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...I spotted this at the James Dean Car Show in Fairmount Indiana last September, very nice
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Neat! Not an easy job to match the door to the quarter.
Looks like the door is from a 4 door lemans sedan |
Nice , but the Honeys don't go with it
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Cool!
What did the sticker say - do you have a close-up? |
Oh, thats the El GOATINO. :oogle:
They only made one, and it was on a slow weekend shift and run out the back door. ;):):D A very cool project, I like it! :) |
I'd like to see the PHS on that little jewel!
Love this hobby - limited only by a builder's imagination. BJ |
I've never cared for El Camino's, but can appreciate the orignality/creativity it takes to pull off a factory looking car that was never really built :)
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being a real lover of elcaminos, that has to be one of the coolest rides i have ever seen. is it for sale somewhere???
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Anyone know this car or its owner/builder? I would like to see some more of it please. Any other pics 69 Daytona by chance?
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Theres a guy on the V-8 Buick site, he built a GSXamino..i heard he was building a GTOmino..ill ask a guy i know who knows him and see if theres a build thread or site..if i find it i'll post the link..or see if its the same guy..the GSXamino is an amazing car...i mean top flight stuff...
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Here is a 67 project for sale at $2400. Not sure of ad date.
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../1ece20ad0.jpg http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j1.../1ecd20190.jpg |
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Thanks for the replies and info above guys...I have a weird and uncontrollable attraction to these GTO/Elky things.
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Nice job. He even has 442 UTE rego plates. Notice no window frames either. So thats a 70 Olds and the previously mentioned 70 Buick GSX (which looks just as nice as this Olds too), I guess I better hurry up and start on my 70 GTO version! |
There was a 66 GTOcamino running around the Phoenix area in the late 80s/early 90s. I saw it a couple of times....looked like it had been done a long time ago (faded paint).
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that guy really spent alot of time on that olds version. interesting how he fabricated the quarters to work with the elcamino. very nice.
do you have any pics of the gsx version? |
i always wanted to take a lemans wagon, put a 69 gto front end with hide a ways, and put an elcamino bed on it so i would have a 4 door. i had talked about doing it with a dually rear end , but thought that might be a little too much.
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I think it would look a bit cooler if he could have moved the rear wheels back 4 - 6". (Wagon frame vs. 2-door frame?.... if it had a longer wheelbase). |
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Chevy made the El Camino, and now we've seen a Pontiac Judge Camino, and an Olds 442 Camino.
Can't let this thread die without seeing a Buick GSX-Camino. http://www.smilieshq.com/smilies/happy0061.gif |
that is just too cool. it is a shame that they didnt offer them like that new.
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The Buick version looks the best.The transition from the doors to the quarters are the most natural IMHO.
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Very cool now, not sure how many of them they would have sold back in the day.
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i am not so sure they wouldnt have done well with them. they sold a buttload of elcaminos over the years.
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For sure...a twenty year run isnt shabby. I used to see these everywhere around where I grew up. Pickups werent really needed in suburban areas but these gave the haul space with a car cab. |
i drove as a daily driver and collected elcaminos / gmc sprints for several years. i always said they were the best all round vehicle ever made. many times, i would have given anything to have had a 4wd version. it was amazing how much they would haul and tow. i always had a dually and a 1/2 or 3/4 ton 4wd sitting in the driveway, but 5 out of 7 days would go out and get in one of my elcaminos or my favorite, a 78 gmc caballero dealer converted trans am truck.
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i will have to dig some up. they featured it in smoke signals around 11 or 12 years ago or right when they took on gmc as a member of the club.
it was built by ernie miller pontiac gmc (where steved works). they built 10 of them. some had a few different items than others, but all got the t/a hood scoop, fender extractors, and a special paint and stripe job with a modified t/a bird on the hood and on the sides and either snowflake or aftermarket wheels. mine is white with red interior and red accents. they put a formula wheel off of a red bird on it. it is red with the gold spokes and has the firebird emblem on the center cap. it has the 8" snowflake wheels and t/a exhaust splitters. i test drove it when it was new and just couldnt force myself to pay the price they wanted for it. however a guy i went to church with bought it and he sold it to me a few years later when it had 36k on it. i had intended on putting a complete t/a-6.6 and a 4-speed in it back then and pulled one out of a wrecked t/a. i never did do it however. after they built them, the local chevy dealer did the same thing with the elcaminos and used the z-28 items. i havent seen another caballero or elcamino done this way in many years. they have all seemed to disappear. i have the letter from the dealer documenting mine was done by the dealer. |
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i said 11 or 12 years ago, but it might not have been that long ago. when did poci start accepting the gmc line??? it was around that time. who here has there smoke signals in chronilogical order????? you could scan and post them. ( i am not trying to be lazy, but i got a new computer and my scanner is not compatible with it for some reason)
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Well I guess this means I can come out of the closet now! I had a 69 elCamino SS396 somewhere along the way of my 30 year love affair with GTOs. I loved it. I could haul all kinds of stuff for my Pontiac projects, it would run 14s on street tires and it had a great ride. I used to dream of having Pontiac torque under the hood and started secretly thinking about what it would take to convert a camino into a Pontiac. The 69 was what I thought would be the easiest if it were done like the car at the begining of the thread....but I have forever loved the 70. I bought my first one at 18 and now have an Orbit Orange Judge. I have attached a sketch I drew many years ago that kinda captures what I had in mind. If I were to build it now it would be big cubes with a blower on top and 22.5 mickeys out back.....fun thoughts...thanks for the topic!
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Awesome sketch! I'd love to see one like that get built!
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right now without a scanner it is going to be hard to do. where it is stored it is not very photographable (is that a word???). who on here keeps all their old smoke signals magazines? if so, maybe you could scan the article and pics and post it.
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