I love this build!

 

Beautiful job on the Blazer.

 

Thanks everybody! I'm loaded up and will be headed for Ft Worth in the morning. If anyone on here is going to the GoodGuys show this weekend, stop by and say hi!

As for the Blazer, it was nice.... but for me, a little too nice. I'm not really into super high maintenance cars. They're fun to build, but taking them to shows is tough if you have to drive them there. You spend way too much time cleaning them! I literally laid on my back at the carwash once and dried off the under side of it! I'm more of a driver kind of guy, that's why my '33 has over 100k miles on it, its less maintenance..... I also got good money out of it, so that helps. I really need to move to somewhere with a little more room, and less ******* neighbors, so I need to get some cash together for that. This wagon is for sale now too, so will have a sign on it at the show. If I was independently wealthy, I would keep them all, but the reality is I am not, so, such is life!

 

At least you like building them and can share it all. You give us LS1techers a lot of ideas and use full info. For that, we thank you.

 

If I wasn’t working I’d come up just to check out the wagon in person.

 

Made it to the show and back with no problems at all. At one point I was following a guy and happened to look at the GPS and it said 89mph! figured if there was a cop ahead, hopefully he would get stopped first. I took a pic, but its kind of dark, but if you look close you can see it says 88mph.




Made it to Texas....



Rando pic out of the hotel window.



A couple of pics at Texas Motor Speedway, just because....





Track cruise. They don't let you have as much fun on these as they used to. Understandable though, since while I was waiting in line a guy in an early 60's Chevy truck hit the wall!



Then about noon on Sunday, stopped for lunch and hit the road for the 8 hour drive home.



Somewhere in the Flint Hills of Kansas is a scenic overlook at something called the Bazaar cattle pins. I have been by it many times but this time decided to stop and see what it was. Not much! Apparently this is Kansas's idea of "scenic"

 

I bet your face muscles are all sore from the constant SMILE you had to have! Looks like you had a blast! Glad all went well!
BTW, any idea what your MPG was on the trip?

 

Curious, what are you asking for the wagon?

 

Yeah, it was a good time! I always check my mileage on road trips, so I do know my mileage. I got between 16 and 18mpg, which isn't bad considering I really never kept my foot out of it! I did 80-85mph a lot of the way!

PM sent

 

YEah, I would like to know too. Bad azz wagon

 

Great build E'...what is the next project?

 

I've been sitting on enough parts to build another '72 short bed for years, so I'm going to build that. Tired of looking at the frame in my driveway which has been there since before I bought the rusty green and white truck, and I swapped that one 5 1/2 years ago..... Damn, where does the time go?

 

First time seeing this, it’s just perfect! Interested in a trade for 39 ford pick up with explorer 5.0 drivetrain?

 

Hope you post that build on here as it goes along...your attention to the little details is next to none...can't wait to see it progress.

(P.S. Good luck on the sale!)

 

Just read this entire build and really enjoyed it. Nice long roof.

 

oh man I cant wait to see your 72 c10 build

 

Last time we spoke he showed me some pictures and it was getting close but I don't believe he made a topic for it.

 

Thanks!

Yeah, I guess I need to make a thread on it, and have been taking pics with that in mind, but keep thinking it's just a rehash of the blue truck and the rusty green truck. Well, that and I never seem to have the time needed to dedicate to it, but will try to at some point. I went like gangbusters on it all summer trying to get it done real fast, but when I realized I wasn't going to make that deadline I slowed way down, no reason to kill myself at this point and truthfully wish I hadn't pissed off the whole summer on it! LOL!

 

I like having a deadline but I like to make them reasonable. You had a crazy timeline with this truck and accomplished a lot. I've done the TV build schedule before with mixed results and usually (even if the car was running at the end) feel like it wasn't worth it or as fun as it should have been. The problem with the short timelines is any small thing goes wrong and it has the potential to derail the entire project. The slower pace is more fun to me and I get to enjoy the build stress free.

 

hehe timelines man. I have found that breaking the build down into chunks and giving each a rough deadline to get 100% done

if something only gets to 95% because you are waiting on a part, or need to finish something else first because it makes more sense order-of-assembly-wise well so be it


but my problem is that any given project will expand to fill as much time as you give it. sure you can do an axle swap in 6 months, but it wont be significantly better than the one down in 3 weeks.

just my .02 though