I might just give it a go in the Spring! If I do I'll let you know how I make out.
Thanks, I love my Sonoma. It was the first vehicle that I kept as a daily vehicle for a long time, drove it through highschool, university, first date with my fiancee, proposed to my fiancee in it...It's just an old truck, but it's earned it's space in the garage.
It's a 4.3L, automatic, ZQ8, which is basically an Xtreme minus the bodykit, it has the lower suspension, close ratio steering, blah, blah..Mine also has a blazer leather interior and I bunch of other small tweaks. I used to be very active in the S-series community, back when it was active, lol. Organized a bunch of meets in Southern Ontario, and even traveled to a few in the U.S. I still frequent S10forum, but post a lot less.
I was also looking for a Blazer/Jimmy recently as a beater. You're right, it's very difficult to find something that's not rotten or even worth the effort of fixing up. Looking for a ZR-2 makes it that much harder. I ended up finding a deal on a really solid 85 Trans Am, so I am going to use that now instead.
The Colorado in the pic isn't mine, I moonlight as an automotive writer and I took these pics as a size comparison for my review a couple months ago.
Glad to have another S-series guy here..Not much love out there for these anymore, lol.