i wanna know what everyone thinks...

Couldnt have said it beter 87ElCamino...

although i think my mom would quickly answer that i was the ugliest. :P

Boy, I don't think I'd stir this pot :-D I'd like one of every generation of Elky. While you're at it, throw me in a '70 GMC Sprint.

like i said.... ijust wanna know what everyone thinks...we all have our preferences

The one called the Raunchero! I know the true story of how it came to be, you see, Ford Motor Company begged (on their knees mind you) GM for permission to make a vehicle similar to the El Camino. But if Ford did, they would be violating copyright laws. GM gave them permission but only after Ford agreed to let the GM designers design the Raunchero. Now those designers weren't stupid. They figured that if they designed something as ugly as the Raunchero that it would not sell well except to the hardest of die hard Ford fanatics. Now to make a long story short, those GM designers were correct in their thinking. And that is why the Raunchero is the ugliest El Camino you will ever see! I used to tell this story everynight to my son when he was little as I tucked him in for the night! :lol:

I can't believe you don't like my truck! :mad:

No just kidding :P

I really do like em all. Each successive generation has its own character to it. Each one speaks of a different time where things were viewed differently. The first generation being from the "Jet Age" Rockets and Flying Emblems spewing out as to say "Look Out I coming through!" Likewise GM designer folded the fins down like wings. Buck Rodgers type lights in the back, Smile on its face. Expansive room.

Still with a rocket type body design the second generation grew from the 64 to the 67 to be more sharper in the front. The 68 design changed dramatically and evolved through 72. So many really Muscle looking Muscle cars with huge horse power engines. Then EPA started designing cars' Motors. So Goodwrench put Luxury and Handling over speed and performance. So the fourth Generation cars and El Caminos were built for the ride and comfort. Heavy from safety laws enacted and anemic from EPA 's understanding of the Internal Combustion Engine. Still they have class.
The final generation went through lots of other EPA requirements while GM was attempting to re-tool "Modernize" and generally phase out the last of the big metal rear wheel drive cars, including but not limited to the Camaro.

So I think each one tells a story. If you're the driver and you listen really well you hear it. And then I smile. :D

now that is an opinion! see this is what i am looking for people's stories and opinions!! that is soo true to! the Ranchero is probably one of the ugliest things i have ever seen!

now that is an opinion! see this is what i am looking for people's stories and opinions!! that is soo true to! the Ranchero is probably one of the ugliest things i have ever seen!

Pete, no ones gonna believe that story!

hell at this rate i might have topic of the week with everyone posting and voting there opinions!! :-D

Pete, no ones gonna believe that story!

I do. 8O 8)

You never listen to your car? It doesn't speak to you?!

if i told my shrink my car spoke to me i wouldnt be typing this right now, id be in a 2 x 4 padded cell. :P

Yes Pete, my Elkys' speak to me every night in Elky dream land. They tell me what they want and they tell me what they need. Then they tell me how much they love me for taking care of them and looking out for them. Then they wisk me away to Elky la la land! :inlove:

and i'm the one who needs a shrink... :lol:

oh yeah well my elky does tripple lutz backflips and sings me to sleep with its beautiful sounding engine!!! and brings me presents!! :xmas:

o.0 does the el camino cause the insanity or does the insanity cause the el camino? you guys are all nuckin futs.

Why yes, I do believe we are!

why else would we all be on here talking about el camino's? because we are interesting people!

i guess interesting is a good word for it :lol:

ur just jealous cause the voices talk to us and not you :P

Watch out how you talk to Skull (hint...his name is SKULL) he used to own a hearse and quotes Charlie Manson!

ooooOOoooOOOoo i'm shakin in my boots!! :cry: :P ha ha please i fear nothing i drive an elky!

i never owned a hearse, you must have mistaken me for someone else. i aspire to own a hearse though.... or maybe ill just bolt a coffin to my truckbed. :cool:

Yes Pete, my Elkys' speak to me every night in Elky dream land. They tell me what they want and they tell me what they need. Then they tell me how much they love me for taking care of them and looking out for them. Then they wisk me away to Elky la la land! :inlove:

So what are you trying to say? I'm, uhhh, I'm Uhhh just a left turn shy of a complete block? I'm Crazy? Insane? Bonkers, tosted, one tow over the line, one card shy of a full deck, Dancing on the Sunny Side of the road?

