Hunt for the El Camino is on pause

 There has been all sorts of things in my life now and I had to put the search for my next El Camino on a hold for now. I do still look nettiauto.com and craigslist.org and my friend's friend is on a look out if there is the right one comes along. But I am not actively searching at the moment. 

I did get an email notification from nettiauto.com about new or changed listing and there was only one new/changes listing. 

It was 1969 El Camino that was previously for sale by private owner and it is now on sale through "car dealer". I put the car dealer on quotation marks because it ain't actively manned car dealer. 

The El Camino in question had asked price of 12500€ and it's now less than 9000€,

Now, I did dismissed previously because the asking price was quite high for the overall look and "feel" from the pictures. Now that it is on a sale under 9000€ it might be worth the trip to visit and see it live, how bad it actually is. 

The only problem is that it's 488 km away and that means roughly 6+ hours drive in one direction. And I have a dog. Which means round trip would take at least 12 hours and I would spend 1 hour at least there. That is too long, time for my dog to spend alone. I'll have to ask my ex-wife, if our dog could spend a week or two over hers. That way I would have time to make that trip and not to worry about my dog. 

Now, there are a few items that need to be addressed if I would buy this. First one is that there is no AC. That can be solved by installing an aftermarket AC unit. So not a big deal. 

Second is that it has a fuel tank in the bed. Not under it. That too can be solved, by installing it under or getting an original type fuel tank and install it under the bed.

Third one is that... hideous colour scheme. That's the biggest reason I didn't really think about it as a possible candidate previously, but now when the price is a kind of right price range it might be doable.