![]() ![]() So, I called my friend and he headed over to look at it with me. She said she would but that she wanted more than a couple of hundred bucks. I asked her if she would think about selling it. One fine day a 1959 El Camino like this one appeared in her driveway. There was a pitiful lady in my neighborhood that was a horrible drunk. Hagerty is at $23,000 for a #3 good condition car, can this one be saved?įirst, I am half crazy so I would do something stupid like restoring it, but I have history with a 59 Elcky. But, you can see that the floors will need a lot of work as will the quarters and we don’t see the drivetrain – if there is one – or the underside. The seller is listing all four of them for $5,000 each.įor being exposed to the elements, literally sitting in the woods for 50 years, the inside of the bed actually looks pretty good. They say that this car is one of four that they bought from the estate of the previous owner who bought the cars 50 years ago thinking that they’d make one car out of all of the parts and then they sat in the woods for 50 years. It may or may not still be under the hood, we don’t know because they don’t mention the drivetrain at all. This one decodes to having had a six-cylinder engine originally which should have been a 235 inline-six with 125 hp. The seller doesn’t give us any engine photos which is always supremely disappointing when they take a ton of other photos. The El Camino would go away for four years after the 1960 model year and when it came back it was no longer based on the full-sized B-body, based on the new two-door Brookwood station wagon, but on the intermediate A-body. If there’s a cooler tailgate you’ll have to let us know what it might be in the comments section, I can’t currently think of anything better than this design. Ford beat Chevy to the pickup punch by two years but Chevy nailed it with this cool and unusual design. This was the first year that they were produced and they only made the first-generation cars for the 19 model years. It’s hard to argue with the design of a 1959 Chevrolet El Camino. They have it listed here on eBay in Thief River Falls, in northern Minnesota, and they list a $5,000 buy-it-now price. The exterior photos look good other than the missing metal around the quarter panels, but you’ll need a Fred Flintstone costume to drive this one, at least until it’s restored. Once you check out the detailed photos you’ll see that they aren’t lying. Insiders said that the powerband will be smooth and predictable as the 2020 Camino SS will have low-end torque sourced from the kinetic energy system and will lessen as the engine builds boost from the Eaton supercharger.The seller says that this 1959 Chevrolet El Camino is rusty, very rusty. The 2020 Camino SS is said to offer up anywhere from 500 to 555 hp with torque figures currently unknown. Sources said that this would be a possibility with the 10-speed automatic, launch control and the optional performance package. Engineers are working to hit the mark of a sub 3.5 second 0-60 time for the 2020 Camino SS. The project is slated to offer a similar powertrain as the 2020 Camaro SS with a revamped LT4 (possible engine nameplate change) 6.2L base with regenerative power assist. No European model has been expressed even though marketing research is currently underway.Ģ020 EL Camino SS 376 Performance & Powertrain Markets for the vehicle currently include North America, South America, Australia, and South Africa. Borrowing heavily from the new 7th Gen 2020 Camaro, the Camino, and Camino SS is said to offer a modern take on nostalgia (whatever that means) with vast technical, efficiency and performance advancements. The nomenclature will change simply to the Camino SS. The latest news from insider sources is that GM has placed the El Camino SS for possible production as a 2020 year model under the Chevrolet badge.
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