Thats alright, I can always go talk to my truck it understands me. :inlove: :roll: :crazy: :bomb:

he's saying you're 7 pistons short of detroit muscle :lol:

Okie Dokie :lol:

oh man.... my shrink got angry when i told her i could fit 4 bodies in my elky.... :P its just a simple fact, not like i would really have 4 in there at once!!!

yea i know you would probably stack em up double to fit 8!!! :lol:

You all have gone off the deep end.

Laughed so hard I'm glad I looked at the posts at home tonite, if I did this at work I'd get canned. Then how could I afford all that sheet metal?

My elky speaks to me from the garage. I'm sure you've all heard "rust never sleeps".

Dan (from the land of Hoffa)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. An Elky is an Elky and only those who have GREAT taste own one.

thats a good point...thats why i only have one....one is plenty

Love the Ranchero story. Think I'll "borrow" it. 8O

trying to imply something with that sign are we???? :stupid:

wow seems as though most of everyone thinks the 4th generation is the ugliest :lol:

That's okay, in the fullness of time our babies will come to be recognized for their sublime beauty, Rubenesque though it may be.
:inlove:

i think that the 1st and second gen is the ugliest they don't have the curved transition between the bed and the cab like the 4th gen's do... hell none of them do except the 4th gens... and the 5th gens are just two small... the 3rd gens rocked but the 4th gens are definitely second... when it comes to looks i never liked the boxy look of the 5th gens... plus you can haul a lot more in a 4th gen... they are more truck than car... And when they are painted black they they really stand out... i never understood why people down the 4th gens they are good looking trucks..

The better question would have been which gen looks best.

At least I am sure about my answer on that one: Third Gen!


But I like them all.

........... i never understood why people down the 4th gens they are good looking trucks..

Talk about reiving the dead... :P Last posting on this thread was 2003!

4th gens are so misunderstood! I was just telling mine, the other day, how it's not that people think it's ugly, they're just jealous! :lol: :lol: :lol:

They all rock! :rockon: Especially MINE! :cry: :P 8)

This is reminiscent of dog show logic. Though many breeds are present, all are judged by certain qualities and standards. An Elky should be judged the same way. It's not the generation that matters but how well it is presented.

Nevertheless, we all have our preferences. In a dog show, I may find a Puli to be "ugly" because of all of that hair. However, underneath all of that hair, there's probably a really nice looking dog. Fourth gens. are like that for me. They're not my favorite, but who am I to knock it if another sees the beauty in it?

8) I just like all ElCaminos in general. While my first one was a 59(Gen.I) and I wish I had it back I now own a 77(Gen.4) that I saved from the crusher. I hated the look of them when that body style came out. While searching for an Elky I found my favorite was out of my financial reach in a restoreable form and the Gen.5s were too numerous to appeal to me (besides most were so rusted around here) and the other years were non-existent or too over priced for me. That was when I ran across the 77 and saved it. Now it is going on 10 years and after selling it and buying it back 2 times from one of my sons I am finally getting it towards paint. I had it 3 years and sold it to my son after I hurt my back and couldn't work on it but found I missed it a lot and when it broke down on him he asked if I wanted it back and I jumped on it! Yes the bodystyle I hated as a new design had grown on me. I got her running and was driving her every day when my son decided he wanted her back so since I still owed hom for her Ilet her go again. Then he bought a ricer and decided he didn't want her again (his girlfriend didn't like trucks) so I bought her back and now I would not let her go for anything. I even was told about a 59 that was nice shape and reasonable but had no interest in it. Yes I love my 4th Generation Elcamino! But then I love them all! :cool:

(Holy old thread resurrection, Batman!)

you can haul a lot more in a 4th gen... they are more truck than car... And when they are painted black they they really stand out... i never understood why people down the 4th gens they are good looking trucks..

Amen, brother!

http://elcamino.upiprime.com/forums/loaded.jpg

4th gens may seem like boats to alot of you....But fixed up right they look mean! :cool:

I'm happy with mine.

http://www.scaldinghotelcamino.com/gallery13/091.jpg

4th gen are my 2nd favorite, I just never cared much for the 5th gen, I plead the 5th, I like that.

