What Is It? - The Augusta Chronicle
He is a Chevy fan and has a few classics to include a couple of El Caminos. This time you pictured a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino pickup. The El Camino was introduced by Chevy in 1959 as a competitor to the Ford Ranchero pickup. “However, sales of the 1960 model were low so Chevrolet discontinued the model while Ford had more success with their Rancheros, which were now based on the brand-new Falcon compact (which was the car I drove during my college days in the early... “El Camino’s cargo volume also did not match that of other small pickup trucks. Chevrolet continued El Camino pickup production again a few years later and continued the model until the late 1980s. ”. Thanks to reader Engen for his reply. We had to trim responses for this page to get everyone in, but all the complete submissions are in the online version of What Is It. Unless specified otherwise below, our readers guessed 1960 El Camino:. AIKEN: Bob Ennis : “With the success of the Ford Ranchero, Chevy responded with the ’59 and ’60 El Camino. This is a 1960 Chevy El Camino. Source: chronicle.augusta.com
