Hey

european owner!!!! you sleep??????

:evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

Nope, just woke up! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Not too many of us Europeans around here but we're here nevertheless :cool:
So where are you located?

i stay in north ITALY

and You?

I'm in Norway, by the Sognefjord(the worlds longest and deepest,by the way).
It's cool to see that there are more european members around her. I've seen swedes,dutch,finns,germans and norwegians here, but not italians :) . That's cool.
Anyway, take advantage of the knowledge on this site, it's really amazing!

Merry X-mas :xmas:

ahahaha el camino is big car for litle country!!!!

Merry X-mas

Glad to have both of you with us! We do have lots of members in Europe, by the way. Our Regional Director is Maikel Joosten of The Netherlands. He has a huge show for El Camino owners every year. Please get in touch with him at:

maikel_meijel@hotmail.com

I know he'll be happy to hear from you! Merry Christmas

yes !!! i know maikel......
i send mail 2 or 3 years a go!!!

ciao :D

Hi guys,

I live in the uk. Glad to see there are a few other guys from Europe :)

Mark

hi
a swedish elky owner here.
My elky is in costa rica for the holidays

merry x-mas

Looks like chevyboy woke up some Europeans in this thread :lol: :lol: !
That's cool!! There's bound to be some El Caminos in Europe too and since the El Camino Central is one of the coolest sites on the web we're bound to notice :-D !
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

:xmas: Merry x-mas guys!! :xmas:

THAT'S COOL :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Hi there!

Another Elky from Latvia ;)

WELCOME :-D

Welcome Ugis! :-D
I've never seen anyone from Latvia here so it's a pleasure to welcome you.
Btw very nice Elky you got there :cool: .

...one more from Sweden.....
just posted som pics on my 60 Elky in Meber Cars.
It's a daily driver with a CSB400, but now the weather isn't so good and it's only in primer, so she's relaxing in the garage now.

Nice to see that there are some Europeans out there.

Take care //Lelle

Hi from Estonia
74 El Camino with 350 TPI ,TH 700 R4
see pics on 4th gen section
Juss74elc

welcome!!!!!!!!!! :D

As stated in the "new members" forum, one more near at Stuttgart, Germany:

'68 396SS with 350/T400 at the moment :)

Hi Guys. Another newbie here. Just joined today(20/2/07). I'm on the outskirts of London, England. I got a '65 in black with a 60thou over 350 with a 'glide going back to a 10 bolt posi.

Just thought i'd say hello,
Roger

good guys :D

:banana: Velcome!! :banana2:

Hi!

One more from Sweden. We have a ´60 that we use for companycar and drive the whole year. :cool:

Welcome from Norway, neighbour 8) , eller tjenare granne som ni kanskje ville seja :lol: !
Enjoy this enormous vault of El Camino knowlegde :cool: !

Hello

Another one from norway here 8)
Drives a 59 camino and lives 2 hr outside of oslo

Velkommen! Trivelig å se flere nordmenn her :nanawrech: ! Jeg har sett vogna di på amcarforum.no, får vel få ut fingern og melde meg inn der snart jeg også :lol: !
Uansett, her finner du utrolig mye info om El camino fra alle årganger, nyt! 8)

Takker for det...
ja må nok melde deg inn der 8)
Og på frantzenracing.com... der er det bra med trafikk..

hello I'm from finland. Nice to see you people here. (I'm not finnish)
305 cid - low budget car :)
http://elcaminocentral.com/modules/Forums/images/photos/58c3183f46e25ac32f887.jpg

Hi, from Germany.
Here's my introduction....

http://elcaminocentral.com/ftopict-23112.html

Welcome fellow Europeans 8) !

Finnish daily winterdriver -79.
Visible it at suspension topic that i opened because of worn spindles.

http://elcaminocentral.com/ftopict-24217.html

And a big hello from eastern part of Germany . . .

Nice to meet you guys . . .

Hello, Hej, ciao, hallo, tere, me too from Finland. I'd like to visit many countries in Europe with my ElCamino, but latest fuel consumption was again 20 liter/100 km comparing to motorcycles average 6,8 l/100 km. Anyway I should once in the lifetime (try) top speed in Germany - as far as you are even there allowed to drive more than 130 km/h. Sweden, Estonia and Norway are realistic places to hit, perhaps even UK, Scotland one day? We'll see.

Welcome people :D !

Hello everybody.

Now a Dane has joined this great site.

Greetings from Jacob.

