The Chevrolet El Camino is definitely not a car that evokes prestige or classiness, but for a brief moment in time, the two-door utility vehicle was actually quite elegant-looking. The ...
The El Camino adventure started in 1959 as a Bel Air and Biscayne mix supposed to compete against the Ranchero, and in many regards, Chevrolet’s new pickup ended up becoming a surprising nameplate. In ...
Chevrolet could no longer ignore the success of the Ford Ranchero, so the GM brand debuted the El Camino specifically to compete against its rival's model. The El Camino debuted in 1959 using a ...
The Chevy El Camino debuted for the 1959 model year as Chevrolet's response to the Ford Ranchero. Sharing the B-Body platform and its Safety Girder X-frame with the Chevy station wagons, the El Camino ...
While Ford and Holden had been battling it out with their “coupé utility” variants in Australia since the 1940s, America had to wait until 1957 to get a proper ute based on a car platform. It was Ford ...
After World War II, Ford was fighting a losing battle to seize Chevy's crown as the king of the truck world. Ford's first F-Series pickup, introduced in 1948, was overshadowed by Chevrolet's more ...