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Chevrolet El Camino 454 V8 1959

General description : 1959 Chevrolet El Camino
First year for the El Camino sold on actual mileage Arizona Title
Same Arizona owner for the past 8 years
More than $20,000 invested in the vehicle
454 CID with dual exhausts with upgraded distributor, carburetor and headers
Aluminum radiator
New belts, pulleys and hoses
Turbo 400 automatic transmission
New J&S 3.23 differential gear within rebuilt rear differential
Power steering with a tilt column and HydroBoost power front disc brakes with Wilwood calipers
Rebuilt and powder-coated front suspension
Black exterior with new tan-and-black interior
Vintage air-conditioning
New tires and custom wheels and California bullet front bumper
Spare tire and jack
Half-car and half-truck, the Chevrolet El Camino is Chevrolet’s first pickup utility vehicle. It was Chevrolet’s answer to Ford’s Ranchero. MotoeXotica Classic Cars is pleased to present this 1959 El Camino. Built in GM’s Van Nuys, California plant, it left the lined painted Roman Red (code 923) with Gray cloth and vinyl inside (code 803).  This solid rarely seen ’59 has had the same Arizona ownership for the last 8 years.  The actual mileage Arizona title shows.
Now dressed in black, this car’s paint and trim are in satisfactory order, as are its four panes of glass and its vent windows. The trucklet’s lights are in similar shape, including the cat’s eye taillamps shared with the Chevy full-size sedans that year.
The car’s bodywork is straight and solid. The chrome bumpers, including the California bullet front bumper, look fantastic and fit tightly to the body. The engine bay is quite tidy, the cargo bed looks great and has a cargo liner, and the battery appears new. This El Camino has a rebuilt and power-coated front suspension.
This truck rolls on new Cooper Cobra Radial G/T tires, size 235/60R15 up front and 275/60R15 in back. Each tire surrounds a five-spoke American Racing wheel with a center spinner. The wheels are in very good condition.
Under the hood is a understood 454 CID V-8 engine breathing through dual exhausts. It features an upgraded distributor, carburetor and headers plus an aluminum radiator and new belts, pulleys and hoses. Backing the motor is a Turbo 400 automatic transmission and a newly rebuilt rear end with a J&S 3.23 gearing. Driver convenience features include custom vintage air-conditioning, power steering, HydroBoost power front disc brakes and a tilt steering column.
Inside, the pickup utility has a new, tan-and-black interior. The bench seat has black inserts and looks excellent, as does the complementing tan carpet. The headliner is in satisfactory order while the four-spoke aftermarket steering wheel with a black rim and tilt column is in excellent shape, horn and wipers are inop The tan metal instrument panel and tan and black inner door panels echo the rest of the interior’s them and are in excellent order. Completing the inside is the gearshift lever and a Custom Sound AM/FM stereo.
The El Camino was introduced for the 1959 model year, two years after Ford’s Ranchero. According to Chevrolet stylist Chuck Jordan, GM Harley Earl had suggested a coupé pickup in 1952.
Like the Ranchero, it was based on an existing and modified platform, the new-for-1959 Brookwood two-door station wagon, itself based on the completely redesigned, longer, lower and wider full-sized Chevrolet.
Highly stylized, the El Camino initially sold 50 percent more briskly than Ford’s more conservative Ranchero, some 22,000 to 14,000. Unlike the Brookwood wagon and a sedan delivery variant, the El Camino was available with any full-sized Chevrolet drivetrain. It came in a single trim level, its exterior using the mid-level Bel-Air’s trim and the interior of the low-end Biscayne.
Its chassis featured Chevrolet’s “Safety-Girder” X-frame design and a full-coil suspension, both introduced in the 1958 model year. The 119-inch wheelbase was 1.5 inches longer, and the El Camino’s payload rating ranged from 650 to 1150 pounds, with gross vehicle weights ranging from 4400 to 4900 pounds depending on powertrain and suspension. The somewhat soft passenger car suspension of the base model left the vehicle level without a load. The 1959 El Camino was promoted as the first Chevrolet pickup built with a steel bed floor instead of wood. The floor was a corrugated sheetmetal insert, secured with 26 recessed bolts. Concealed beneath it was the floor pan from the Brookwood two-door wagon, complete with foot wells. El Camino boxes were double-walled and their capacity was almost 33 cubic feet.
Among the performance engines offered were a 283-cid Turbo-jet V-8 with two- or four-barrel carburetion, several Turbo-Thrust 348-cid V-8s with four-barrel or triple two-barrel carburetors and two 283-cube Ramjet Fuel Injection V-8s.
Hot Rod Magazine conducted a test of an El Camino equipped with the hottest powertrain combination available in early 1959—a 315 horsepower triple-carb, solid-lifter 348 V-8 mated to a four-speed. Staff testers clocked 0-60 mph times of around seven seconds, estimated top speed at 130 mph and predicted 14-second/100-mph quarter-mile performance with a rear-axle ratio suitable for drag racing installed.
A total of 22,246 El Caminos were produced for 1959. That bested the count of 21,706 first-year Rancheros made in 1957 and the 14,169 Ford sedan pickups built in direct competition for the 1959 model year.
If you’re looking for a classic coupe pickup with style, look no further than this El Camino. From its bat-wing and cat’s eye rear to its quad headlights and chrome grille, it is drenched in late 1950s motifs and character. Stop by MotoeXotica Classic Cars and see it for yourself.
VIN: H59L209642
This truck is currently located at our facility in St. Louis, Missouri. Current mileage on the odometer shows 76,756 miles. It is sold as is, where is, on a clean and clear, actual mileage Arizona title. GET OUT AND DRIVE!!!
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