the 80s did get a bit odd, and colorful

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/

album cover art of Fu Manchu, thanks Dale!

https://www.allmusic.com/album/daredevil-mw0000182353

The LS6 El Camino had been parked in the bottom of this cinder-block garage from 1990 to September 2018

The original owner made friends with a teenager who went to him to learn how to umpire... and now and then, he'd drive his Elk to the ballpark.

So the kids just loved the looks of the Elk, and told his instructor in all things Umpire, that if the day ever came that the truck needed a new home with a great car loving person -

about 30 years passed when the ump was looking at Power Tour photos of his young friend, now a dad who was sharing the car experience with his kids, and the now 72 yr old ump decided that the time had come, and that the car would certainly be going to the right person who'd not only love it, but treasure it and not flip it to some investment minded collector.

He called him up and told him that the time had come.

The story doesn't mention why it then took 3 months to decide what to ask for the Elk, but it was "....very fair. I guess it was beyond fair"

The ump - as the original owner and guy who got to option the truck the way he wanted it - included the 450hp LS6, Turbo 400 automatic, and 4.11 Positraction gears.

“It was bad,” but apparently not bad enough. His brother-in-law was a friend of a friend of NASCAR driver James Hilton.

“We went over to his shop one day, I think in Erma, South Carolina, and spent a whole day with him. The last engines they ran in 1969, in Riverside, California, were the big-blocks. They changed to small-blocks, so they had all this big-block stuff left over” stuff like hot Chevy big-block parts, including aluminum heads that created “the wickedest-sounding engine that would idle about 2,000 rpm and still sound like it was going to die.”

https://www.hotrod.com/articles/60000-mile-1970-chevrolet-el-camino-ls6-found-behind-trees/

now we know what tail lights didn't look good on a Corvette

From a 63 Riviera

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1650250231788253/

hard to believe this is on its way to work, but at 630 am on a Thursday... what else could it be?

Oh... umm, quick close the door and RUN! HORNET'S NEST! ! (thanks Doug and Gary!)

Travis Watson, owner of an Ohio-based bee-removal service, moved the massive nest from the driver’s seat of a rusty Chevrolet El Camino in Alliance
It got my adrenaline going,” Watson, a 13-year veteran of the removal service and lawyer by trade, said. The 28-year-old said he works in the removal industry for roughly three-quarters of the year.

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2018/08/28/ohios-bee-man-removes-massive-hornets-nest-from-car-in-shocking-video.html
https://www.facebook.com/thebeemanllc/posts/2298436590170922
https://www.facebook.com/thebeemanllc/videos/514889872315658/

El Camino soft top prototype

https://gmphotostore.com/gm-collection

Revoked license 28 yr old driver, going the wrong way, smashes into El Camino. 2 guys died on a test drive

Division Street runs through a busy section of Waite Park. Monday night, it’s where 77-year-old Roger Nelson met a potential buyer of his 1970 Chevrolet El Camino. A car that won trophies. A car he loved.

Monday night, that car was crushed and 61-year-old Richard Tomlinson of Grantsburg, Wis., was killed as he was test-driving it.  Roger Nelson’s family members say he was a retired truck driver, father of four and a grandpa. Nelson, who was on the passenger side, also died.

“It was pretty catastrophic. I don’t want to speculate as to the speed of the striking vehicle, but from my experience, it would seem to me that he was traveling at a pretty above the posted speed limit,” Waite Park Police Chief David Bentrud said.

Police say the wrong-way driver, Charlie Barnett, had just gotten out of jail that day after violating an order for protection.

According to state records, Barnett’s driver’s license is revoked. It also showed he was arrested and booked into the Stearns County Jail on July 8 and released on July 9 after being cited for a misdemeanor no-contact order violation. It’s his fifth no-contact order violation out of Stearns County since being charged with domestic assault in January 2018.



https://www.facebook.com/groups/996045710517424/permalink/1619522634836392/
https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/07/10/wrong-way-fatal-crash-waite-park/
http://knsiradio.com/news/local-news/man-charged-wrong-way-crash

The other El Camino, no, not the Caballero, the other other El Camino, the GMC Sprint

and since someone will ask, what the hell are you talking about, the Caballero was a station wagon... well, the other Caballero http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2006/11/pickup-type-cars-like-ranchero.html and this http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/05/gmc-cabellaro.html but if your that other person say, what the hell station wagon Caballero are you talking about? then look at this http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/10/buick-cabellaro.html and this http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/58-buick-caballero-most-extensively.html

far out El Camino at Larry Watson's I guess

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-191#post-3040475

This has to be the same car, a decade later

at the Car Craft Street Machine Nationals in Indianapolis in 1979.

http://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-123#post-3012343
http://www.jims59.com/other59s/theultimus/index.html

I bet these would sell for an unexpected reason.... there simply will be nothing like it in the American market to compete with it for startling good looks, mini trucking, retro El Camino, and every one looking for something new and unusual to own, instead of another Camry look alike

I'm so damn tired of my commuter never having enough space inside to move big things, and still not yet a small car. I'd get a mini truck like this, if nothing else, it would finally put a 2 door on the market that isn't a 50 thousand dollar car. Vette, Camaro, Chally, Stang. All overpriced, with no entry level 15-20 thou model like the manufacturers made in the 60s.

