Buying pants are on part 1

In Finland we have saying, put your buying pants on. Which means that you are ready to buy stuff.

I've been looking at listings on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and I come up with these two:

Yes, these were meant to be my project cars, that I can fix during those dark and cold winter days.

But as I thought about them more, might not be worth the time and effort to check it out. 

So, then I found out this:

Patina, yes. But front glass is broken. No photos of interior. Lot's of body rust and needs to be addressed. 

The Guy said that being 14 weeks old listing with that price, doesn't feel right. So I skipped it.

Then the Guy sends me this listing:

Okay, not bad at all in the first glance. But then I read the description and not currently running, but still have the original engine block. Well, that can mean a whole lot of deals, but since there aren't picture about engine bay. But even it is in nice condition on the exterior and interior, not functional with that $10k price tag. Yeah, there might be a chance to make an offer, but I'm not yet ready for this, even thought one of the best I've seen so far.

Okay, there was one really good 1970 El Camino available in Sweden, Blocket.se, but as I was talking about it with my friend, it was sold. Price was around 17k€( ~ $18k).

As the shipping takes from 4 months to 6 months, I am not getting it for this driving season, so I am not in a hurry to buy one that I can drive right away. Although I want one that I can fix and one that can be my daily driver.

I'll keep you posted!

The guy

As I have said, my friend has a guy on the west coast of the United States and he gave the guy's phone number to me and I send a WhatsApp chat with the guy. We talked about what I am looking for and laid up all my thoughts about my situation. I am still split between 1969 or 1970 El Camino, but I got a few pointers from the guy and since the price won't be that much of a deal for me at least. I am not going too much in detail what's commissions and such are, but a ball park figure is, depending how far from L.A. harbour is the El Camino, about $1500-2000.

Only bad part is that due the current world situations, pandemic and war in Ukraine, shipping time are extended from the normal time. The current estimate is from four months to six months. And maybe more. Depends on so many things. Which means that if I "bought" El Camino now, I might have a slight chance to drive it in this driving season before the first snow falls in the later this year.

Another thing is that I have used Craigslist as my search tool for the El Camino in the US, but the Guy sends me a link to Facebook marketplace near him and there are plenty of choices too. As much as I hate the Facebook and other social media, I am intrigued to search that marketplace since there are also available El Caminos for sale. eBay was also discussed, but it is mostly over priced vehicles for sale.

I think I am going to buy two El Caminos. One that I can drive and one that I can build the way I want it.

And I think I am leaning on getting 1969 El Camino to drive around and 1970 to build up, and maybe some day install that electric motor in it, that I've been thinking about.

Sunny drive

 So I was driving around with my daily driver, Volvo today and the weather was great, sunny and warm. As I was driving around on those countryside roads, it reminded me time when I had my El Camino. It was great to drive window down and your elbow on the door, half in, half out. Feel the breeze in the hair and just drive on the open road.

I just can't have that in my Volvo, for one it was early spring so you don't really want to roll down your window and freeze your elbow, and neck and what not. Secondly, it hasn't got that feeling, what you got in an old classic car, not to mention the lack of V8 sound.

And as I was driving I caught myself thinking about how much expensive the gasoline is nowadays. Back when I had my El Camino it cost something around 1,7€ per litre, now it cost 2,3€ per litre. And 72 litres to fill up the El Camino was then 122€, now it would cost 165€, 43€ more, with that I could drive Volvo for 300 km more. I know that the next El Camino won't be my daily driver, but to enjoy those sunny day off on the road and gatherings. 

Unless I can somehow convert El Camino as EV Camino.

I checked the Chevrolet Performance's webpage and saw this and I had to screen capture it and post it:

That's it for this post. 

Have a great spring!