Great thread but I agree with camino LS6, the way the question is worded implies all caminos are ugly which isn't true no matter what my wife says

Man, I think they're all beautiful and I would not hesitate to make love toooooo.... errrr..... :oops: I mean, uhhhh, I would not hesitate to own any year! It's like asking which of these 5 hot supermodels is the ugliest? Well, since there has to be an answer I guess it's going to be the supermodel that's carrying around the extra 10 pounds and has the bdonka donk butt! Even though she's still smoking hot! :P

Well, since there has to be an answer I guess it's going to be the supermodel that's carrying around the extra 10 pounds and has the bdonka donk butt! Even though she's still smoking hot!
We can read between the lines, there Maddening.... you're referring to a 4th gen, huh? :mad:

I go back to a previous post I made elsewhere about the old Queen song:... "Fat-bottomed girls you make the rockin' world go 'round"... :lol:

I like a bdonka donk butt! :oha: Not a baaaadoooonka dooonk butt :barf: but just a bdonka donk butt! :D Hey I never thought of my Elky as having a bdonka donk butt, that is kinda cool! 8-) I'm not making it go on a Subway Diet till it gets a Pot Belly with a double order of love handles and Cottage Cheese thighs! :fluffy:

double order of love handles

I guess they called them bumpers to be kind :poke:

I like a bdonka donk butt! :oha: Not a baaaadoooonka dooonk butt :barf: but just a bdonka donk butt! :D Hey I never thought of my Elky as having a bdonka donk butt, that is kinda cool! 8-) I'm not making it go on a Subway Diet till it gets a Pot Belly with a double order of love handles and Cottage Cheese thighs! :fluffy:

lol... I don't even remember posting that! Well, I mean I kinda do, but I forgot til just now.

Baby got back!

:P

how did we go from ugly elky debate to badonkadonk butt?!?

beauty is in the eye of the beholder,this pole is a little silly :?

My elky sez its happy it now has a garage but that's no exuse to put off bodywork and a new paint job! It also says it has a crush on my boyfriend's cutlass :inlove:

how 'bout an elky hauling thread that would be cool 8)

how did we go from ugly elky debate to badonkadonk butt?!?

beauty is in the eye of the beholder,this pole is a little silly :?

My elky sez its happy it now has a garage but that's no exuse to put off bodywork and a new paint job! It also says it has a crush on my boyfriend's cutlass :inlove:

how 'bout an elky hauling thread that would be cool 8)

I agree, it's just silly. We all know that the rear ends we have are just fine the way they are. Having said that it's clear that some would like to beef them up a bit and that's just fine too-so long as they do it for the right reasons :D

hehe...good thing my friend isn't a part of this, he's got a 74 ranchero. was his first car that he bought of his grandfather when he was 16. he drove it 2 yrs and his parents bought him a 83 trans am. since then(summer of 93) it's been parked up north, rutted in the ground. it would probably take a 4x4 to pull it out.

OK, some models of the 4th gen are "goofy". Camper caps that look like they will slide off, rubber strips in the center of the bumpers (what was that all about?). Doors that are five feet long and sag at the hinges after ten years and need new pins and bushings every five years.

But, shave all the trim, smooth the bumpers, dump the camper cap and add a vynle bed cover; and they are smooth and flowing. A simple pin stripe along the top of the fender, top of the door and top of the quarter really sets off the nice flow.

It's like the ugly duckling story!

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GEEZ, HOW DO YOU ADD A .JPEG PHOTO TO THE POST??????

Elky77

Hey Elky77, if you want to post a pic, sign up with a site like photobucket. Upload a pic there then select the [IMG IMG] text string and add that to your post here on ECC. The pic will/should display.

Oh, BTW, "4th gen are goofy"??? :cry: I like all generation Elkies and proudly have my 4th :)

The poll SHOULD have been-----
What is your favorite generation of Elky

That being said

First gen is my favorite------59 specifically (thus the screen name)
Second gen is next----------66 specifically (have 2 of these as well)
Third gen----------------------68
Fourth gen---------------------Getting generic here--has to be fully loaded car
Fifth gen-----------too small and plain, but were coming around by 86. By that time the trim and the grill developed a bit of elegance, but the 4-spd was gone. The 5th gen elkies looked just like the Impalas and Montes.

No real UGLY Elkies-----some just have better lines than the others

Bryan

I'm the proud owner of a badonkadonk, goofy elky! :P

The results of this poll are slightly depressing, but the posts are hillarious!! Haha.

Call me crazy, but upon looking for an elky to buy, I looked at all the gens...except first...i don't have that much money...haha and I ended up with 4th because, well, among many reasons I think it has a very cute little face!

http://x31.xanga.com/044b963a2953153426124/s35824914.jpg

*hugs it* :-D

you guys realize the ranchero came out in '57 two years before the first elky, right?