Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Scored new door panels

 I picked up few days ago a set of new door panels for my El Camino.


A set of new door panels were for sale on local Craigslist and I bought them. I knew they were light coloured and as I haven't yet checked what was the original colour for my El Camino, I am glad that I got them.


I paid 150€ for them and I checked what they are currently priced and I got them half the price, not to mention no shipping and taxes to pay, so this was great score.


As you can see my current door panels are destroyed beyond repair.


Quick test fitting and they look awesome. My previous El Caminos all had black interior and I might go with the light one on this, even if original is dark one.


Saturday, January 27, 2024

New used parts part 2

A few months ago I bought a quite a lot of spare parts and some used parts. I have been meaning to make a post about it and shoot a video for my YouTube channel, but I haven't got anything done. Because I am procrastinating with this whole thing.


I made a video out it too, and personally appearing in it too. 


I also took out the skeleton of the driver side seat and test fitted the seat that I bought cheaply from local craigslist. 


I searched where these might be, but couldn't find any, but then I run into someone on the internet and that person said it might be from a Blazer.


Out with the old and in with the used. I know that the newer one bolt pattern is completely different, so I, either drill new holes or make some sort bracket for it. 


It fits, but is a bit too forward. Oh and it doesn't have the tilting forward function so, if you want to put something in the back or the smugglers compartment, no can do.



I am just feeling it, driving this baby on the winding roads on hot summer evenings, cool breeze on my hair as I hang my left hand out of the window.



Wednesday, December 27, 2023

No replacement for displacement

 When I bought this El Camino, it was sold to me as SS396, which is still hanging in there that is it a real or just a copycat. Everything points to that direction, albeit someone can go lengthy way to make it a "real SS", but I like to keep it hanging out there, since it is much better to have a "real" than actual real, because then I have to do whole restoration thing. 

But the thing is that I haven't checked the stamp on the engine block until now, and it tells us that this isn't the original engine.

What the stamping tells us is that this engine was made in Tonawanda plant, August 30th, and engine code is CXA, which translates to 1974 454, 235 hp and TH.

So, I got 58 cubic inches more than I bought for, although it has only 235 SAE horses, as it was built after the big horsepower era was over, due oil crisis and insurance policies in the USA.