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Ahh...COME ON! SOMEBODY around here has GOTTA bid on one of these beauties!!!

(I wish I could...I miss my '69)



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Don't miss out! Anybody with ANY amount of taste has always wanted one o' these...RIGHT?! Anybody wanna lend ME the money???


(hey you guys over there...I'll bet a gun-rack would fit real nicely in the back window of one of these babies too!)

I've had 4 El Caminos over the years, from '76 to '82.. last one got trashed in Hurricane Andrew. Wish GM would bring 'em back, they were great little performers.. I kept a '79 going for years with junk yard 350's.. blow one up, buy another for $300 and slap it in, and you are good for at least another year. Towards the end of it's life, I could do a complete engine swap in under 45 minutes, from the time I parked it to the time I drove it back out

Cheers,
Brad

Yep Brad, I agree! Here's my submission for the "Eighth Wonder Of The Modern World"....
The Chevy small-block!!!

And my favorite Caminos are(as you probaly can surmise), the '69s and '70s.

AND, you're right AGAIN! What's with GM blowin' money on that little pseudo-Hot Rod Chevy SSR a few years ago, and NOT spendin' it on makin' a NEW friggin' EL CAMINO???!!! HUH G.M.???

(it's no wonder them boy in Detroit are losin' money hand over fist lately, huh?!)

Love those ElCaminos..

Wish I still had mine, it was great little all around vehicle; dumbest car trade I ever made was letting that one get away.

Oh baby!

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I'll take this one please, dont know anything about them, but i like em.

If they ever do bring it back, I hope they do a better job than Subaru did on the Brat. I like the concept of the Brat, but the execution left something to be desired, IMO. They did good jobs on the Outback and the Legacy, but seem to have missed the boat on the Brat. Well, who knows, GM finally seems to have hit the mark with the new Malibu, mabye, just maybe...

Slightly OT: There is an ongoing series over on Jalopnik.com where people send in examples of other vehicles that have been "el camino-ized." They're also tracking rumors of a new el camino coming to market which is basically a rebadged Aussie Ute.

http://jalopnik.com/tag/el-camino/

now look dwight i told you .you look like magnum. so no good tryin to be the dukes of hazzard with one of them mean looking machines

A friend of mine had a brat. Not long after he got it, his wife bumped the curb (kerb) whilst parking and did half the price of the "car" worth of damage to the front suspension. Rates a 0.2 for offroad abilities.

nice car, always liked that style

Frank

I had a Ranchero for about 6 months when the body collapsed from rust! I was driving on the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway on Long Island when the back just fell down- blew out both rear tires and made a few sparks!

That awful (style-wise) Honda Ridgeline is probably the closest you can get today to an El Camino in a new vehicle. Waaaa, I want mine back...

this didnt look that bad,


pontiac seems to have a little more bals over designs compared to chevy...it'd be better if GMC brought back the caballero..haha

OH MY GAWD!!! THAT'S IT!!! THAT SUCKER IS BEAUTIFUL, Tom!!!

GO PONTIAC!!!

But being the ever-present cynic that I am, do ya think in your wildest dreams that GM will get their heads out of their collect behinds and actually make it?

(I sure hope that crossed-out "ODDS ARE" is true up there alright!)

Hi Dwight. I had a '72. Rear window leaked like a mofo and I sold it when the front end couldn't take any more shims to keep it tracking straight. I wish I had it back. But then i wish I had my discards back: 1969 Roadrunner, 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, and a 1970 Plymouth Cuda. Oh..and my vote for the eight wonder of the engine world was introduced in 1964. The famed 426 Hemi. Here are some hemi fun facts for us motorheads out there:

The Elephant (aka, the HEMI(R).
Arena... TOP FUEL DRAGSTERs

One TF dragster's 500-inch Hemi makes more horsepower than the first 8
Rows at the Daytona 500.

Under full throttle, a dragster engine consumes 1 1/2 gallons of nitro
per second, the same rate of fuel consumption as a fully loaded 747 but
with 4 times the energy volume.

A stock hemi will not produce enough power to drive the dragster's
supercharger.

Even with nearly 3000 CFM of air being rammed in by the supercharger on
overdrive, the fuel mixture is compressed into nearly-solid form before
ignition. Cylinders run on the verge of hydraulic lock.

Dual magnetos apply 44 amps to each spark plug. This is the output of an
arc welder in each cylinder.

At stoichiometric (exact) 1.7:1 air/fuel mixture (for nitro), the flame
front of nitromethane measures 7050 degrees F.

Nitromethane burns yellow. The spectacular white flame seen above the
stacks at night is raw burning hydrogen, dissociated from atmospheric
water vapor by the searing exhaust gases.

Spark plug electrodes are totally consumed during a pass. After ½ way,
The engine is dieseling from compression - plus the glow of exhaust valves
at 1400 degrees F. The engine can only be shut down by cutting the fuel
flow.

If spark momentarily fails early in the run, unburned nitro builds up in
those cylinders and then explodes with a force that can blow cylinder heads
off the block in pieces or split the block in half.

