The front upper and lower control arms, as well as the ball joints are all new. The air conditioning works, as does the power steering. As you can see from the pictures, the interior doesn't need a thing. The one in the dash, and a blue tooth stereo with a remote in the back. The interior is in excellent condition, with two radios. I sold a car for another friend, and a cop ran the plates and showed up unannounced and scared his wife. I have blocked out the numbers so people don't "drop" by his house. The 1956 California plates were nos when he bought them, and are still very minty. You really have to go over the car to even see them. Both are no bigger then the size of half of an pencil eraser. They are from when it was painted 22 years ago. The only issue I could find with the paint are two tiny spots on the lower left side of the tailgate. All the stainless and chrome are near new condition except the one emblem on the tail gate. The car has a working, under dash, air conditioning system, the factory power steering, and front non-power disc brakes. This is all the important info:The engine is a 350 V-8, with a 350 transmission. The car has been garaged since restored, and he drives it around town about 3 days a week, to 7-11 for coffee and then on a 5 to 10 mile round trip around Rancho Cucamonga. The car has even been in one magazine a few years ago.I am handling the transaction, and he is setting the price. I never say this, but the pictures do not do this car justice. The car is as clean as you will find a 57 year old Chevy. As you can see from the pictures, he take care of his cars, and maintains them about the best I have ever seen.He has had this car since the early 1990's, and he had it restored in 1993. However, a reserve is also in place.I am listing this car for my friend who is almost 80 years old. And this one really isn’t, with the top bid currently at $1,500. The good news is that an El Camino in such a challenging condition can’t be too expensive. This El Camino requires major work in every single regard, including in terms of metal, so it’s without a doubt an ambitious project. However, we’re being told the pickup is still very complete, which means that aside from the engine and the transmission, nothing big should be missing.īut on the other hand, this isn’t necessarily good news anyway. However, what we do know is the El Camino spent decades in a barn in Kentucky, so it probably served as a donor for another project. Most people who attempt to restore an El Camino end up going for another and more powerful unit anyway, so the original powertrain missing isn’t necessarily something to make you walk away.Īs for the reason why the engine and the transmission are gone now, eBay seller beaufordmay doesn’t provide any information on this front. This 1959 El Camino no longer has an engine or a transmission, but this isn’t necessarily a problem. The two V8s available in 1959 were the 283 (4.7-liter) and the 348 (5.7-liter), both also offered on the Bel Air and the Impala. Just like the Bel Air, the El Camino could be ordered with either six-cylinder units or V8s, and the base configuration was the 235 (3.9-liter). In its first year on the market, the El Camino managed to sell nearly 22,250 units, therefore beating Ford’s model by a large margin (just a little over 14,000 Rancheros ended up finding an owner in 1959).
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