Vehicle Description
This 1972 Blazer Resto-Mod is the product of a frame-off rotisserie
restoration with every nut and bolt replaced. It has a custom
engine bay that features hundreds of hours of custom sheet metal
work. Everything is bead-rolled, stamped, slip-rolled, and
hand-formed to create a modern engine bay with panels that cover
the entire firewall, hood and engine. Powering this Blazer is a
Whipple-supercharged 350ci 8-cylinder engine paired with a 4L80E
automatic transmission and 205 transfer case. A separate
intercooler and recovery tank were built out of aluminum and
TIG-welded for the Whipple supercharger cooling system. The frame
and body were both taken down to bare metal, with the frame getting
epoxy primed followed by a single-stage PPG paint designed for
extreme chip resistance. The body was epoxy-primed, the body worked
and refinished in water-based PPG and the whole underside has a
chip guard coat sprayed and finished in a gloss clear. Dual FOX
shocks were installed in the front with a FOX reservoir shock used
in the steering stabilizer and single FOX shocks in the rear. The
axle housings were painted the same as the frame. The Blazer is
equipped with 4-wheel disc brakes, new 3:73 gears, axles and hubs,
4-inch lift, and 35-inch tires on 17-inch Black Rhino wheels. The
wheel wells were opened to fit a bigger tire and even out the
wheelbase look, then molded back into the factory body lines. On
the inside, it sports a black leather interior with a black and
white houndstooth pattern, custom-made door panels and inner bed
panels, and the rear interior wheel wells are wrapped in leather
with a dual stitch pattern. It also features interior dome lights
installed under the rearview mirror and in the rear interior bed
panels triggered by door actuators. Rounding out the look of are
billet hood hinges, chrome billet grille, chrome front and rear
bumpers with the rear backup camera installed into the rear bumper.
