Photo: MonaroSS of GMInsideNews.com
Ah, the good ole coupé utility vehicle! Starting with the 1934 Ford and ending with the 576 horsepower LSA V8-powered HSV GTS Maloo from Australia, this type of automobile is a dying breed in this day and age. And it all started in 1932...
When Ford Australia received a letter from a woman asking for a vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday and which can carry four pigs to market on Mondays, guess what the Blue Oval did? They delivered one. The United States got its first good taste of coupé utility in the late 1950s thanks to the Ranchero. General Motors followed suit two years later with the most popular coupé utility of them all - the El Camino.
Ask a kid or ask your pa - is the Chevy El Camino cool? On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s Steve McQueen cool even today. The biggest petrolhead of Hollywood’s golden era didn’t earn his King of Cool label just because of his flawless acting. It was his choice in cars gave that mysterious all-knowing edge to his persona.
Fun fact: McQueen owned a Chevy El Camino SS, which is a mind-blowing addition to a garage full of old Jags, 911s, Le Mans racers and a few dozen motorcycles. If it were made today, the El Camino’s basis would be the Chevrolet Camaro, no doubt about it.
Speaking of which, what better candidate than the soon-to-be phased out of production fifth-gen Camaro? For what it’s worth, the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Camaro is a bit on the avant-garde side of sharp-edged to look brilliant in El Camino guise. Rendered by MonaroSS of GMInsideNews, the Chevy El Camino coupe and targa top Photoshop wizardry in the adjacent photos look genuinely fantastic.
What makes it for us it the subtle gill behind the front wheel arch, joined by a bite-the-back-of-your-hand beautiful swage line. A little bed, two seats, a thumping great small-block V8 and Jaguar XJ-S-like flying buttresses flanking the rear windshield. What’s not to like about it? We really wish that Chevy would built it...
Ask a kid or ask your pa - is the Chevy El Camino cool? On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s Steve McQueen cool even today. The biggest petrolhead of Hollywood’s golden era didn’t earn his King of Cool label just because of his flawless acting. It was his choice in cars gave that mysterious all-knowing edge to his persona.
Fun fact: McQueen owned a Chevy El Camino SS, which is a mind-blowing addition to a garage full of old Jags, 911s, Le Mans racers and a few dozen motorcycles. If it were made today, the El Camino’s basis would be the Chevrolet Camaro, no doubt about it.
Speaking of which, what better candidate than the soon-to-be phased out of production fifth-gen Camaro? For what it’s worth, the all-new 2016 Chevrolet Camaro is a bit on the avant-garde side of sharp-edged to look brilliant in El Camino guise. Rendered by MonaroSS of GMInsideNews, the Chevy El Camino coupe and targa top Photoshop wizardry in the adjacent photos look genuinely fantastic.
What makes it for us it the subtle gill behind the front wheel arch, joined by a bite-the-back-of-your-hand beautiful swage line. A little bed, two seats, a thumping great small-block V8 and Jaguar XJ-S-like flying buttresses flanking the rear windshield. What’s not to like about it? We really wish that Chevy would built it...
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