1976

click thumbnail to see more

In the mid seventies Erich Bitter came up with the idea to build a comfortable and luxury off-road car. George Gallion made some drawings to cosmetically convert a Chevrolet Blazer. Besides the front and rear end not much was changed.

The Bitter Blazer was presented in 1976. In the book "Erich Bitter" from Matthias Göbel and Lutz Keiss there is an interesting story about the first photo shoot of the Bitter Blazer.

Unfortunately the project didn't make it any further than this one-off. Maybe the time was not right for such a car yet. But the idea was good as is proven by the success of SUVs from the nineties in the US and later also in Europe.