Except for the small wheels, this is almost a perfect counterpoint to the full size, two-door 2WD and possibly slightly lowered Blazer we saw this morning. It’s a smaller S10- version, with four doors and a body lift. Why it’s sporting the little wheels and tires is a mystery.
Hmm, I liked these in original two-door form, especially the two-tone version. But the four-door lost something in the looks department.
There’s one of these a ways down the street from me, curiously with a bench seat in front, I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before in these, it’s a very basic version.
“But the four-door lost something in the looks department.”
I always thought GM did a clever job of keeping the 2 door’s roof styling by disguising that rear door.
Perhaps that’s the issue, since it makes the front door look even smaller for no good reason…?
The 2 door version had that cool, slanted window. The 4 door version looks like it tried to keep that look in the rear, but the B pillar was too thick to keep that look on the rear set of doors, so the result ended up kind of botched looking. Though not terrible, it’s a bit awkward.
These were super popular around here, especially the later 4 door versions which people bought as family vehicles. I still see one every once and a while, but most of them rusted away some time ago.
With the shape of the B pillar, and the attempt to hide the C pillar with dark glass, it looks as though GM was trying to mimic the greenhouse of the 1955-57 Chevrolet Nomad and Pontiac Safari.
The problem is that it looks “half done,” as the original Nomad and Safari also featured wraparound rear side windows (to obscure the rear roof pillars), and a more sharply sloped rear roof line.
Why the deuce is the rear wheel so far forward in the wheel well?
How do you mean? This is pretty much par for the course for a 4-door compact SUV.
There is something wrong with the rear axle. It is not supposed to be like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_S-10_Blazer#/media/File:1st_Chevrolet_S-10_Blazer_4-door.jpg
With the right year and the right options, the 2-door version was a blast to drive.
Right year…’88-’89, right options…4.3 and a stick.
This appears to be a GMC Jimmy, not a Blazer. That being said, they have only minor differences.
The word Jimmy on the driver’s door tip you off Don?
I’m just now really looking at it.
Has the body been dropped on a 2wd chassis?
So much of the frame is visible and it just looks weird.
Just now? Or then?
The big deal in this stretch version is the excellent rear seat passenger leg room.
We leased a brand new 1992 Blazer four door, 2 wheel drive. We went in for an Astro van because that was the first year for the “200hp” 4.3 engine. But it wasn’t available in the Blazer, so said the brochure. However the dealer told me that Chevy was putting a few in Ames he had special ordered one for a customer. The deal fell through, so we leased it.
That motor was anything but smooth, but it really had a ton of power. It would catch 2 and 3 gears!!!
Aside from the antilock brakes failing, it was well screwed together…until 55000. The digital dash began to flicker, letting us know of its upcoming retirement. Then the valve guide seals started letting oil through. The dealer said things would be fixed under warranty, but then asked if I really wanted the rattle free dash pulled apart, or if I wanted that engine, which ran very well, messed with. So we traded it. And by 9 the next day it was on its way to the docks to be shipped overseas!! Apparently they wanted nothing to do with it either!!!