Ok, I have the car thing down pat... but I am now interested in trucks... not semi's but 60's and 70's trucks and suv's.

I am now thinking about 2 new projects... the first is a 1940-50 era chevy suburban delivery truck.

The 2nd is a 1972 chevy k5 blazer... the one with the removable top.

Basically I want to take a 1972 chevy k5 blazer and for lack of better words turn it into a daily driver with modern suspension and drivetrain.

I want to keep the truck at stock height or lower it 2 inches. Any ideas where I should start with engineered rear suspensions to replace the factory suspension? And then an engineered front suspension.

i have tried googling but i am getting a lot of crap sites with individual parts and not complete bolt on solutions. i know it exists...

I am also thinking that I would like to put in a modern 2003-2012 chevy Tahoe drivetrain... but im not sure yet.

Basically I am looking for resources for engineered parts and what is actually available.

...and I'm already taking this off topic....

Is it just me, or did such vehicles that very often seem to idle unevenly, or have loud exhausts, run totally evenly and quietly when new? Either I've forgotten that ALL CARS from bygone days were loud and obnoxious, or the cars that people restore are loud and obnoxious. Then again, my ideal of a vehicle is one that's quiet in all possible ways. (Except for modern all-electric vehicles -- they're just freakin' spooky!)

Look at one of the local bookstores for something like Truckin' magazine, maybe some of the HotRod mags as well.

Maybe you can find some custom truck websites as well.

Go to your local newstand store that has a huge magazine selection, there are magazines and parts catalogs out there that cater to this stuff.

I've always wanted to build a lowered 66 Chevy pickup.. sort of in this style:

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I had a '69 Blazer and a '72 Jimmy (GMC version). I loved those vehicles. Of course I owned them at a time when they were nowhere near 40 years old, maybe 15-20 years old. I took the '69 in the opposite direction, up about 8 inches, with some rather large tires. At the time I lived in an area with hundreds of miles of very rugged off-road trails to explore. Fun, fun vehicle. I actually still have some random parts from them in my tool chest. Nostalgia.

Is your Blazer a 2wd? I've never seen too many of them around for sale, especially around the midwest. I'm hoping you keep this thread alive with some pictures of your progress. I'd love to do a project vehicle again some day.

I have not aquired said vehicle yet.

I'm looking and they seem redily available if you want one lifted.

I'd prefer 4 wheel drive. Because ultimately the project truck will end up all wheel or 4 wheel drive.

Like the gmc Yukon or Cadillac escalade.

I'd say by fall or Christmas a truck will be in my garage being ripped apart down to a rolling chassis.

*** disregard previous statements...after some research...

actively looking for 2 wheel drive model, because of the ls3 setup i want to put in.

Contact "trucks" on the speed channel. Stacey David

My kid recently became the proud owner of a 63 Chevy impala. Hi performance small block (350), with dual quads and a chunky cam... when idling it sounds like it is going to die any second, but that is the nature of the beast with a big cam... I can almost see dollar signs spitting out of the exhaust!

(check out installing exhaust cut-outs on YouTube!)

Not his daily driver,- a weekend take his pals to the burger stand and then the beach car (with an ear to ear grin)!

It's pretty loud now, but he is hell bent on putting in electronic exhaust cut-outs, to scare old people, children and animals & in his words "So I can pull up to some spoiled - brat fraternity punk at a stop light in his daddy's BMW and open up the exhaust cut-outs while doing a mega - burn out!"

...Should I be worried?!?!

Ed

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TOO much!!!

Nice. But I don't want to slam it

yeah its ridiculous, not to mention unsafe.

call me when you have some time

That's just "laying frame".

It'll probably rise by some 12" when you want to drive down the road.

Hydraulics like that are pretty cool, and a pretty good theft deterrent too.

Problem is if it can lay frame now, it can lay frame while driving. I was in the business for a long time and most people forget about the scrub line. Cant tell you how many times I have seen lower ball joints stuck in the asphalt here in So Cal.

Not many people build in fail safe systems to prevent a potentially hazardous situation to ones self and others.

But they look good!

Why would anyone want to lower a truck? Then you can't go off road with it. I just don't get you city dwellers.....