C10 Long Bed to K5 Jimmy / Blazer Build - Patina 

💯%

Please record this build!

Thanks man! They are just factory style parts. Stock blazer floor, rocker boxes, upper windshield area, etc. 👍

Clearly no parts necessary if you watched the video. 🤦‍♂️ except fabrication skills

​@Tyler Seabook you would need the topper at the very least

@@tylerseabook9423 so you wouldn't need a topper or the blazer roof bracing parts so the top would fit correctly. If you're spending the time why not use the correct parts to make it as close as possible? I guess if you wanted to redneck it sure but if you want a quality build like PP, do it right. Clearly, There are two kinds of builder/fabricators buddy.

@@SWFabrication. Clearly if your doing this conversion you would have a topper to start. Again the only thing needed. As my original comment to the where can these parts be had 🤦‍♂️

💯%

Yes, we know.... we just get in the habit of saying Blazer. Kind of like people call a tissue, Kleenex. We are very aware of the differences and a Blazer is a Chevy, and Jimmy is a GMC.

I wanted a truck in good shape, so I would have a Blazer in good shape as well. Its all original sheetmetal, expect for the new Blazer Floor, which the truck floor was junk anyways. Only thing tossed was back panel of the cab, bed floor and rear rockers.... all else is there.

It has original rocker boxes installed and a stock blazer floor.

@@AZProPerformance Would love to see those boxes behind the rocker panels. took me forever to make a set from scratch back 20 years ago when I built my Jimmy.

Thanks and appreciate that! It's a factory GM top... no way to lower it. All in proportion, as it sits on a Blazer frame with all factory mounts.

We plan on doing a few as the build moves along.

@@AZProPerformance would really like to see detailed videos on the process in this build. Awesome content guys👍

We didn’t intend this video to be a “how-to”, but rather introduce and show what we have been doing so far with this new project.

The Chrome Guy in Phoenix has the reproduction ones.

​@Pro Performance does he have a website?

Yes, I have a new top on it now.... I got it from the "Chrome Guy" in Phoenix, AZ

Thanks! The video wasn't designed as a how-to, so we didn't show a ton of that, and rather a general overview. They will be finished similar to a Blazer and boxed in. Yes, Blazer sheetmetal is available, such as the floor, windshield header, rocker boxes, and intermediate from tub to floor.

Where did you guys find the top?

@@ericrombough174 Searches classified ads... but it now has a new top. The Chrome Guy in Phoenix, AZ is selling new ones.

Why?

@Dundas we had been trying to sell the blazer for years to buy a truck, so we finally just converted it

🤣

We are located in Mesa, AZ, but don't offer to cut them down unfortunately. Just did this one.

Thanks for watching. I really didn't want a headboard that looked like a back of a cab. The tailgate is still being used on the Jimmy.

GM said otherwise... they have K5 tags. The C/K designations didn't apply to the 69-72 Blazer / Jimmy.

Hope that this will clear things up a bit. This is borrowed straight from Wikipedia. The original K5 Blazer was built on the K10 pickup truck platform with a wheelbase shortened to 104 in (2,600 mm), designed and marketed to compete with the International Harvester Scout (which had been introduced in 1960 for the 1961 model year) and the Ford Bronco (1965/66) utility vehicles.[2][4] The Scout and Bronco were originally aimed at the Jeep CJ series and consequently all three vehicles were much smaller than the K5 Blazer. Because the Blazer was developed from a shortened pickup truck, this innovation both increased interior space and lowered the cost of production by using a shared platform.[5] The Blazer quickly became popular. For the first time, it married the off-road capabilities of competing utility vehicles with "luxury" features like air conditioning and automatic transmissions that routinely were available on pickup trucks. By 1970, the Blazer was already outselling both of its older rivals. Ford, Dodge, and even Jeep would counter with similar shortened full-size pickups, including the Dodge Ramcharger and Jeep Cherokee, both introduced in 1974, and the revised Ford Bronco (1978).[5]

I thought the same thing when I saw the new wheels on it, but hey dude's building his truck to his liking. It's the front wheel that's making the truck have a goofy looking stance. If the front wheels had a 3" to 4" lip it would look like a totally different truck with a mean and aggressive stance as opposed to the meek&mild look it has now. The lip on the rear wheels is right. But hey I'm not hating on the man, I give it up to him for building it from the ground up. Using a bad ass frame and the engine combo going into it this thing going to be a beast with some ugly front wheels .😉😉😉😉😁

Thanks! I know, we all get used to saying Blazer, but we obviously know its a Jimmy. It's like calling all tissues a kleenex. lol

@@AZProPerformance just giving you a hard time. I love GMC Jimmie’s, so feel like you’re selling yourselves short calling it a blazer… haha

Its a shorter wheelbase than a short bed.

Nope... just replaced with another one! lol. I personally don't consider a long bed an american classic, plus they are dime a dozen.

To my findings, they never followed that for the Jimmy / Blazers. Ever seen a C5 blazer badge?