I have...and what are you suggesting/implying? If you are gonna make a statement, please clarify! Don't just post then duck and run.........

On October 16, 1958, Chevrolet begins to sell a car-truck hybrid that it calls the El Camino. Inspired by the Ford Ranchero, which had already been on the market for two years, the El Camino was a combination sedan-pickup truck built on the Impala body, with the same “cat’s eye” taillights and dramatic rear fins. It was, ads trilled, “the most beautiful thing that ever shouldered a load!” “It rides and handles like a convertible,” Chevy said, “yet hauls and hustles like the workingest thing on wheels.”

Ford’s Ranchero was the first “car-truck” sold in the United States, but it was not a new idea. Since the 1930s, Australian farmers had been driving what they called “utes”—short for “coupé utility”—all around the outback.

Though the Ranchero was a steady seller, the first incarnation of the El Camino was not and Chevy discontinued it after just two years. In 1964, the company introduced a new version, this one built on the brawnier Chevelle platform. In 1968, the more powerful SS engine made the El Camino into one of the iconic muscle cars of the late 1960s and 1970s.

In 1987, Chevrolet dropped the El Camino from its lineup for good. Today, the car is a cult classic. In 2008, Pontiac announced plans to introduce an El-Camino–inspired “sport truck” and even considered naming it the El Camino, before settling on the shorter G8 ST. In 2009, however, GM’s financial difficulties forced the carmaker to postpone production of its new models; it also announced plans to eliminate the Pontiac brand altogether by 2010.


This is the 3rd El Camino I have owned.

Herz the info on my 64 (#3).......


Vin Number: 45680L152436

4 = 1964

56 = Mailbu 8-cylinder

80 = 2-dr sedan pickup

L = Van Nuys (final assembly plant)

152436 = Sequential Production Number (starting number for '64 was 100001; a total of 212,993 283 motors were installed for 1964 models)



Trim (Cowl) Tag

Body Assembly Date: 6B

Style 64-5680 Body VN 11794

Trim 750 Paint 919

ACC W 2 MP 5W


Line 1: 6B (June, 2nd week)

Line 2:

Style: 64 (model year); 5680 (

Body: VN (Van Nuys); 11794: (Unit number)

Line 3:

Trim: 750 (Medium metallic aqua imitation leather)

Paint: 919 (Color – Dark Aqua; Sales name – Lagoon Aqua)




Line 4: ACC

Group 1: W (Tinted windshield)

Group 2: M (powerglide transmission – RPO M35)

P (comfort and convenience group Type A – RPO Z01)

Group 5: W (custom seatbelts with retractors – RPO A 49)


Engine Block

F0603JD

F = Flint

06 = 6th month (June)

03 = 3rd day

JD = suffix code (used to code the type of engine, transmission and vehicle)


Belts

Power Steering – Gates 7417 (GM ?)

Generator – Gates 7530 (GM 53105)

A/C –Gates 7580 (GM 58015)


Carb # 7024110


Wheel Cylinders

Front – 1-1/8" bore

Rear – 15/16" bore

Alternator

Delco – Remy
1100668-37A
4E29 12 v Neg


Rear Axle Identification: ZA 6 03

Prefix Axle Ratio

ZA 3.08:1 (found with powerglide transmission)

Assembly Month and Day

6 = June
03 = 3rd day

Casting Numbers: #3839390N (10-Bolt)

 

Gee, Panz, that's a nice car/truck ya got there, but if there's anything that annoys me it's someone who doesn't know anything about what they're driving.