How do you feel about El Caminos?

[littlebittybobby]

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.

[littlebittybobby]

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

[iris lilies]

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."

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.

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.

[littlebittybobby]

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.

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.

[littlebittybobby]

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.