...is about to begin. Well, actually has started as a market probe. To see what price ranges there are in Finland and US. One of my childhood friend has a connection in the west coast of the US and does scouting and recon gigs for clients. When we started talking about me getting an El Camino again, he suggested that he can scout the Craigslist in California and he can handle the whole transaction with his guy and the seller, so I only have to say no and yes, and when I say yes, then pay the man. His connection handles whole deal in the States and shipping and only thing I need to in here is to have the El Camino registered and taxed, which is around 50€. My 1970 was about 55€ over ten years ago.
I have set notification on local online car sales website called nettiauto.com and I geet once a week a list with new or if ad has been altered.
There are couple of the 3rd gen El Caminos for sale, but now what I am looking for. Well, maybe that 1969, but it doesn't have air conditioner. And it's... well, maybe not judging the colour scheme without seeing it in live. Maybe I should try to have a look on next weekend?
Then there is of course the craigslist. Which is pain to try to find, when you are outside the US. I understand that it's main purpose is to use as local sales listing, but there used to be a third party website that crawled all craigslist site and find what you are looking for from every state and town.
The more I have thought about should it be 1969 or 1970, I am leaning on 1969. I like the aggressive nose and there aren't too many 1969 El Caminos in here too. Actually I could find out since our national car registery Traficom.fi has open data of all the cars that are on registery and is on-drive.
Uh, oh, over 5 million lines of data. Too large for Google sheets. Oh well. I'll check on that later.
But for few weeks I'm off location and I am not in hurry to get the El Camino.