You could get a entry level cheap Dart, Camaro, Mustang, Coronet, Chally, Charger, Road Runner, Torino, Falcon, etc etc with out the high powered engine, options, etc.

Not any more. There are no cheap american 2 doors for high school and college kids to buy.

http://v2guzzi.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-04-02T18:56:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=30&by-date=false

the Optima Challenge has some fresh cool old cars on the track

https://www.optimabatteries.com/en-us/experience/2017/08/optimas-2017-search-ultimate-street-car-njmp-album-one?full_gallery=true

Gabriel shocks is celebrating 110 years of business, and giving away a custom built 67 El Camino (50th anniversary) - drawing entries must be in by August 30th

Notice that when making an entry the rules are available only if you notice the very light lower right hand "RULES" and click on them at the bottom of the page, but ya have to agree to them anyway, and you have to chose one of 4 tv shows you probably don't watch as your favorite - before your entry is accepted.

You can see the El Camino getting painted on https://www.powernationtv.com/episode/TT2017-10/identity-crisis-custom-paint

in 1900, an entrepreneur named Claud H. Foster decided to combine his two greatest passions, tinkering with automobiles and playing the trombone.

Foster invented a multi-tone automobile horn using the concept of a trombone, calling it “Gabriel’s Horn.”

Taking the name from his invention, and using $1,500 he had saved, he founded Gabriel® - a company that would go on to revolutionize automobile suspension systems.

With the same pioneering and independent attitude that founded the company, Gabriel’s continual advancements in technology and innovation lead to them becoming a company of “firsts”;
 creating the first automotive hydraulic shock absorber;
the first adjustable shock absorber;
the first air-adjustable shock absorber – the industry leading Gabriel HiJackers®;
 creating the first Position Sensitive (Groove Tube) Technology;
 the first U.S. produced twin-tube shock absorber – the Gabriel Gas Ryder;
and introducing Velocity Sensitive Technology for shocks and struts – a new advancement and innovation in ride control technology

http://swee.ps/uHRatiQRb
http://gabriel.com/our-company/history/
https://www.facebook.com/theoriginalgabriel/

Potential winner must take delivery of the prize no earlier than November 7, 2017 and no later than November 18, 2017 at RTM Productions LLC., 130 Southeast Parkway Court, Franklin, TN 37064 or prize will be forfeited. The winner will be solely responsible for all federal, state and local taxes (including but not limited to income taxes and sales taxes), registration, license, title and insurance fees and for all costs and expenses associated with acceptance, delivery of and/or use of all elements of the prize, in whole or in part, not specified herein, including but not limited to all taxes, fees, insurance, travel costs and expenses, shipping costs and/or any other expenses associated with acceptance, use of and/or taking delivery of the prize.

The potential prize winner will be chosen by random drawing on or about September 6, 2017 and notified on or about September 23, 2017 from all eligible entries received.

And be sure to get a couple easy simple more entries by using the list of extra entries... take a look, and then click on the ones you want to do -  the easiest are to click through to Gabriels website, and Power Nations website. That's 2 very simple easy more entires

See, clicking through on the blue works on these two, and on the facebook pages 

beautiful elk! 1959

https://www.facebook.com/bigislandchopper/posts/1770639536296386

Donald Johnson was trying to work on his 1970 El Camino on a Saturday morning... by rolling it out of his garage. It kept going, faster than he (at 73 yrs old) could jump in to hit the brakes.

It kept rolling and ended up in the Yakima Washington canal, where it was carried downstream, upside down. It ran over his leg when he either missed the jump in, or tried to stop it, and busted his leg... not cool, that, will really wreck your day.

But, he's had the car since he was young, not necessarily an original owner, but no one says exactly how long he's had it... his daughter said since he was a kid (impossible of course, he's 73, at most he's had it since he was 27)

http://blog.garagistry.com/2016/05/while-you-were-away-9.html
http://kimatv.com/news/local/man-injured-while-trying-save-classic-car-from-rolling-into-water
http://www.kapptv.com/article/2016/may/16/1970-el-camino-towed-roza-canal/

1956 Chevy Nomad photoshopped into a truck

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/108731209478234/

http://www.superchevy.com/features/sucs-1041-mike-dodsons-1956-chevy-nomad-wagon/#photo-02

Thanks Steve!

reasons to go see the NMCA West Coast Natls

When they fired up this Elk and rolled out, it set off car alarms... at a muscle car show, do you see what I'm saying? It was exponentially louder with the zoomies than any other car around

392 hemi in the T Bird, as a remake of a Hot Rod cover car