1959 Chevrolet El Camino

[@richardcraniumdicksinn3959]

El Camino. The motorized mullet. Favorite GM ride for me. Had a 72' back in the day. Limited passenger room is definitely a plus. No kids, no dogs 👍

[@dennisleporte2327]

no greater way to say my wife is barren XD

[@canineguy672]

I wish they would bring the El Camino back. It was the coolest car sighting in my neighborhood during the 60s and 70s. They're unique and may not be the most practical hauler, but people really liked the style and they were real head turners in my neighborhood.

[@A.fordbey.99]

Rick Roos just brought one

[@LJC5865]

Not looking obese like today having 380 side airbags..just roll up windows, great stereo, A/C and Cheap affordable.

[@isaiahvillarreal4512]

First car I ever bought back in 81 was a 59 RANCHERO for $500. Still have it. But I’ll admit the El Camino is gorgeous. Just recently found out that the 59 Ford Fairlane was awarded most elegant car design for 1959 by the Italians. But I’m still a bit jealous of the 59 Chevys.

[@invisableobserver]

Mine was a 62 Falcon Ranchero, they were lightweight unibodies, I still have it too, I prefer the 57-59 except the weight & higher MPG. Though if I had a choice I'd take a 2 door wagon or sedan delivery, they were rare. The 59 impala line had a factory dealer option of front bumper dagmars ( . )( . )

[@isaiahvillarreal4512]

I always liked the 60/63 Rancheros. Don’t even see Falcons on the road anymore. Back in the 80s I passed on buying a neighbors 59 Ford wagon for $1000. Also in 87 I was dead tired walking home from the park with friend, an old man places a for sale sign on a 60 Falcon for $100, I only had a few bucks on me so I ask everyone for whatever they got. All we had was $90 we drove it home. Still have that Falcon too.

[@raym1811]

I had one around 1991, bone stock and very solid, I drove it all over California for a year. At the time it was a cool but not very desirable car - but I liked it. One night I was parked in front of my girlfriend's apt in San Francisco and someone hotwired and stole it. The SFPD found it wrapped around a pole in Hunter's Point a couple days later. I let the city haul it off and never saw it again. Sure wish I had it now.

[@WINGGULLSEAGULL]

'59 El Camino's were the best & coolest, stylish & USEFUL !

[@texasww6853]

I had a 60 El Camino and a 72 SS loved em!❤️

[@privateprivate1865]

I think the 1960 looks far more attractive than the 59 ever did.

[@nzuncovered1845]

Yeah the front looks cleaner without those slots above the grill

[@everettjames1698]

My friend still has one after many years of sitting in his garage. I remember as a kid that some would put big campers on the back. I thought that it was so cool.

[@JimJones-zc9mk]

Bring back the El Camino.

[@alexsmiles252]

yes 1959 0ne ! maybe a little shorter tho

[@67marlins]

I'm a Ford & Mopar guy, buy I'm really glad you posted this- thanks. I love these vintage advertisements, and appreciate the chance to see this. Have a great Sunday.

[@spiff8862]

Like you, I'm a Ford/Mopar guy and I too appreciate these classic vintage commercials of all makes and models. Amazing it was filmed in color (might have been a Corp thing for the salesmen) since there weren't that many color tv's in 1959.

[@CRUISOMATIC]

Looks best in stock, unmolested form.

[@randallfrank5682]

I have seen many nicely customized El Caminos over the years.

[@gregorsamsa1364]

Stock definitely look best to my eyes. So many of them just look like ruined El Caminos to me

[@marcopalermo12]

I have a 79 that I have fully restored I love it!! I will keep it until I die. But man if I could get my hands on a 59 I wouldn’t care what money I would have to put in to it!!

[@daniellaubach7544]

I'd love to own one in either the SS or Royal Knight option.

[@robertmcwhinney4596]

The El Camino and Ranchero! Great automobiles!🤠👍

[@ce9345]

Wish they still made a car like that!

[@ferdjanklow3566]

'59 was the coolest year. Clark Gable eyebrows to cat eye taillights.

[@BingBangBye]

My favorite pickup car.

[@elkameno1959]

great to see this. I've heard of the commercials before but never have seen it.

[@johnbehneman1546]

Thank you so much.

[@plozikou]

Nice car/truck and nice wife too...

[@jeffjohns2906]

Love that car

[@lar4305]

They should make them again.

[@chargermaster3676]

lar4305 yeah but i feel like if they did they will do something that no body will like an a way some people perfer to leave something buried and not dug up

[@patbutete1722]

Puleez NO! Don't give them any ideas..... It will more than likely be an abomination much like the recreated Beetles and Minis and Mustangs and.......

