When it comes to powerplants, this truck is an open book now as the original 235 cubic inch six-cylinder is long gone. The truck underwent a color change at some point as the exterior was said to be white and one time and the interior green. Most everything inside the cabin is going to need replacing or at least a refresh. If all this doesn’t discourage you, the condition of the interior is not going to raise your spirits either.
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In the plus column is the exterior bright work, which has all survived and would fetch decent money if this vehicle were to become a parts car. While the sheet metal is said to be better, the rear quarter panel paints a gloomier picture. The floors, rocker panels and rear frame rails are all cancerous. It’s going to need a ton of underpinning patching or replacement.
It must have been an internet purchase as he underestimated the amount of rust on the vehicle from the photos provided. The seller’s ’59 El Camino was retrieved from a field in western Montana. Thanks to El Caminos and Ranchero Forum for respective production data. Chevy would find greater success with the concept when it became a Chevelle counterpart in the mid-1960s. Chevy produced 36,409 El Camino’s in 1959-60, while Ford built slightly fewer at 35,223. But it wasn’t due to getting their clocks cleaned by Ford. During that time, Ford downsized the Ranchero off its new Falcon compact framework and Chevy put its truck on hiatus until 1964.
This first run of the El Camino lasted just two years. When they decided to pull the trigger against the Ranchero, Chevy built the El Camino off an adjusted Brookwood-series station wagon platform.
It was not the first time that General Motors would tinker with the concept, the first coming in 1955 with the Chevrolet Cameo Carrier/Suburban Carrier. Since the El Camino is not truly a pickup or a wagon, perhaps it can be thought of as a utility coupe. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this pickup is available here on eBay where the no reserve auction sits at $4,100. The seller confesses that this ’59 El Camino is rustier than he thought when he bought it, so he’s going to leave it to someone else to make a future for it. The first generation of the El Camino only ran from 1959-60, so this truck is from the beginning of Chevy’s journey. Sales of the Ranchero were strong enough for Chevrolet to follow suit two years later and would go head-to-head against Ford with its El Camino. In 1957, Ford introduced a new kind of pickup, one that was a modification to their 2-door station wagon to incorporate a truck bed in the back half.
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