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Necoa #: 7515
Location: 13(TX)
Joined: May 20, 2006
Posts: 117
Year: 1981
Model: El Camino
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:48 pm Post subject:
Ugly.
And to quote somebody from that forum, "change the wheels, reshape the nose, resubmit for my approval".
I just think they went way too retro with the front and rear styling. I don't think I like the SS rallye wheels on that ride either. And why a 454? I understand that it's the retro idea again, but why not a 6.0L or some modification of it?
I think it still needs a few revisions before it goes into production, but I would love for them to bring back the Chevelle... and then the El Camino line of it. I would much rather buy an El Camino than a Pontiac G8 ST.
I like it, too. Looks like 2nd generation Chevelle and late Monte Carlo combination. GM shoulda put that mill in the SSR. Probably would have sold a lot more of em. It would make a nice platform for the new El Camino.
Necoa #: 478
Location: 17(S.CA,S.NV)
Joined: Oct 10, 2002
Posts: 1637
Year: 1982
Model: El Camino
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:14 pm Post subject:
That car is several years old and has nothing to do with GM. It was an idea that Hot Rod Magazine had. They took a then new GTO and photographed it doing different things and then turned the pictures over to their graphics artists. The artists changed the pictures to look like their version of what a Chevelle would look like today. A company in Washington (I think) took it and started producing them. I think they were around $100k each. Don't know how many they made. Not a concept car. _________________ '82 El Camino with an LT1 from a 95 Impala SS
That thing is horrible looking. And to think, as Rob stated, that people were shelling out around 100K. Incredible. A 100K would buy an awfully nice 'real' Chevelle. _________________ Mark
1972 Elky Picture Album
My Dad used to have a great expression that I think very much applies here: "They should jack up the radiator cap and put a new car underneath it!"
But my own little witticism apples better I think: "Cars, like people, have a right to be ugly... but this one abuses the privilege!" _________________ Leo
1986 El Camino
1997 Lincoln Mark VIII LSC
"Randy! He drives an El Freakin' Camino! That's like the Cadillac of cars!"
Earl Hickey
I say do a front end something like that on the Holden and sell it as an El Camino. Skip the Pontiac thing!!
Mike _________________ "That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced." (Scientific American January 2, 1909).
LOOKS LIKE A GEN 2 OR EVEN A 68 69 THAT SOME SLAPPED TO HARD AND IT SWALLED UP. That is one bad design even if had a b54 BB I would not wish it on anyone. _________________ "69" SS 396/350 HP with a stock outside, stock underside, stock inside and a splash of chrome and polish in the engine area.
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Necoa #: 631
Location: 11(IA,NE,ND,SD)
Joined: Feb 16, 2003
Posts: 226
Year: 1981
Model: El Camino
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:
hel98 wrote:
I like it, too. Looks like 2nd generation Chevelle and late Monte Carlo combination. GM shoulda put that mill in the SSR. Probably would have sold a lot more of em. It would make a nice platform for the new El Camino.
Rick
It is the platform for the new el camino....lol
Thats a GTO, which is a holden monaro, which is the same as a commodore, which got updated last year, which is now the G8, and soon to be G8 ST.
I prefer it to all the kidney bean shaped crap that is the rage now -a-days at least it has some style---I'm not saying I would buy one even at a normal muscle car price currently but I would certainly consider it if I was in the market........................Dan _________________ I don't think I have ever had a car that was "FINISHED"........unless it was totaled.
Necoa #: 11872
Location: 18(N.CA,N.NV)
Joined: Jun 07, 2008
Posts: 5
Year: 1968
Model: El Camino
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:
If the grill didnt go above the headlights Id love it. I really dont think it should be called a chevelle though. Same with the new GTO. Completely badass car by all standards, but shouldnt be called a GTO.
You can look at the pictures of that GTO from the LAND DOWN UNDER and move emblems and air brush all you want but it still looks like
THE REAR END OF A SOUTH BOUND COW HEADED NORTH _________________ "69" SS 396/350 HP with a stock outside, stock underside, stock inside and a splash of chrome and polish in the engine area.
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