I am looking for any pics of a 68-72 elcamio that has been turned into a g***er. I can't seem to find any anywhere or people just didn't do it to those elcamino. Any help would be great thanks.
Not to rain on your parade, but that's the wrong body AND era for a nose up straight axle style car. O.K. g***er police, rip him a new one if you please (insert your stringent criteria for qualifying as a g***er here).
Maybe not nose up but the late '60s and early '70s was when straight axle cars were popular and legal on the track. Early '60s, on a sanctioned track the rules say "production type suspension". One of the things that we often forget is that this is a trad board and that for whatever reason we seem to have a '64 cut of date for traditional rides. I don't think that any of us really hate a street beast lookin' thing, they certainly don't bother me. The idea is that some of us want to build a mud bogger with slicks and call it a trad g***er and that is not the case. You have to realize that the Match Bash cars of the '60s were not run in what you or I could run as a g***er on a sanctioned track, unless of course they were old enough to have come from the factory with a straight axle. Anyway even though ABATES is not building a HAMB friendly car he has at least chosen the right era for the car he wants to build. I don't have any pics because I was usually too busy wielding a wrench in that era but there were plenty of that body style that raced in the gas cl*** of the time. Look on the g***er madness site and you should find what you are looking for.
I have been accused on here of being **** about g***ers. And probably rightly so. There is nothing wrong with a 68-73 El Camino done g***er style. It would have been a new car at the end of the g***er era but that was not unusual. I had a friend in H.S. (1972) that did a 69 g***er style, spring and ball joint spacers to get the front end up, long ladder bars and a hell bent for leather 396 with a four gear. Don't have any pictures, except in my head. Keep the front end at a reasonable height, do some long *** ladder bars and don't move the rear axle location or jack the rear too high and you've got an era correct Elky G***er.
I'm usually pretty opened minded about what anyone wants to do to their car, except when they are talking about a drag racing cl*** (g***ers) with specific rules. Yes, you could build your 68-72 El Camino to early 60's style, which was when the sky high cars were built. But it wouldn't be "the way they were". It'd be like putting a straight axle, long bars, etc. on a late 80's Camaro or something. It would definately be a Street Freak, just doesn't seem exactly right. Porkn******, I don't think you had to run original suspension under your G***er in the early 60's. As long as it was a suspension type that was common under ANY car you could use it. Didn't even have to be OEM stuff, just production TYPE suspension. Don Long sold lots of tube axles that were completely fabricated with no stock parts. I just looked at the 72 rule book and the suspension rules are the same as 64. "Full production type suspension must be employed." Time to go work on the Anglia for a while. Later, Larry T
Coolest thing I've seen this side of an El Camino g***er was a 1957 Pontiac Safari wagon cut into a pick up. Tree caught the back end of the car when it was several years old and the insurance co. junked it. Rear hatch moved right up to the canted pillars and looked factory smooth. Straight axle front, 421 2x4 crossram. Was called El Truck. After being pulled from a junk yard years later and put back on the road with a fairly stock 389, it burned to the ground as it sat beside a house that caught fire. Now the wagons are way too valuable to ever duplicate it, but it was cool.
I saw a '69 Chevelle g***er on ebay a while back that was **** *** ugly. I like oddball stuff but this thing was nasty looking.
El Camino G***er????????????????????????............ Do it, Let us look, Then we shall decide........................hum...........
I have some pictures on my computer at home. I'll see if I can dig a few out for you. People still put straight axles under cars in 68-72. I don't care what they call them, I like them if they are done right.
No reason to do a straight axle under it. Use some ball joint spacers to bring the front up a bit and you're good to go. The straight axle, nose high style was a small portion of g***er's in the first place and was being tamed down by the 70's. So do it mild and give it hell. No Street Freak needed.
The 66 in my avatar has a straight axle. But the real car is going to have some balljoint spacers and high lift JC Whitney springs in the front. Someone has been making new ball joint spacers and selling them on E-bay. The new ones are machined out of aluminum instead of being cast like the old ones. That's where I bought mine. Then again adding up the $$ for a complete front end rebuid/springs/ball joint spacers, you could probably buy a kit for a straight axle for not much more. Wack your frame and use 2x4 rails and a tube axle and you'd probably shed some weight over the stock stuff.
it'll be a street freak more than a g***er, but that won't make it any less cool. the biggest difference between the 60's and the 70's versions are the size of the front tires. the later ones had wide ovals all around...
In Ohio in the late 60"s to early 70" everyone rasied their cars as high as we could get em chevelles ,novas and all you name it it was the cool thing to do.Straight axles.ball joint lift kits,Highjacker air shocks ,stationwagon coil springs in the rear,big block elcamino springs and ball joint spacers was a big thing to do,8 quart oil pans and white headers,4inch crager ss in front and 10 inchers in the rear with m-50 tires.Baddest cars around were 69 Z28 camaros with elcomino springs and ball joint spacers in the front and high jackers in the rear with 4 inch ansens in the front and 10 ansens in the rear with N -50 in back
Dont ever do that to an elcamino .There's a guy over here in pendel who took an elcamino and made it a 4x4 I laugh at it every time I see it. 72 chevelle would make a good g***er but not a elcamino
heres a stout g***er from japan, its different but kinda cool too http://speedhunters.com/archive/2009/02/23/car-spotlight-gt-gt-rkm-toyota-stout-g***er.aspx
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