I picked up few days ago a set of new door panels for my El Camino.
The El Camino
This is all about my dream car, Chevrolet El Camino 1970.
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Scored new door panels
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.
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.