Another El Camino!
Just twenty minutes after I photographed an El Camino in someone's driveway, I photographed another one in a parking lot! This is a 1987 model.
As it turned out, 1987 was the last model year of Chevrolet's car-based pickup, by then was being made in Mexico. With the Ford Ranchero having ended production in 1979, and with the Volkswagen Rabbit pickup and the Dodge Rampage, based subcompact rather than intermediate passenger-car platforms, having bitten the dust after going nowhere in the U.S. market, there was no reason for the El Camino and its GMC twin (the Caballero, named for the Spanish word for "gentleman") to continue. The "coupé utility" market segment was indeed dead, though such vehicles remained popular in Australia.
Another El Camino!
Just twenty minutes after I photographed an El Camino in someone's driveway, I photographed another one in a parking lot! This is a 1987 model.
As it turned out, 1987 was the last model year of Chevrolet's car-based pickup, by then was being made in Mexico. With the Ford Ranchero having ended production in 1979, and with the Volkswagen Rabbit pickup and the Dodge Rampage, based subcompact rather than intermediate passenger-car platforms, having bitten the dust after going nowhere in the U.S. market, there was no reason for the El Camino and its GMC twin (the Caballero, named for the Spanish word for "gentleman") to continue. The "coupé utility" market segment was indeed dead, though such vehicles remained popular in Australia.