It seems like there’s been a lot of strange car creations popping up all over the place for sale lately. I’m not sure if it’s due to the popularity of TV “reality” car shows or if it’s because people are just getting bored and decide to get creative in their free time, but we’ve seen a lot of stuff like this 2002 Chevy Blazer we are about to show you making its way to Craigslist and eBay in the recent months. Without further ado, let’s see what this lovely example of home-built ingenuity has to offer!
From this angle, it’s clear that the goal was to get this Blazer a mid-50’s Ford truck vibe. And honestly, it’s not that bad! Some might even see it as an improvement on the late S10’s face. The windshield surround would need some work (maybe some chrome trim?) to pull this off, because it looks far too modern for the rest of it. And is that red oxide primer or clay all over the exterior?
If the front end didn’t scare you off, the side profile might! In the side panels, which are presumably constructed of body filler or maybe modeling clay, you have a single porthole on each side. The portholes are probably a reference to the hard top fitted to the 1955-57 Ford Thunderbird, but these ones look like they were ripped off of your neighbor’s cabin cruiser or that weird guy down the street’s broken down custom van. Maybe the guy found a rare 70’s Pinto Street Van at the junkyard and sawzalled these out? Wherever they came from, they don’t look too good here mounted to these Bondo buttresses.
Of course this thing has Corvette taillights hacked into it’s makeshift tail panel. Did you expect anything else? I honestly have no idea what that “bed” is made from, but it looks like it was hand carved from a larger slab of whatever it was. I don’t think that getting wet was in the plans for this vehicle, because there does not appear to be any type of rear cover or top to shelter the bed compartment, or the passengers, for that matter.
Going to drive-thru restaurants while you are out cruising won’t be an issue in this thing, and that’s because the windows are always down. In fact, there’s no side windows at all! Apparently, at some point during the build, they were deemed unimportant and the openings were filled with body filler. That body filler appears to extend right onto the inner door panel itself. Well, alrighty then.
The saving grace (or tragedy) of this vehicle is that it’s still a 2WD Blazer with a 4.3L Vortec V6 and a 5-speed manual transmission. I’m not sure what the production numbers on these would have been for the 2002 model year, but it has to be pretty rare. This could have been a fantastic platform to build a nasty street machine with some daily driver utility, but since that utility has been somewhat removed when this “craftsman” hacked off the rear of the vehicle, I don’t know what to think.
And now the burning question: What would one do with this lump of failed dreams and broken promises? I’m not going to lie:I don’t mind that front end too much. But the rest of it is so chopped and hacked, so I don’t know what could be done to make it presentable. With that said, this could be a fun troll-mobile. I’d keep it looking just like it does now, but give it some vintage heat under the hood. I’d keep it weird with a 409 on some juice, or maybe even a flathead Ford just to mess with people at your local cruise night and tell them it’s some “rare factory prototype from the 1950’s”. It’s only $900, so it’s also in range for 24 Hours of Lemons or Grassroots Motorsports $2016 Challenge duty with some creative budgeting. They love this type of stuff in events like those!
What would you do with it? Would you build it, cruise it, or set it on fire to put it out of it’s misery? Let us know in the comments!
I’m selling my one of a kind 02 Blazer 4.3L v-6 5 speed manual transmission that runs and drives like new , ice cold a/c .As seen in the pics the body is customized This is a truly one of a kind vehicle . Great for cruising or shows however it does not have side or a back windows
I would hire a mobile car crusher for a fraction of the price and feed this monstrosity and its builder to it to ensure that never again are our eyes polluted by such wheeled filth,,
Never thought I’d agree with Geordie on ANYTHING, but…
The horror of that car can never be unseen! It will be burned in my memory for eternity.
Sell this turd brown thing to the scrap yard, then take the money and put it into my Duster.
If you want something unusual for the 24 Hrs of Lemons, this is the perfect candidate.
Too expensive I’m afraid…
Find an unmolested S10 stepside body shell, put the front sheet metal and drivetrain into it, make the rear a bit of a better match for the front.
Not sure anything can be done with the back of the body other than Geordie’s idea of the mobile car crusher – or maybe jump it ’til all the Bondo falls out.
It needs to be driven off a cliff.
Help me i’m blind thats what the builder of this crock of shit said or should have