#68 el camino free

Dash area is very nice- dash pad, heater controls, knobs, vents are nice. Seat was reupholstered and door panels replaced. It has the factory gauge cluster with a tachometer in the middle. INTERIOR: Inside is very clean and unabused. The 15' rally wheels are a couple inches wider in back. In back the trim and bumper have been replaced. The the mouldings around the door windows, rain gutters and all around the top of the bed look new. The emblems, marker lights, bowtie mirror and door handles look new. The front bumper has been rechromed, the grill is good original. The SS package has domed hood with chrome louvers, blacked out along the bottom and on the tailgate. The metal flake is laid out evenly, the clear coat is polished smooth and glossy.

It's smooth all along the bottom, there are no bubbles.

It is laser beam straight from every angle, the body panels fit square and flush.

#68 el camino free

From what I can tell it's all original rust free, damage free metal. It has one of the cleanest bodies I've ever seen on an El Camino. California rust free car with air, power steeering and power disc brakes.ĮXTERIOR: Built in California, has a Z in the vin. Real SS 396, designated right in the vin. If it doesn’t sell, he’ll part it out and junk the rest.Real SS 396, California rust free, air, ps, pdb! The seller is on a timetable and this vehicle needs to be gone within a month. If you air up the tires, we assume the truck will move around well enough to load onto a trailer. You don’t normally see a rusted dashboard, but this one is around the instrumentation and the steering column that is fitted with an Olds 442 steering wheel. Most of it may clean up well, but you’ve gotta love that look to want to keep it. It’s said that this SS clone has many real SS parts, like GM A-body bucket seats, but they’re just the beginning of a strange looking motif in the passenger compartment. The rear end has posi-traction and fitted with new 4:11 gears (but how new is new?). The seller says the TH-350 automatic transmission is also good. We’re told that the 350 cubic inch V8 under the hood was tested last year with a new carburetor and is said to have run well then. The vinyl top is gone and what was under it has rotted – badly. The body may or may not be holding up depending on where you look, but the roof is a big problem.

This is not the only vehicle that seems to be slowly deteriorating in that yard its company at a minimum looks like a 1953-54 Plymouth, 1971-72 Pontiac Ventura, mid-70s full-size Buick, 1964 Buick Electra 225, and a couple of Chevy work trucks. With its flat tires, this ’68 El Camino has been serving as lawn art and a place to store firewood (which will be removed when the pickup is taken away). However, time and Mother Nature have not been kind to the truck, likely due to it sitting outside for what is probably a long time. At some point, we surmise this SS clone was quite the looker, with a black paint job, vinyl top, custom stripes and aftermarket wheels. Apparently, that number disappointed Chevy execs so it became an option through 1972. Unfortunately, out of more than 41,700 of the pickups built that year, just under 5,200 were Super Sports. The 1968 model year would see the El Camino SS for the first time as a standalone model. Our thanks to Larry D for turning this one up for us! Sitting in a field in Holland, New York, this Chevy is available here on eBay for the Buy It Now price of $1,699. This ’68 edition was converted (in some respects) to a Super Sport clone, but with modifications like fuzzy interior components. From 1964, it had been based on a mid-size platform and would remain in the portfolio through 1987. By 1968, the El Camino was in its third generation since joining Chevy’s line-up as a “gentleman’s” pickup.