Craigslist el camino 1970 biography

After almost exactly 15 years of ownership, this thread is a long time coming. You may know me better as the builder of the Rice Rod, the '31 Ford with a 2JZ, and Datsaniti, last year's $2000 Challenge winning station wagon. This car is much more important to me.

This El Camino was my first car, my first project, and the catalyst that ignited my passion for cars and engineering. Throughout all the changes and growth in my life, it has been the one constant. It always fires right up. And it ALWAYS needs something fixed. I've never owned a real truck, so it gets used as a truck. It was my daily driver for 5 years through high school and into college. I've made a lot of memories in and around it, and hope to hold onto it forever. I don't have many plans for it, I don't treat it as nicely as I probably should, but I love fixing the small things that crop up and just having a "cool car" that I can drive around while I wrench on my insane projects. 

The day dad and I brought it home, August of 2005, the summer before I started high school. I was 14, and now only the 2nd owner of this car. This was shortly before the rise of craigslist, so I found it in the Sunday newspaper classifieds. Scouring the car classifieds was my sunday morni

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