[@tomsvenkesen2476]

lar4305 yees. i hate new cars alle New are comlite crap . And give a dam hvat peaple talk about safety about New crap cars.

[@lockonstratos7787]

Old down with a new model,that said I want it to still look like the old muscle cars.

[@EightTwoElco]

There is talk of them coming back, but it isn't set in stone just yet. From the concept images I've seen, it's not gonna be as good looking as the older models

[@lotsaluck721]

Bring back the 60’s

[@bryankerr9174]

A pickup and a station wagon made a baby in 1959.

[@josephmichniacki2835]

makes me want one!

[@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz11.11]

So did the grandfather clock or the bed get damaged loose in the back like that?

[@Greatdome99]

Well, I was pretty beautiful back then, too.

[@gpet23]

Apparently they’re still picking up bits of the old grandfather clock on hwy 34

[@randallfrank5682]

My first car was a beautiful black 1959 El Camino that I bought in the fall of 1964. it looked good, and I loved the design, but it was a mechanical piece of junk which I found out after a month of ownership. It was a car buying mistake that I have not forgotten. I still love that design though. I bought a new 1971 El Camino SS in April of that year and it was a dream to own.

[@bigglefty75]

I love them they are very fun to drive

[@timbertown.vintage]

Never really wanted one till I saw this. That 50's-60's marketing at its finest.

[@clarencesmith3431]

They really knew how to sale back then.

[@alsmith3957]

Sad, America has fallen . We were once great now we are at laughingstock of the world

[@richardc488]

What a great car!

[@heinzalbertbernhardt202]

Muy bonita camioneta. Wuawwww!

[@CHixon]

It wasn't the marriage of the Fleetside and station wagon, but a marriage of the discontinued Cameo P/U and the old sedan-converted-to-pickup that was so popular in the southwest

[@nickpanaritis4122]

Please bring back the El Camino.

[@mikevonkleist6767]

This thing is rare. I've never seen one. It would be cool to see what Dave Kindig does with one of these. If he can find one. Dave, there's a challenge.

[@electroimpex8897]

Back then where cars where CARS!

[@LearnAboutFlow]

And road deaths were high!

[@michaeltaylor9977]

I WANT this one!

[@Gs-nx5jy]

That was cool ,,,and a cool car

[@bengus8148]

Made these into the 70's and you could stick a 454 big block in one.

[@joserafaelgrangefuenmayor7744]

Me gusta la camioneta

[@lotsaluck721]

Damn nice car

[@Rick1959]

Gentleman's pickup.......Nice!!

[@buckyflywoodie3905]

What would have been the reaction and thoughts of the car buying public when they first saw that beautiful el camino in the show rooms!

[@Porsche996driver]

Exactly.

[@texasww6853]

OH YEA!! was my reaction

[@LearnAboutFlow]

This year's design was hideous, but later El Caminos were really good looking cars. The car showed here looks like some designer failed origami class.

[@artvandelay0073]

Loved the Sedan Delivery version of the '59 Chevy lineup as well, but something tells me that a lot of them got wasted in demolition derbies from back in the day...

[@jackallen6562]

Uh oh. I'm pretty sure that's Mrs.1959 Brookwood Wagon climbing into that comfy, car-like cab... but that's definitely not Mr. Wagon

[@1940limited]

Beautiful. I'll take a 283 V8 with 3-speed/overdrive.

[@cowboykody6775]

g bridgman Was that a option? I thought the 283 was with a 2speed power glide tranny?

[@1940limited]

Huh? The 283 is the small V8. Nothing to do with the transmission.

[@aaronplatt8714]

Best combination available that year.😀.

[@lutherdeloach5160]

@@1940limited l

[@1940limited]

@@lutherdeloach5160 What does I mean?

[@tolgaisncelik2191]

Garaj Dolapdere 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@simonstovebolt]

They had real talent and class back then now they just use each others design and put there badge on it

[@TrustJesusToday]

Clocks in cars back then were a big thing.

[@Porsche996driver]

This was as big a design breakthrough as anything ever ha. Jaws were dropping.

[@dennisleporte2327]

EL Camino !

[@thethrillofpattaya8404]

I Love It! There're loading it up while there're wearing suits and ties! BadAss fucking car!

[@Perich29]

good concept crossover car pickup.

[@vernwallen4246]

The 59 is the 🐈🐱meow.

[@fleetwin1]

yeah buddy!

