Good looks plus sedan styling let it be driven anywhere you’d take a regular passenger car. Perspective: Hot Rod magazine looked at it this way: “The El Camino is a true multi-purpose vehicle. It was adapted from the standard two-door Chevrolet station wagon platform and integrated the cab and cargo bed into the body. Prater likes the fact that his El Camino represents those made in 1984, the final year of El Caminos made in America.Īs for the question of whether the El Camino is a car that thinks it is a truck, or a truck that maintains it’s a car:įact: The El Camino was unlike a standard pickup truck. It was wildly popular when it came out in 1981, showing sales growth each year. The other involved the growing popularity of Chevrolet’s subcompact S10 pickup. car buyers when he moved the production of the El Camino to Mexico in 1985, taking jobs out of the U.S. One saw General Motors CEO Roger Smith alienating many potential U.S. Two things would drive the nails into its coffin for a final time. It would be part of Chevrolet’s lineup until 1987. It was simply a matter of going back to the drawing board. The El Camino bombed though and was discontinued after two years.Ĭhevrolet didn’t give up on the El Camino, however. Chevrolet first came out with the vehicle in 1959 in answer to Ford’s Ranchero. Prater’s 1984 El Camino is part of the fifth generation of the vehicle. He had the end product of his work on display at the Charity Car Show in Lima earlier this year. “I started it in March of 2015 and finished it in August 2020. That done, it was a matter of using parts from a beat-up El Camino that Prater already owned and combining them with a 1984 El Camino he found for sale in the classified ads.
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