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03-17-2017, 12:36 PM | #1 |
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El Camino a truck?
I know most will say no. Chevrolet calls it a truck. DMV calls it a truck. Wife calls it a Mullet. (Business in the front & party in the back).
I pose this question to the group. What defines a truck? Is it not that the vehicle has a bed in the back that you can carry stuff in? We call P series vehicles trucks? I started my El Camino build in the Alternate tinkerings section, but really, What defines a truck?
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03-17-2017, 12:39 PM | #2 |
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Re: El Camino a truck?
That's up to the reader. Depends on what you consider to be the official description.
They are licensed and treated as trucks. So legally, they are a truck. In practical terms they are built on a car chassis, so for practical purposes, they're a car with a bed. And in the final analysis, what does it share the most parts with? By far, the Chevelle, a car. Others will have strong opinions in both directions, I'm sure!
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Re: El Camino a truck?
I personally call it a truck. Not a very useful one as far as towing and capacities but still a truck.
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Re: El Camino a truck?
truck1
noun 1. any of various forms of vehicle for carrying goods and materials, usually consisting of a single self-propelled unit but also often composed of a trailer vehicle hauled by a tractor unit.
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So really anything that you use to haul goods around
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Re: El Camino a truck?
So by that definition my 3cyl Geo metro is a truck. Lol. I just had to.
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I had a '70 el Camino in High School. I always called it "my car". I didn't think of it as a truck.
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A long time ago I was told. Trucks carry and tractors pull. It was an answer to my question where the term Semi came from, as I was talking to a guy who was real smart on big trucks. He said, semi tractor... carries and pulls, carries the front, pulls the wheeled end. Made sense to me as a bobbed semi cannot carry only, but who knows.
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Semi comes from the fact that a portion (semi=partial) of the load (weight) is carried by the pulling unit, and a portion of the load is carried by the trailer. Most of my knowledge is useless, btw.
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I have three elkys , a 59 a 65 and a 66 I have had about a dozen , here in Utah they all are reg as a car , they are on a car chassis , and same body tub , they are nice to haul a few items in , but not like a pick up, back in the eightys I even had a set of air boosters on the rear as I had a hitch and towed my 40 ford to the drags on a trailer a lot of times , I guess its just what you want it to be , but they ride like a car and I love them
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Re: El Camino a truck?
On the other hand, in Michigan a Suburban is registered as a station wagon, or a "truck wagon".
By way of reference the El Camino was designed and built by the passenger car group at Chevrolet Engineering (rather than by Truck Engineering). K
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Well,I have a 67 El Camino.
I call it a car. Mines frame is longer behind the rear wheels than a coupe or sedan.More like the wagon frames. It has factory air shocks too. In 55,Chevy made a vehicle they called a truck,but is actually a wagon called a sedan delivery. So,for me if it looks like a car-it's a car and if it looks like a truck-it's a truck! Call it what you like! And,what is a ute? (here we go again!) Mike. |
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Re: El Camino a truck?
A ute is what Australians would call and El Camino. It's based of the word utility, pronounced like flute, without the fl. They still use them there, pretty popular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ute_(vehicle)
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No, it is not a truck. It's a cruck or a trar but it's definitely not a truck!
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Re: El Camino a truck?
It's not really a truck, but it's more trucky than a car. Why don't we steal an Aussie term and call them Utes? From what I hear that type of vehicle is still pretty popular down under.
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Re: El Camino a truck?
What I have learned on this is: If you are a truck guy, they are cars. If you are a car guy, they are trucks.
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I've never owned one, but I've always liked them. Especially a souped-up resto-mod version. I'll go with car (I'm a truck guy), plus, as Keith says, they were built by the car division.
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Re: El Camino a truck?
yup
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THey're not all chevy's or gmc's.
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that's what they call "cammed"!
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Re: El Camino a truck?
I have a 70, I call I call mine the " Elkie" or a car. It's a station wagon frame and body tub. It even has rear seat floor board under the bed. I love it but it's not much for a heavy load. DMV says it's a truck and makes me pay commercial fees. But we all know how bright tax agencies are......lol
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