[@MelancoliaI]

The introduction of the El Camino created a temporal rift, the ramifications of which will continue to altar and splice our reality. It is a car, it is a truck. It isn't a car, it isn't a truck. It is the thing that should not be. The only reason our current timeline hasn't completely diverged in twain was the marque's cancellation in 1987. Symptoms of its existence remain of course, the Mandela Effect being chief among those.

[@builtbydylan8315]

I love my 77

[@JimmyMakingitwork]

Like a Ridgeline, but cool.

[@stoneyswolf]

I've had a few 64-65 elcamino's. I've always wanted a 59-60 but they didn't sell as well so not as many around to find. I don't actually search for cars every car I've had was found by chance just sitting in somebody's back yard for a fair price or trade those early elki's I've never come across one.

[@ebayerr]

In Spanish, El Camino means "the path".

[@wickedhouston5538]

+ebayerr the road

[@moonster5895]

I was bored in Spanish class the other day, looked up Camino in one of my text books "The road"

[@aboxofbroken8tracks983]

+ebayerr I thought it meant "The Camino".

[@ebayerr]

ABoxOfBroken8Tracks lol nope :)

[@ebkomarius3666]

No Shit sherlock

[@raymondmoya4716]

Sweet!🍎

[@Suspicious-Cat]

I’m convinced, but my Chevy dealer didn’t have it.😢

[@eutimiochavez415]

Bring back the el coming but make look like the old one a retro one .

[@jprouska]

thanks for this, had one of these in the early nineties. Really not fit for any purpose otehr than being a great show of car (cannot take in more than 3 people but a small load space ala toyota 1000 at back). Should never have sold mine, though.

[@josepaiva4207]

👍👍👏👏👏🔝

[@seiso6182]

No side view mirror???

[@georgiosbitados4296]

I'll take a dozen!

[@horaciotorresascencio8739]

Arte sobre ruedas

[@youtbe999]

That car in that condition today would fetch $100K

[@southwest3671]

I preferred the look of the Ford Ranchero more.

[@JohnShinn6078]

Not knockin the car but the grandfather clock could've been hauled in a wagon. Maybe they should've hauled a washer dryer pair.

[@dennisleporte2327]

Used to make great flower cars just saying lol

[@ShortBusScotty]

el camino means the camino

[@josephhaynes3017]

That big clock would be in a thousand pieces by the time it got delivered.

[@rodg011]

i'm surprised that it is in color

[@ronnieromero7604]

I'll take a 348 brookwood wagon in red/white.

[@Neptunade]

big sky is open

[@richardrice40]

Pontiac made a test one (El Catalino?) built on a '59 chevy wagon chassis in '59 but the Pontiac powers to be nixed the project. Tried again in '68 (El Lemanso?) but again it never got past the pilot car.😀

[@MrBisku65]

muscle car with a bed

[@ebe7840]

This was when al cars was nice, men was men and dr:s used cigaretts. 🎯🇸🇪

[@doulasc]

Why no El Camino for 1961,1962 or 1963? 1964 the El Camino returned with the Chevelle mid size

[@richardrice40]

Ask Chevy, maybe they didn't sell and that's why they switched to the Chevelle platform.🤔

[@kidmack3556]

They were made for those years... But in 1/25 scale resin by Don & Carol Holthaus of Modelhaus Inc. Their '62 was hecka bad!

[@kingelvis7035]

Four people who surely must be dead inside downvoted this.

[@loa7194]

What if earl and Randy rode in this thing

[@長谷川弘子-i9y]

そのまま上に宮型の櫓が置けそう。

[@RobertLofrano]

I love the 69

[@MrBisku65]

v6 that puts moore miles in the gallons:)))))))) and nowadays that v6 eats way moore fuel than a v8

[@invisableobserver]

Wished they'd gave it a better name that was not spanish influenced

[@Drchainsaw77]

That's Spanish for .... _The Camino._

[@northtone288]

Such a cool looking car but really quite useless. 348 with a 4 gear be my choice.

[@nevetslegasi5686]

El Crapamino

[@eutimiochavez415]

That’s el Camino sorry.

[@zsirafablak5143]

Sexis car

[@privateprivate1865]

I think the 1960 is better

[@prestoncheapbtheadphoneste3010]

😑😐

[@valgoodin8191]

?

[@lionelpatterson1436]

SUV duh 🐒

[@chubbyroyston3880]

Yeah because you couldn't fit thst clock in a station wagon, this has got to be the most impractical flat bed ever.

[@UQRXD]

It is OK but a real pick up is better

[@ry64209]

Ranchero is better