Hello everyone,

Here is somenone from the Netherlands that joined this site.

Maybe meet some of you at the Power Big Meet (www.bigmeet.com) in Vasteras this year.
This year not with my El Camino :-( , but my friends '73 Monte Carlo :-P .

Greetings,


Sietse

Hello!

One more from Estonia. 73 SS 454 under construction 8)

Hi Taavi,

Welcome to El Camino Central, from the Netherlands.

I´m sure you will enjoy it.

Regards,


Sietse

Hello out there!I didn`t think that so many El Caminos here in Europe!I`m from Germany!Is there any Meetings of Elkys in Europe 2009?

hello people,
we have some el caminos in Poland, here's mine '77, before & after...

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tuned port engine, th700r4, 3.08 lsd, daily driver

dear european el camino freaks

for this year we plan a big 50 anniversary event in meijel netherlands

all elky from europe are welcome

i can tell you a date for the event this weekend, my last visits with t he bar and the major are friday...

i'll let you guys know, what where and when..

don't miss out for the big one...

greetings maikel

Hello,

Finnish, soon to be 1970 Elky owner... Can't wait it. 5-7 weeks and she'll be mine...:nanawrench:

It has been a very very long time since I had a 1971 Elky. And finally I got the Elky that I have dreamt from very first Elky that I had. It was 1972 model, all matte black, 350 cid with a PG. Next was 283 cid with a PG too. Now its 350 cid again, but with a TH350. Last login to this site was: 02-17-2005 at 07:33 PM. Well.. It's about time. :)

Welcome Back! Be sure and give us some pictures when you get it.

Thanks, since my last Elky I have a picked up new hobbies and one of them is photography, so you'll get those more than enough... :)

Greetings from Copenhagen, Denmark.
I just joined this site today.
I have an 84 El Camino with a brand new 355cui, 20" Irocs and much other stuff.
Nice to see other europeans in here, but not many danes though. :)

http://bilgalleri.dk/uploads_large_wm/1049699.jpg

Welcome Lars!

Nice looking '84 you got there. I was thinking about 5th generation elky for dailydriven before I saw an opportunity to grab my unicorn, '70 elky from ebay, which was in my budget. Sadly pick-up has been delayed the shipment and waiting for a news when they can get in a container and on the ship.

Welcome Lars!

Nice looking '84 you got there. I was thinking about 5th generation elky for dailydriven before I saw an opportunity to grab my unicorn, '70 elky from ebay, which was in my budget. Sadly pick-up has been delayed the shipment and waiting for a news when they can get in a container and on the ship.


Really nice. Appart from 59 and 60, the 70 El Camino is deffinetely my favorite year. One of the good things about El Caminos is, that they´re still in a reasonable price range, compared to , for example, Chevelles and Impalas, from the same years. I hope for you that the shipping firm will get a move on, so you can have your car soon. Looking forward to see pictures.

Thanks. Just got news that my elky has been picked up from the seller and it's on her way to Florida to be shipped... :inlove:

I have noticed that '72 Elkys prices are on rise, since my previously owned '72 and '71 was pretty decent condition and they cost around little less than 3k€, now what I have seen in here Finland prices starts around 4k€ with v6! And I had V8...

And there aren't too many '70's on sale around here. Except some altered for dragracing... So, I bought one from the Ebay. :)

Hi,
Very many 68s over there?
Donny

I'm flabbergasted...no wonder I can't find parts...they're all spread out over Europe! Just kiddin...hello to all you guys. You guys must get a lot of second looks driving around in Elkys over there.

DDD, do you mean 68's in Finland? Not that many. Mostly 72's in here. And in a sidenote, my '70 has arrived in Florida, in shipping company and she is waiting to be shipped. Got few better pictures and seems to be straight sides, but couple of rust holes in each side. I was expecting that, since the price was low. Nothing bad though. I guess first summer goes by just driving and joying it. I'll keep you all posted. Cheers, Lemmy

Another HI! :-D from Finland.
Red -72 here as a company delivery pick up. Making some minor mods on it now, let´s see how it comes out...

