Maybe you should consider turning it into a video game, call it Virtual Car Lot, maybe? I think it's more fun the way you do it now, though. Thank you for the 'pickup' tip or I might have thought it was a Ford Falcon, because it looks so much like one I used to have. Tom Turner: "I believe the vehicle in your photo is of a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino. These vehicles were on a car platform and had the same appearance of the car of its model year in the front, but with a pickup bed where the back seat and trunk would have been on the car version. I believe the largest engine was the 348-cubic-incher from Chevy."ĭalton Brannen: "It is Chevy's answer to the Ford Ranchero. This was a truck that could be driven to church and not look out of place, then put to work on Monday. Norman Lewis: "The rear fins were slightly lowered from '59 and the grille changed slightly. Robin Kitchens: "The best guess I've got is a 1960-62 Chevy Impala." John Hayes: "Second (week) around, I'm going to stick with a 1960 Chevrolet, but it could be a Bel Air or El Camino." I don't think it stayed in production very long. It appeared to have the exact same body parts as the El Camino of that year, just different trim. I don't know any of the facts on this vehicle at all other than my friend's was an early-'80s model. I saw only one or two of these, one belonging to a friend of mine. "Pontiac had a vehicle on this same body style that was called the Caballero. Later on in the '70s these vehicles were given the SS designation as an optional model. El Camino stayed in production with GM until the late '80s I think 1987 was the last year. "If my memory is correct, the first year for the El Camino was 1959. These vehicles were available with a 235-cubic-inch six-cylinder, a 283 or a 348 V-8 engines. Both of these models were considered passenger car styling in that they were a low profile body style and seating (single bench type seat). There is another possibility in body style, and that would be a Sedan Delivery. Walker Mobley Jr.: "It is a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino, since you tell us it is a pickup. Mine had air boots in the back that you could inflate to hold it up." "I had one but it was the later model based on the Chevelle frame. So unless you really got something to confuse us, I go with the El Camino. The one you show does not have that trim. It was used on the Bel Air but the Bel Air had additional trim pieces right behind the headlight on the side. I am still confused about the trim on the top of the fender. Howard Jones: "It looks like it was based on the Impala body style of those days."Īlso, Ann Willbrand and Raymond Richards.ĪUGUSTA: Lowell Fritsche: "You have to be looking at a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino. We had to trim responses for this page to get everyone in, but all the complete submissions are in the online version of What Is It? Unless specified otherwise below, our readers guessed 1960 El Camino:ĪIKEN: Bob Ennis: "With the success of the Ford Ranchero, Chevy responded with the '59 and '60 El Camino. Here are the other readers who identified the vehicle. Chevrolet continued El Camino pickup production again a few years later and continued the model until the late 1980s." "El Camino's cargo volume also did not match that of other small pickup trucks. Perhaps these early 'crossovers' didn't carry enough passengers in a time when baby boomer families dominated the market, three across was the best they could offer. "The pioneering American sedan pickups just did not connect with enough car-buying Americans. "However, sales of the 1960 model were low so Chevrolet discontinued the model while Ford had more success with their Rancheros, which were now based on the brand-new Falcon compact (which was the car I drove during my college days in the early '60s). The El Camino was introduced by Chevy in 1959 as a competitor to the Ford Ranchero pickup. This time you pictured a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino pickup. He is a Chevy fan and has a few classics to include a couple of El Caminos. "The answer to this week's contest was just around the corner in a friend's yard in my neighborhood. It could have been one of several 1960 Chevrolets if we hadn't specified it was a pickup that narrowed it down quickly to El Camino, which had been introduced the year before to battle Ford's Ranchero pickup.Ĭhosen randomly from the correct entries was the name of Gary Engen, of Augusta, who wrote: Our photo the past two weeks showed the front corner of a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino.
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