Velocity Classics’ Chevrolet K5 Blazer able to honor the truck’s title

It isn’t that every thing previous is new once more, it is that so many aged issues are being rebuilt higher than they ever might have been when new. Our subsequent exhibit within the case, Velocity Trendy Classics making one other classic splash with Heritage Sequence and Signature Sequence trims of the 1969-1972 Chevrolet K5 Blazer. Should you checked out our historical past of the Chevy Blazer, you’d know the unique full-sizer got here with one seat and no high as commonplace. Prospects paid additional for these. Not so with the Velocity model — nicely, not the seat half. Patrons get 4 of these with each truck. The roof continues to be non-compulsory.

It begins with a Roadstershop K5 chassis unique to Velocity. The engine bay hides a 6.2-liter LT1 V8 making 455 horsepower, respiratory by a customized exhaust with a Magnaflow muffler and paired with GM’s ten-speed computerized transmission. Adjustable Fox coilovers in a four-link setup swing Dana 44 entrance and Dana 60 rear axles assisted by sway bars. An Atlas 2 switch case is there for getting over the true tough and tumble. On the corners, 18-inch wheels in both painted metal or aluminum, relying on which sequence a buyer buys, put on 35-inch BFG A/T KO2 or Toyo Open Nation tires. Braking is not going to be an issue because of 11-inch Wilwood rotors clamped by six-piston calipers in entrance, four-piston calipers within the rear.

AMP Analysis PowerStep retractable working boards assist driver and passenger into the cabin. There, they will discover a color-matched inside inside a six-point roll-cage, from the leather-based or marine-grade vinyl seats to the sprint pad, headliner, and door panels. Vehicles fitted with a roof will profit most from the Classic Air local weather management system, everybody will profit from the double-DIN Alpine audio head unit and Focal Audio audio system. 

Costs begin at $339,900, builds take about 14 weeks, and operators are standing by.