'72 as a company delivery pick-up? What and where do you work at? :)

hello there

here another one from the netherlands
i drive a 79 camino
now with the 305ci but soon with a gm performance zz4 350ci
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g170/fred-camino/allerlei/126-2612_IMG.jpg
http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g170/fred-camino/elcamino/25062009023.jpg
the new engine has to be in place for the meeting in september



and the date for the european 50th anniversery meetiing is 18 /20 september in meijel
info you can get from maikel

hello to all from germany! great to see some other european people here. my boyfriend and me own a 1975 el camino ss and we try to get to the 50th anniversary meeting in meijel. perhaps we meet some of you there!

i posted some pics here in my new member post: http://elcaminocentral.com/showthread.php?p=195176#post195176

greetz, natalie :)

Hi!
One more german guy from the center of Europe: BOCHUM.
I own my Elky since 1995.
It is a true SS396 from 1968. Engine is a 454 LS6 with a lot of goodies around.
Tranny is a modified TH400. Rear end is 12 bolt Posi-equipped. New flowmasters on a 3" exhaust.
I love my car for its brutal sound and the neverending torque. When I put the pedal to the medal I cut off parts of the street and the feeling adrenalizes me...
I think it is very close to good sex.

CHEERS!

Yikes, it has been slow year for us European owners...

Last summer went driving and attending Finnish cruising night's and bigger meetings around Finland. This year is going to be same, except we are driving up and down Finland on this summer vacation. That's about 800km straight line in one way. What are your plans?

Well, here is another new member in Europe - Switzerland to be exact. I bought the 1973 El Camino that was in many episodes of 'My Name is Earl' a few years ago. So when I drive it around in Geneva or France, where we have a second home, I may get some looks of recognition, although not too many people see to have watched the show when it was on TV here.
I think we need to have another get-together sometime soon, like next summer? From the posts here, we should do it close to Finland (although, is any place close to Finland except Finland itself? :dontknow:

Transportation is being arranged, so it will take up to two months before she is here but when she is, I will post some pictures. It's a 454 and I can't wait to see what sort of power there is.

welcome c
thats cool,,just wondering where did you find it for sale?
good luck with the new elky..:texas:

Thanks for the welcome - how I found the owner + car is a bit of a story. After the show got cancelled I was looking from time to time ("LFTTT") on the net to see if I could find out what had happened to it. Then late last year I found out - that it had been sold at auction (Mecum) and had brought something like $6,500. I found out too late obviously and was bummed at that. But I kept LFTTT and then, in february found out that the car had been sold once again at auction (Barrett Jackson), and that the price had gone up to $9,000 plus 10% buyer's commission. So this time I got closer but still no cigar. Finally, as I kept LFTTT, about two weeks ago I found a post on the G3GM forum where a member said a friend of his had bought the car. I sent him a PM, he put us both in touch, and it took us maybe 5 minutes to agree on a price. I figured this opportunity would not come knocking a fourth time so I better snap it up if I really wanted it. I am very much looking forward to getting the car here (remember I bought sight unseen, and have actually never driven in any El Camino) and maintaining and enjoying it for many years.

wow cool story,,and a elky with some movie star history,,guess it will be a long wait..wtg :texas:
saw your post on imcdb.. x2 keep it the same..

Just curious... How's the gas prices over there?

Gas prices went up a lot since I moved to Switzerland end of '09. Now it's around CHF 1.90 per liter which, in US$ and gallon equivalent, should be around $6.70 per gallon if I did all the conversions right. Around half of that is government taxes.

The good news is distances tend to be shorter here.

Hi,
Very many 68s over there?
Donny
A guy I know over here in England has a 67-68 with a blown 502. If you go on facebook and search for Krispy Kreme meet then there are hundreds of pics from the last 5+ years including this car flexing it's muscles. There's also a couple of my black on black 65.
Cheers, Rog.

Once again:
68´s are rare, though we have three of´em here in Bochum. Two SS 396 and a low-budget import last year (350/350).
In germany should be around 20 `68 Caminos.
I like the meeting in the netherlands (Hello Meikel :hail2: ). I visit this meeting each and every year since he started and I will be back in 2011 (tenth anniversary, right?)
So everybody from europe: take your car and come to Meijel!
C U there! :spiral:

I've seen pics of ya'lls get togethers, super cool!!!! Now if I can get one of you to hide me and my 68 in your luggage......
Donny

If I was just able to post some pics, you´d have a look at three 68 models here in Bochum. But obviously i´m too stupid...:banghead:

I'd post a couple of mine but for some reason I'm not able to, not to my profile or to any album. Haven't got a clue why. Hohum...Rog.

Hi,
Very many 68s over there?
Donny

Hey Donny, Got a 68 Malibu with a 327ci.
Can check the pics on my profile. Will add some more shortly as I got it for the last month :nanawrench: