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Chevrolet El Camino 350 CID V-8 1959

Allmän beskrivning : 1959 Chevrolet El Camino
First year for the El Camino
Fully restored with more than $70,000 invested
New white exterior and many new chrome pieces
New and correct red and houndstooth interior
350 CID V-8 engine making 330 hp with dual exhausts
T700R4 four-speed automatic transmission
Air-conditioning, power steering and power brakes with Wilwood front discs
New suspension and linkage
Fewer than 200 miles added since restoration

Is it a car or a truck? That’s what many people in the 1950s wondered when Ford and Chevrolet unveiled coupe pickups in 1957 and 1959, respectively. MotoeXotica Classic Cars is proud to offer this 1959 El Camino. Built in GM’s Van Nuys, California assembly plant, it has resided in San Juan Capo, California with the previous owner and sold on a California Title.  Vinyl inside (code 803) and had tinted glass and a padded dash among its factory accessories. It has been recently restored, with more than $70,000 invested and fewer than 200 miles on the clock since restoration.
Finished in a new show quality white coat, the El Camino’s paint and trim are in very good condition with many new chrome pieces. The El Camino’s windows are in very good order. The lights are in excellent condition while the bodywork is straight and solid. The engine bay is extremely tidy and the battery looks new. The cargo area is in very good order and the chrome bumpers are in excellent order and fit tightly to the body.
Under the hood is a crate 350 CID V-8 engine with the Holley Street Avenger carburetor and the engine breathes through dual exhausts and making 330 horsepower. The motor is buttoned to a T700R4 four-speed automatic transmission. Driver convenience features include air-conditioning, power steering and power brakes with Wilwood front discs. This El Camino rolls on Toyo low-profile radials, size 245/35ZR20 in front and 285/30ZR22 in back. Each tire surrounds an Intro five-spoke alloy wheel. The wheels and tires are in very good condition.
Inside, the new red interior with Houndstooth trim is in overall excellent shape. The bench seat looks fantastic, the matching red carpeting, the red headliner and the two-spoke red and white steering wheel are all in nearly ideal shape. The padded instrument panel, with its full array of gauges is in similar condition, as are the inner door panels.  Fuel gauge and horn are inop.
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 the 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, in contrast to the Ranchero, where its standard 1100-pound rated heavy duty rear springs gave it a distinct rake when empty. 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. Box 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 tested 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, if you collect classic Chevrolets or if you want something different to add to your collection, 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: H59L173416
This car is currently located at our facility in St. Louis, Missouri. Current mileage on the odometer shows 175 miles. It is sold as is, where is, on a clean and clear, mileage exempt title. GET OUT AND DRIVE!!!
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1959 Chevrolet El Camino 350 CID V-8 is listed såld on ClassicDigest in Fenton (St. Louis) by for $54900.

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