Time to acquire a El Camino again?

 So, it has been a loooong time since I posted. Now I have been thinking of acquiring a El Camino again. The thing is that even thought I always wanted a 1970 El Camino, and I had that and I started this blog because of it, but now I am thinking of getting a 1969 El Camino. Now, this blog's title is 1970elcamino... 

Should I keep title, and get the '69 or should I get the '70 and everything is a-okay. Then again, I have thought about getting my '70 back. Even thought I sold it as there was too much history with it, with my now ex wife. Time has passed and we are in good relations, me and ex. I still have the number for the guy who bought it from me four years ago.

Then again, "new" is new, but 3rd gen El Caminos are rarely for sell in here. I have a notification agent active in local national car sale website and currently there are few 3rd gen El Caminos for sale, but either the asking price is way too high or there is something wrong and the price is too high for the condition. 

One option is always to buy one from the US and get it shipped here. Friend of mine has a connection in the Los Angeles area and we have talked about it. The guy in LA is Finnish and he scouts the possible cars for clients and takes pictures and videos and is very thorough about it. So you'll know what you are buying. The thing is of course it takes time to get it from the US to Finland. And even if it would be driveable, I couldn't drive it in this season. 

The second problem is that where should I park it? I live in a row house and I have two parking spaces next to each other so I could park it there, but it's parking lot. No roof or any protection from the weather. I have been looking for a house with a big enough yard and that has a garage or I can build one. Where I live houses are quite cheap so that ain't a problem, but choices for living close to work, as I do have less than 5 min with bicycles, but no garage. Buy a house with a garage and it's going to be 10 km away from my work, so I had to travel most of the year by car.

Maybe I should start by buying that house first and then the El Camino?

Atrocity founded on the Facebook

Long time no post. I guess my interest went out of the garage as my El Camino. Well, now I am kind of missing that I sold my El Camino back in '17. There was reasons why I did it, but past is past and there is no reason to dwell in the past. At least it went to owner who took care and have been driving it ever since. Just last summer friend of mine hit me a message that she has seen my Ex-El Camino in a happening. I am glad.

Now, I do have a few shortcuts in my browser to search 3rd gen(LA Craigslisting) El Caminos(SF Craigslisting) for sale in USA. So, I am looking for a "new" El Camino, but I am between two choices, do I buy a 1970 again or should I buy 1969 model? As my first El Camino was 1972 and after that I had 1971. And the third was this 1970. So I could go for streak from 1972 to 1968, in where next would be that 1969.  I am kind of torn between the choices.

On second note why I started to write this posting is this:

I don't know what to make out of it? Why? Why not?

Almost five months...

...since last post. Nothing special happened actually, well... we did tried to start the engine while we had our garage's chrismast party in december and it did ran, but not great and we checked the pressure in the cylinders and #1 was a bit more lower than rest but not catastrophical low. I am now battling with taking the engine out and disassembling it, get it cleaned, machined, assembling it back together or just paying running 305/307 engine and drop it in for the summer or two and taking my time with the original engine or coughing up 3k for some LS-family engines that are now kind of flooding our market in here.

A year ago there wasn't practically any engines for sale, but now this winter there has been plenty of LM7/L59/LM4 or LR4 engines for sale. And not too expensive too. Easy 300 horses under your hood. Right now this option is not valid since me and wife are still financially recovering our long sick leave we both had at the end of last year. And that is one reason nothing hasn't happenend in the garage. Now we both are better, thank you very much for asking.

Last weekend I went short trip to my home town to visit my mother and pick up some parts for the El Camino. Actually parts are from 1971 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, but those will fit.

Some dash wire harness.

 

Heater box.

 

Rear springs.

 

AC core.

Some AC vents for the dash.

 

Dash with round gauges!

And the guage cluster.