To exceed 300 mph in 4.5 seconds dragsters must accelerate at an average of
over 4G's. But in reaching 200 mph well before 1/2 track, launch
acceleration is closer to 8G's.

If all the equipment is paid off, the crew worked for free, and for once
NOTHING BLOWS UP, each run costs $1000.00 per second.

Dragsters reach over 300 miles per hour before you have completed reading
this sentence.

Top Fuel Engines turn ONLY 540 revolutions from light to light!

The redline is actually quite high at 9500rpm


Putting it all in perspective:

You are driving an average Lingenfelter powered "twin-turbo" Corvette.
Over a mile up the road, a Top Fuel dragster is staged and ready to launch
down a quarter mile strip as you pass. You have the advantage of a flying
start, but you still run the 'Vette hard up through the gears and blast
across the starting line and past the dragster at an honest 200 mph. At
this moment, the dragster launches and starts after you. You keep your foot
hard down, but you hear an incredibly brutal whine that sears your eardrums
and within seconds the dragster catches and passes you. He beats you to the
finish line, a quarter mile away from where you passed him.

This phenomenal machine has spotted you 200mph and not only caught,
but nearly blasted you off the road when he passed you within a mere 1320
feet.
Chrysler first designed and built the HEMI for the street in 1951.

You're sure right, Doug. Hemi's sure could be one of those "Wonders" too. But I'd put it 9th. And the reason is that the Chevy Small-Block has basically become that "trusted workhorse" of an entire automotive industry, whereas the Hemi is more a "specialty engine".

(BTW folks....Doug here has some very nice vehicles, both two and four wheeled, and we ran into each other going down a main boulevard around here just the other week...me in the Spyder and him in his Dodge Hemi Magnum...no, not THAT kind of "running into" thank gawd, or you wouldn't be reading THIS right now!!!)

I'll tell you what, Dwight, that 351 Clevland had a lot of power. It was good for "moving" cars out of the way when barracaded in a parking space!

Have a 351C in a4x4 one time. I know I know, they never put a 351C in a truck. But I did.. Bulit it up pretty nasty was a powerfull trucks once it was done. I think its still on the road, Man I miss that truck.

1986 F150 4x4
6in lift
38x12.5x15 Swampers
351C granny 4 speed
9in rear with 4:56 gears
dana 60 front with 4:56 gears
Custom bucket seats, autometer guages, redid the inside from top to bottom, and repaint the truck all my self. Got the truck when I was 14 from my dad it did not run had a blown engine. took me till i was 17 to get it back on the road.

Or...MAYBE there's some dude renting 'em out in VEGAS and you could use THAT to get to Prescott, HUH?!

(...but I doubt it)

I have to admit I did the the El Camino ss from the late 80's. has the monte carlo front end, was sporty.

Around here we call them F****N old rebuilt datsuns!

Rolling art. The '59s almost bring a tear to me eye they were so... yeah



Too bad the car makers lost style along the way

For those with very deep pockets, one of the six "Holy Grails" of pickups recently became available for sale

Behold, the Mack Junior

A bargain at $200K
http://www.dupontregistry.com/autos/search/DRauSearchDetails.aspx?itemid=452226

if i had every vehicle i ever gushed over or coveted...

Not Camino, but Ranchero.

New Year's Eve, 1970. Seventeen year olds Jimmy Korth & myself stayed at a brother-in-law's cabin outside of Tigerton. There was an early 60's ranchero at our disposal. Being mature for our age and New Year's eve at that, we first went to the local bowling alley and bought a package of Swisher Sweet cigars. Then beebopped down the frozen two lane to Mark's Beer Shack in Elderon, where if you were old enough to crawl up on the stool, you were probably old enough to drink a Hamm's shorty. Sometime between the first shorty and the next morning, the cocktail of beer, cigars and spinning ranchero-induced brodies on the icy deserted country roads resulted in bad juju.

Caminos/ranchero car/trucks have always reminded me of that fatefull night.

jh

Ah yes.
El Caminos and Rancheros.





The hermaphrodites of the automotive world

A buddy had a 429 Ranchero GT. Lots of fun in that one, luckily we lived.
Here's the new Holden VE Ute, comes with a 6L V-8 and the land down under:

Thanks for another angle of that beauty, Al!

In the immortal words of that big dumb dude guarding Ali Baba's treasure in that Bugs Bunny cartoon..."Hassan like! HASSAN LIIIIKE!!!"

And BTW Bill, I don't care what you call it. There's one thing for certain here...THAT baby just SITTIN' THERE looks a million times faster than your garden variety SNAIL!!!

(get it?!...a snail is a hermaphorditic organism.....yeah, I know...that was pretty lame, wasn't it)

The Holden will come to the USA as a Pontiac.

I had a 66 El Camino. It was fun, fast, and loud.


Found on Roadside Dead

or

F***ed Over Rebuilt Dodge

or

Found Over Ravine Dead