el-camino ever done?

[Mark Faul]

Originally Posted by thomas sheehan

Gary Faul from 2009....

I miss racing this car! Anyone wanna buy a 1996 Grand Am rolling so I can take engine/trans and go back to the old girl? ;o)

ElCaminos actually work fairly well. Of course mine was a 283/PG so not a ton of torque.

[bill dedman]

Dunno if anybody else will remember this, (and this is, at best, second-hand information) but, before the whole "hydro in a sedan delivery" debacle got started (I saw my first one in1965) somebody on the West Coast with NHRA's blessing, campaigned a 1st-generation El Camino with a triple-carbureted, 348-powered /hydramatic Stocker, and I believe that might have been the first NHRA-approved hydro-in a Chevy "truck" racecar in Stock Eliminator. I THINK I saw it at the 1962 Indy Nationals, and it was red.

Can anyone confirm this? I'm pretty sure it must have been Indy, because I was living in Arkansas at that time; not going to the Coast for races back then. The next time I saw mention of a "Hydramatic/Chevy," was when the national record for H/SA was set in 1965 by a team from Washington-stste (Anglin-Clark-VanDill). They had the e.t. record while Marv Ripes had the MPH with his Powerglide car. That's when the fight started...lol!!.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by bill dedman

Dunno if anybody else will remember this, but (and this is, at best, second-hand information) but, before the whole "hydro in a sedan delivery" debacle got started (I saw my first one in1965) somebody on the West Coast with NHRA's blessing, campaigned a 1st-generation El Camino with a triple-carbureted, 348-powered /hydramatic Stocker, and I believe that might have been the first NHRA-approved hydro-in a Chevy "truck" racecar in Stock Eliminator. I THINK I saw it at the 1962 Indy Nationals, and it was red.

Can anyone confirm this? I'm pretty sure it must have been Indy, because I was living in Arkansas at that time; not going to the Coast for races back then. The next time I saw mention of a "Hydramatic/Chevy," was when the national record for H/SA was set in 1965 by a team from Washington-stste (Anglin-Clark-VanDill). They had the e.t. record while Marv Ripes had the MPH with his Powerglide car. That's when the fight started...lol!!.

I remember the El Camino from an old Hot Rod Magazine but I dont remember the owner/drivers name. It was either a 59 or a 60 model. They considered the El Camino to be a truck for the reason to allow the hydo.
Mybe someone like Chuck Norton will remember or it might come to me later.