I Spy A Cool GM Truck

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I dunno, I dig it. The mirrors and front marker lights are definitely not my style and whatever is on the hood is downright offensive, but I like it otherwise. It's a 4x4 with Corvette wheels. I'd lower it, lol.
The hood is like a leather "bra" kinda thing
 

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I dunno, I dig it. The mirrors and front marker lights are definitely not my style and whatever is on the hood is downright offensive, but I like it otherwise. It's a 4x4 with Corvette wheels. I'd lower it, lol.
Id swap the wheels and lift it lol. Take them giant truck markers under the bumper off and go lol. Honestly paint the mirrors black too.
 

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Saw this really clean Tahoe with an HD front clip and custom paint when we stopped to eat at Freddies (burger joint) on Sunday
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Omg. The 01-02 HD front clip is once of my favorites. Never seen it on a half ton or suv. That looks killer!
 

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My buddy sent me this from Dino's Git Down. I remember seeing this on FB and the forums for the last few years, apparently the dude that built it sold it in August right after he finished it. Then this dude bagged and bodied it between August and now

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My buddy sent me this from Dino's Git Down. I remember seeing this on FB and the forums for the last few years, apparently the dude that built it sold it in August right after he finished it. Then this dude bagged and bodied it between August and now

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GM should have built those. A body like that, I mean. I know they offered them south of the border somewhere, but the proportions were a little goofy.
 

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GM should have built those. A body like that, I mean. I know they offered them south of the border somewhere, but the proportions were a little goofy.
I want to say that GM discontinued the 2 door full size SUV with the end of the GMT 400s, because by this point Phord and Dodge had already ceased production of theirs, and the sales for those models decreased every model year.
They should have brought a fullsized truck based SUV back to compete with the bronco though. That would have been a fitting place for the Blazer name to land(not on a fwd crossover).
 

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I want to say that GM discontinued the 2 door full size SUV with the end of the GMT 400s, because by this point Phord and Dodge had already ceased production of theirs, and the sales for those models decreased every model year.
They should have brought a fullsized truck based SUV back to compete with the bronco though. That would have been a fitting place for the Blazer name to land(not on a fwd crossover).
a full size suv through back that looks and act like some thing from years gone by would be great would be great but it would have no competiors the new bronco compeates more with the wrangler however there is rumbling of a new ram full size suv coming soon but it seems that gm all ways stays out of things for some reason I men you got the ram rho and now the trx is coming back and the blue oval has the raptor and the raptor-r where is the gm cometetor
 

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I am just saying if the general came out with a new 2 door full size suv with 70d-90s all business no nonsense modern BS vibes to it and they put the 6.6 gas engine with a supercharger or twin turbo on it if I had the money I would buy one
 

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I want to say that GM discontinued the 2 door full size SUV with the end of the GMT 400s, because by this point Phord and Dodge had already ceased production of theirs, and the sales for those models decreased every model year.
They should have brought a fullsized truck based SUV back to compete with the bronco though. That would have been a fitting place for the Blazer name to land(not on a fwd crossover).

I know they were definitely low-volume sellers in the last several years, but I mean, they still could have offered the 2-door in the gmt-800 years and beyond. All the development costs were already there for the Tahoe and Suburban. I believe they could have offered them AND made money too... just not as much money as compared to Tahoe and Suburban.
 

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I know they were definitely low-volume sellers in the last several years, but I mean, they still could have offered the 2-door in the gmt-800 years and beyond. All the development costs were already there for the Tahoe and Suburban. I believe they could have offered them AND made money too... just not as much money as compared to Tahoe and Suburban.
there are picture of a prototype 2 door gmt800 tahoe looks pretty good too bad they never made them
 

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man one of these with a lq4/lq9 or 8.1 or a dirtymaxx
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It wasn't canceled. They made those for other markets. But the wheelbase needs to be shorter so the wheel opening jives with the rest of the body.
 
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