okay-----they quit making 'em after 1987. So yeah----they are most definitely a classic car. So anyway---here's one I have. It doesn't run, and needs everything. But, it's worth it. Yup. (see photo)
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okay-----they quit making 'em after 1987. So yeah----they are most definitely a classic car. So anyway---here's one I have. It doesn't run, and needs everything. But, it's worth it. Yup. (see photo)
One of my high school pal's uncle had one with some sort of huge hemi V-8. Don't know if that was stock, but it sort reached a sweet spot around 90 mph.
My brillliant builder/entrepreneur uncle always had El Caminos. He always went for the practical things. I can still picture them in my head.
I feel irresponsibly nostalgic about El Caminos. Back in the early 70's I was home on leave and my best friend had a black 1970 SS 396 version. We spent the better part of a week running around our old haunts with an oversized cooler filled with Miller Ponys (7 oz bottles) in the back which we refilled frequently. Luckily we did no damage and were not injured or arrested so it's a fond memory with that black El Camino as a major player.
I know nothing about how cars work, but have always like the look of El Caminos. Growing up, my then 3yo brother became fascinated with cars and learned to spot all the different ones by their designs. Somehow I absorbed that visual knowledge too and can name all the 60s and 70s cars one still sees now and then.
Good for you!Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkytoe
All the penis cars looks alike to me.
Now when you get to little British cars of the 60s and 70s, I’m your man for marque identification.
I have always said, as my kids remind me often, that I would NEVER date a man who drove a Corvette because I really don't like "penis cars."Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
Bobby: I cannot see your photo attachment. I think El Caminos are pretty cool, but more so if they are operational.
okay---i'll try again. The technology has failed mee, here, so far. But yeah---here it goes with another try. Thankk mee.Attachment 6643
okay---it's really pretty SOLID, tho it has a 4" hole in the left rear 1/4 that is not hard to fix, and the floor panel behind where the seats go has large rust holes; another simple fix. It's just missing the engine, transmission, driveshaft, bumpers, seats and a whole bunch of other parts. A front bumper and a rear window came with it. It DOES have a steering column, but I won't use it. The windshield is cracked. The really nice thing is that it has a title. Yup.
okay---here's what these kids do, when they get ahold of an old "jalopy" el camino that runs, but needs everything. (see photos). This is from an El Camino Forum on f-book. So yeah--a kid got an old elky that runs, but is otherwise pretty trashed. What does the Child do, but put an aftermarket accesssory steering wheel ($150) to "customize" it. But, its still the same junker. Anyway---to answer your questions, I've got a whole lot of spare parts out back that i have picked up here and there, to rebuild this one. Including an engine/transmission that i COMPLETELY overhauled. Yup.Attachment 6644Attachment 6645
I have a little more tolerance for those types of cars now in my advanced age when men my age are re-living their youth in those old collectible cars. It is cute, let them be cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by catherine
the local Car Club is a center here in Hermann of social activity and meeting people. Via car club and garden club in Hermann, and if you get onto one of the many Boards of a civic group here, you are IN.
okay----as soon as i get my El Camino and of course---my 58 Packard running and beautified, i will be joining the River City Cruisers up there in Herrmann, so that i can just get out and DRIVE for no other reason than getting some miles in and wasting gas. But yeah----i just know that that makes a ho' lotta sense. Yup. That all being said, i am not a "joiner" nor am i interested in Prestige. Nope. So, maybe i'll just stay on the fringe, and show up at an event and stay in the background. Maybe even wear a disguise so that the "In" group will say to themselves: "who WAS that masked man?". Ha.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
okay---you kids've questioned my tendency to "hoard" parts for years and years or even decades, but guess what? Must be about 10 or twelve years ago, i responded to an ad on CL by a guy who was tridying up and getting rid of all that crap out in the garage. See---wehat happened was he was going to fix up an old El Camino like mine, and he had accumulated some factory chassis parts from the wreckin' yard. Well, he had to change course on his plan, and bougfht a nice shiny corvette to polish up, to take his wife for a ride. See? So, anyway----he had the front-end braces salvaged from a g-body Grand Prix, a crossmember modified for dual exhaust, a front and rear stabilizer bar, and an F-body steering box. All for a pretty cheap price. Yup. I disassembled the steering box to use "g body stops in it, to keep in from rubbing the body on sharp turns and rehauled it as well. So there's that. The moral o' the story is, you kids needta be on the lookout for stuff you can use, someday. Hope that helps you some.