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5 hours ago, NHMJXJ said:

 

Very cool ride!

 

5 hours ago, 89 MJ said:

By no means exotic, but harder to come by than most exotics.

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My boss’s 59 El Camino. He bought it in 1960, the year he graduated high school, and has never sold it. 
Originally it was a 6 cylinder with a three on the tree.
In 1966, he drove the El Camino down to SoCal to visit his wife’s uncle. Jim and his wife’s uncle then took the El down to Tijuana, Mexico to get the interior done in black diamond pattern leather. That interior is still in it, and is in excellent shape. On the way to SoCal, he also bent some pushrods running it through the mountains. He had to fix it when they got to his wife’s uncle’s house. 

Fast forward a few years, Jim is working in a body shop when a rolled over 66 Chevy full-size with a 300 horsepower 327 comes in. At this time, the El had about 40,000 miles on it. The 66 only had a couple thousand. Jim took the engine out of the 66 and dropped it in the El. In 1976, Jim opened the Auto Center. He decided that it was time to redo the El. He repaired the rust, painted it blue, put on turbine wheels, a 66 Belvedere grille, and side pipes. Everything you see on that truck today is original to the restoration in 76. Even the tires. 
The El now has a bit over 70,000 miles on it and he puts a couple hundred on that every summer. 


More pictures of the Elco!

Beautiful ride.

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2 hours ago, FrankTheDog said:

 


More pictures of the Elco!

Beautiful ride.

I only have 1 of other of the Elco. 
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After this show though, I drove the 65 Coronet Hemi convertible and Challenger Demon. 
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A Lil Red Express

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A Winged Warrior and Mopar show at the house of the PO of my MJ’s father. 
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My cousin’s 72 Lemans GT (not a T-37 or GTO)

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A 68 Shelby GT500KR convertible that my dad drove his neighbor around in decades ago. 1 of 318. 
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My Dad’s 54 Studebaker Conestoga Wagon. He bought this car with the roof cut off, so he chopped it. It had a 9” with 4.10s and a posi, a Chevy 355 with dual quads, and a 5 speed. Now located in Belgium. 1 of roughly 400 
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My mom’s old 46 Chevy and my Grandpa’s 34 Chevy Master Town Sedan. It had an SBC with a tripower. He drove it every day during the summer since the 80s. Unfortunately, in 2016, he was in a crash in that car and neither are around today, but the weather was beautiful that day and it was how he would have wanted to go. Roughly 900 of those cars were built between 33 and 34. 
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