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Re: Is this vehicle covered by the site???
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A Little cool, though ? |
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Re: Is this vehicle covered by the site???
Yes, I think those trucks are very cool.
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Re: Is this vehicle covered by the site???
Heck yeah they’re cool! Id love to have a Baja Brat I’m a huge fan of Subaru’s. My first car was an 02 Bugeye RS, still got it. Nothing gets better traction.
And how many “trucks” (insert definition here) can do this factory? ![]()
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Re: Is this vehicle covered by the site???
Sorry for stinking the thread up
With all those wanna, be trucks But They were in Scottsdale in January I couldn’t resist taking pics , I like oddball vehicles And they were great examples of stuff you just don’t see that often I did think the Brat was Cooool.... ![]() |
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Ahhhh I see what you did there
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68 C10 long-fleet, Long and low is the way to go. factory: 307 sbc, SM465 4-speed, 12 bolt 4.11 rear end. 75,000 original miles. Build:Ole Blue Millennial and can drive stick. ![]() "Too many people have opinions on things they know nothing about. And the more ignorant they are, the more opinions they have." -Thomas Hildern |
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A couple years ago
I thought ‘Hmm, I want an El Camino’ So I found a really nice example to buy I had never even driven one before Went to go close the deal Took it for a test drive It drove, just like a car I passed And I,,Still only own TRUCKs ........................................ ![]() |
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Re: Is this vehicle covered by the site???
don't forget about the vw type 2
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Dude that’s pretty cool! Did they have those in the states?
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^ absolutely, good friend of mine had two of them used daily for work trucks in his property management business, very versatile rigs..
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I got stuck on VWs from my dad. We had the first year bus way back when, a '53! He always wanted a double cab TRUCK. If they weren't so ungodly expensive I would buy one to honor him. I bought a '66 in '76 and made what I called a Baja Bus out of it. Took it to Baja, too! These were rated at 3/4t. It's the torsion bar suspension that makes that possible. I would load 80# bag mix in the center up to level with engine area, then lumber to the roof on sundeck jobs
Here are some from my collection of car based TRUCK pictures
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"BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~ Last edited by special-K; 04-25-2018 at 08:00 AM. |
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Damn, I love me some el camino's.
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Then there were truck based Utes. Makes no sense to argue over what shade of grey area these vehicles fall into when manufacturers went about making these things whatever way they wanted anywhere between truck based and car based. The fact is, they were offering an alternative TRUCK back before we had mini-trucks in this country. You go to any grocery store and there is a meat section and a seafood section. Some have a poultry section separated. It's all meat. There are hubcaps and there are wheel covers. Very distinctively descriptive names for each, hubcaps cap hubs and wheel covers cover wheels, yet both get called hubcaps. If you chop the back roof off and take seats out of a station wagon to haul cargo it is no longer a station wagon. It now fits the description of a truck... a vehicle with seating position for a driver, and passenger beside, with rear cargo area.
Are these truck based cars...with a bed? Where is the focus on this truck with most of the load to be carried in the no-no area to make room for the whole famn damily? I see a car, but I call it a truck. An El Camino's focus is far greater toward cargo than this joke of a truck, like the bed was an afterthought
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"BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~ Last edited by special-K; 04-25-2018 at 09:13 AM. |
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I am not trying to change your way of thinking. This is America. But Lee was a Great American General who saw that surrender was his next best move as a Great American General. I always wanted one of these '56 trucks like the one in the top left corner
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"BUILDING A BETTER WAY TO SERVE THE USA"......67/72......"The New Breed" GMC '67 C1500 Wideside Super Custom SWB: 327/M22/3.42 posi.........."The '67" (project) GMC '72 K2500 Wideside Sierra Custom Camper: 350/TH350/4.10 Power-Lok..."The '72" (rolling) Tim "Don't call me a redneck. I'm a rough cut country gentleman" R.I.P. ~ East Side Low Life ~ El Jay ~ 72BLUZ ~ Fasteddie69 ~ Ron586 ~ 67ChevyRedneck ~ Grumpy Old Man ~ Last edited by special-K; 04-25-2018 at 09:14 AM. |
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I guess this El Camino does belong on this site as so much of are talking about it. Lets talk some more about it shall we?
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Hold on there a second, Special-K. I agree with everything you said so far, except...
If it ain't beef it ain't meat. Sorry, man, that's just how it is in my book. But that is a really cool truck. I would love to tool around in something like that.
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Can I call my truck a car ?
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Re: Is this vehicle covered by the site???
This thread is just sad!
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Yup. So sad that it has me looking for an El Camino or a station wagon on craiglist right now.
If I had never bought my El Camino, I would not have traded for my Blazer, Sad right?
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This is fun!
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Flexibility is a sure sign of intelligence. Rigidity is just the opposite. Take a look around. I've changed my thinking on many things over the years once I took in all the facts I had gathered. We have agreed with all your points about what parts the El Caminos were built from. Good points, nothing I didn't already know in my consideration. Shows that these pickup trucks were built from a car platform. Shows they are both in their entirety. Shows they began as cars but ended up as trucks. I don't need to insult people who disagree with me. I am too intelligent for that. I also don't find this thread sad, or even your posts to be sad. I find it all to be good healthy conversation with a seasoning of debate sprinkled on. I never found this very topic, discussed many times over, to go in any direction but the one this one has taken. It's all good, but I'm done. I am intelligent enough to know when to walk away. Just too cocky to roll over or run from a good debate. This merry-go-round is making me dizzy anyway
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I never knew I was considered Un Intelligent because I consider my El Camino a truck like the State of Georgia considers it a truck .
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I love sad stories
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It doesn't really matter what you call it!
Manufacturers will build what will sell,so who knows what they will be turning out tomorrow! Look at the sudden popularity of electric cars! It's not new technology either.It's just renewed interest (with plenty of advertising of course!). And,just for the record,I'd say that about 80% of light duty trucks on the road today are not actually used as trucks. I've a nice,expensive K-3500,all optioned out,but it's never been in the mud but once!It's one of those look what I have deals!Men gotta be men! ![]() But,they don't make Elky's anymore. Mike. ![]() |
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Tick tick tick. I can hear the clock ticking on this thread as it surely will get locked. Questioning others intelligence here can be considered bashing.
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