger doors and run back to the tailgate. For 1976, GM introduced a half-cab design that was less prone to leaks and slightly safer in a roll-over.
Although rear-wheel drive Blazers were manufactured until 1982, the majority sold were four-wheel drive.
Until 1975, the K5 had a removable convertible top. In 1976, a half-cab design was introduced and used until 1991.
1973-1980 Blazers used the gear-driven part-time NP-205 transfer case (mostly mated to the SM465 manual transmission and some TH350s) or the chain-driven full-time NP-203 transfer case (mated to the TH350 automatic) and DANA-44 front/12-bolt rear axle combination through 1980. Starting in 1981 used the chain-driven NP208 transfer case (NP241 after 1988) with front 10-bolt/rear 10-bolt axle combinations until 1991. There is an overlap of 12-bolt rears into the early '80s, while the 10-bolt front axle was phased into production in the late 1970s.
Around 1976, a prototype K5 Blazer was used as a testbed for a military CUCV vehicle built by Vic Hickey, father of the HUMVEE. Between 1983 and 1987, what is known as the M1009 CUCV was the production militarized version of the civilian K5. The differences are the lack of an air conditioner, an additional leaf spring in the suspension, a hybrid 12/24 V electrical system (described in detail below), blackout headlights, front mounted brush guard, a rifle rack, and special paint jobs. A majority of them are painted olive drab green or in the woodland camouflage pattern, though some vehicles that saw desert use were painted tan.