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Originally Posted by ted
The El Camino was neither a good passenger car or a good truck.
It was never enough truck for me.
I had one for a couple years let the girlfriend drive it.
Nice to see with care and light duty yours has lasted so long.
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It is certainly NOT a real pickup. It was never designed to be. Think of it as a car with REALLY big trunk.
This is the most expensive thing I ever hauled, a $490,000 aerial mapping camera, the Wild RC-30 that we bought brand new.
This was this spring. A load of cypress mulch, and cotton seed hulls, and several concrete blocks for my wife's garden projects.
I had to replace the front brake pads a coupe of years back, so I ordered GM Mr. Goodwrench branded pads and they cost me a whopping 12 bucks. My water pump, starter, alternator, power steering pump, are all guaranteed for life, so just labor to swap in a new part. It is super cheap to operate on the cost per mile basis.
Yea, it is a 1980s car with manual door locks, and wind up windows. No backup cameras, adaptive cruise control, tire pressure monitors, and all the stuff new cars have.
Not a month goes past that someone does not offer to buy it, or tell me about how their cool uncle, or brother or someone had one and they loved riding around in something different.
I can't image owning some generic econo-box car "plunger car". A car, no one really wants, but you have one. Or yet another pickup like 1/3 the vehicles on the road. I don't have a boat or RV to haul around, and if I need to haul a heavy load, I can borrow a friend's real pickup.
Just this week we had a 92 degree day, and I was sitting at a traffic light after a 45 minute drive, the AC was blowing 40 degree air, the engine temp was 185, oil pressure great, and voltage at 13.2 volts. My El Camino is worth more than I paid for it, and it gets more comments than my 911 does.