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Chevy el camino 678/10/2023 Within a fully restored engine bay in flat black, sits a gleaming red/orange painted GM 350ci V8 which has very recently been rebuilt, and it looks the part. Ladies and gentlemen please rise for a standing ovation for the interior! The black headliner is tear free but displays sagging and some notable folds. A modern AM/FM radio has been added as well as a small tachometer to the driver's left, all in working condition. It is made up of a fine mixture of padded black vinyl, black paint, silvery anodized aluminum and a peppering of black textured panels. The original dash sits proudly in front of the buckets and is also amazingly clean. Door panels are black as well, and again very clean just like the seats. These buckets flank a black plastic console with plenty of chrome highlighting around the edges as well as around the fully chromed shifter. A shiny black vinyl for the bolsters surround wide tuck and roll black inserts, and this all presents extremely clean in bucket format. Opening the doors you will have the pleasure of feasting your eyes on the recovered and redone interior. Keep it simple stupid, (KISS), is the rule of the design for this car which shows very nicely on its exterior. 15-inch-deep dish rally wheels with smooth bowtie chrome caps are on all 4 corners and are wrapped with Yokohama staggered width blackwall radials. The bed of this vehicle is lined with black painted ribbed steel and has no rust or major dents and is topped with a shock assisted black vinyl tonneau cover to keep your load secure. Front and rear bumpers as well as the front grille present nearly new. Plenty of chrome trimmings lining the top of the bed and defining the cabin glass has been newly polished, also on the interior of the wheel wells, and all is in very nice mirror-like condition. The Tuxedo Black respray is very nice and deep, and has just a few very minor scratches and paint chips here and there, but nothing major. Wonderfully preserved straight steel panels with well minded gaps make up this car like pickup. Some confusion may arise as to how this truck was born due to the existence of 2 trim tags, but regardless of original iteration, this truck is ready to haul home the trophies along with hauling ass. A fresh rebuild on the 350ci V8 and Saginaw transmission, purchased by our consignors in 2016 and driven a mere 4 times during their ownership, all the while being safely tucked away in the garage when not in use. We offer up for consignment, a fully restored and slightly hot rodded 1967 El Camino from the bow tie company. After dropping the axe on the original model GM decided to bring it back in 1964 as version 2 which lasted until 1967. It could have been the new flamboyant wings of full-sized Chevys or perhaps the Ranchero's hefty stake in the market, but after just 2 years and 36,409 El Caminos produced, Chevy dropped the axe on the model. The El Camino was built on a modified Brookwood station wagon platform. GM flirted with coupe-type trucks such as the Chevrolet Cameo Carrier and the GMC Suburban Carrier in 1955, but they went all-in with the El Camino for the 1959 model year. Whatever they were doing, they doing something right, because the El Camino was outselling the Ford Ranchero, the vehicle that invented the segment and that the El Camino was built in response to, by more than two-to-one (the ’67 Ranchero found just 17,243 buyers).The El Camino was a direct challenge to Ford's Ranchero, a utility coupe dominating a previously untapped market. Upgrades were the 350hp 元4 and the top-of-the-line 375hp L78.Ĭhevy sold a total of 34,830 1967 El Caminos. The base engine for the SS396 was the 元5 with 325hp. This was the second year for the 396 big block V8 option. The Turbo Hydromatic 400 (aka: Turbo 400, TH400 and T400) automatic transmission became available. Included were a new front grille, bumper, trim, and a set of handsome wrap-around tail lights.ġ967 brought several safety improvements including a collapsable steering column and optional front disk brakes. Of course there were the usual minor trim and detail changes. Stylistically and mechanically, it was mostly carried over from the ’66 model year, itself the recipient of a complete facelift. The ’67 model year came at the end of the 2nd-generation of El Camino, and the 1st-generation of Chevelle.
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