This El Camino is off the charts
 

Wow, nice, and 396 w/4spd. What a great vehicle!

Now all it needs is a custom interior with seats out of a Ford Focus, full digital dash, and 20" chrome wheels running 25 series tires and it would be perfect!

Yep, some putz will buy it and destroy it with a "restomod "

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I doubt it on this one. You can start with any EC if you want to do that

Just an average nice El Camino price! :D

60K with another 3K added in commission is serious money. Chrome bumper cars seem to be holding up.

Back in my college days a good friend of mine had that same car. He went through cars pretty fast in those days. Either wrecked or just timed out in interest. I think he moved to a TR4 next. He rolled that one into an open ditch on a city street. Won a bit of money in a lawsuit due to the ditch not being protected enough. But that was late 60's.

I don't remember what he had after that. Went to Alaska to work the pipeline and came back with enough money to get into real estate. The rest is history and the number of classics and hot rods are beyond my count.

Had BaT been around since the late 70's I bet he'd made a million on cars alone.

Right, need to pull the crappy old 396 and drop in an LS! LOL!

I could never justify paying that much for an EC with those crappy wire wheel hubcaps.

Agreed...not all muscle car enthusiasts are into modifying an original car...

Did you actually look at all of the photos, or at least many of them? This car is showroom new and loaded with more options that probably any '66 El Camino ever built. The place that restored it is one of the best I've ever seen, it's not over-restored like 99.9% of restored cars, it looks factory new everywhere. Just unbelievable.

Wheel covers can be changed to taste but I would drive this car just as is. :cool:

I will admit that if I bought that car, it would have to have rally wheels or something in place of the wire wheel hubcaps and white walls. I would save the wheels and hub caps, but couldn't bring myself to use them.

I am a fan.

If I owed it? Even though it is gorgeous and museum quality, I know that my ADHD would result in more than one smokey burn out.

For Sale: Virtually brand new EC with less than 50 miles on her.... showroom condition!

Needs new tars :D

And with those 14" wheels and 205 75 white walls, you wouldn't even really have to try...

Yeah I agree. Car is too pristine.

I just despise the whole resto-mod thing in general.

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I hate shouty things done poorly. Either alone sucks. Combine the two and it's a hard nope.

There are some really nice restomods out there. Big Red Camaro v1 was an early example. Strope's Martini Mustang is amazing. Mike Maier's v1 '66... . Ymmv.

We used to have a local El Camino club. One of the guys started fixing up his El Camino. I bet he had a $30,000 black paint job as it was laser straight and like a mirror all new interior that was factory fresh. It was so nice, he quit driving it and drove his new car as his daily driver. He eventually sold the El Camino for less than the paint job cost. Someone got a great car for cheap.

It's almost over-restored, definitely a little better than new. You cannot compare this car to the millions of repainted ECs with whatever engine in them, those might be nice cars but this is different:
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Sorta makes me wanna buy it ... I need a load of mulch!

I restore instrument clusters and refinish wood for old Mercedes, I do a bunch of stuff but some things you cannot restore. Once those knobs for the headlights, etc., are pickles, they will never be cucumbers again. This car is all cucumber.

Needs a PPI still.... Pre-Pickle Inspection!

I usually buy dills :)

bread and butters are great on sandwiches

I like the roofline.

My dad had a GMC Sprint in the 80s. Ugly as sin, classic GM junk.

Believe it or not, I looked at all of them.

Initially I didn't click on the auction when it first appeared since I thought it was just a stock car that some old man had kept for a long time. I can't believe someone would put that kind of money into a car like that.
Even in the restored but not over restored condition this one is in, in the end, it still is going to drive like a mid-60's car. If that's your cup of tea, go for it.

I could see buying this. It's not nearly as nice, but then it would be easier to drive without worry.

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^^^ With exception of the 67-69 Camaro and 68-73 Corvette, I am definitely a 64 and below GM guy.

It's absolutely my cup of tea. I learned to drive in a '66 Chevelle in the same color, (stepdad's car), it drove really well. In fact, I'd like to have a mint 1935 Ford V-8 to drive and a '50s Cadillac. If they were "modernized", they would be ruined in my book. I have modern cars to drive everyday with Apple CarPlay, adaptive cruise, etc.

I hate new cars, with a few exceptions. :cool: