Camino LS6

Found the pic, but facebook won't let me "like" it. That site has become a real PITA lately. Sorry Roger, I tried.

I'm not finding the pic...

I was thinking of this instead of the Ramjet for the Camino, but then there is the Vette...

That's not the half of it. I still have to restore the rest of the car...

Lots of good info here too: http://www.lsxtv.com/forum/lsx-conversion-guide-basics-2432.html

Link: http://www.brphotrods.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=BRP&Category_Code=CNV20

LSx conversion kits are now available for 73-77 A-bodies.

I think you're on to something. IIRC, Holden and GMNA are stll using two different versions of Zeta, and I don't think that changed with the updates that were recently announced. For the next full redesign, the Holden cars were to move to the GMNA version of Zeta, and at that time it may make more sense to bring them here. Well technically, the VE is at the end of the road anyway, and the VF almost here. So, saying that it won't come here as a VE is not saying much. It is just possible that this article is simply stating the obvious, and what we've heard about the start dates for this may still be correct. The tone says otherwise, but the pure facts would allow for it.

An immediate fuel filter replacement, and maybe another after a tank or two of fuel. Everything else may be ok, but the fuel is bad no matter what.

Irrelevant. They can't build enough of them for that to matter. It's just one excuse after another ever since 1987. What, you're gonna buy 50,000 of them yourself? Quite frankly, if GM were to do a modern El Camino, it should have a backseat and midgate. Elkies always had a bit of a flying buttress look to them, so this could maintain the general look but without the compromise. You know, make it a vehicle someone might have some options with. Bachelors who work in landscaping or construction just aren't this huge untapped market. You miss the point. GM couldn't build 50,000 of them no matter the demand - they have capacity for about 10% of that at best. As for your Camino recipe, that wouldn't be an El Camino at all. I do agree that it would be nice to have the flying buttress (and longer coupe-style doors) but a backseat is out of the question. No, this should come here just as it is. The small numbers that they could build make it even more desireable in my book. WHY would anyone need longer coupe-style doors?? If there's no backseat, why opt for unnecessarily long doors that do nothing except hinder ingress/egress in parking lots?? Makes no sense. In a word, style. It's what makes the flying buttress look work. If you need pragmatic, it makes the access to storage behind the seat easier. But really, an El Camino is (and always was) about style rather than pragmatism.

Good decision. Econo-poop shouldn't wear a Chrysler badge.

Pathetic, isn't it?

BK: My list of new cars that I'd actually buy starts with the Challenger for just the reasons you suggested in your post.

I'm feeling pretty good about Chrysler right now as well. If they put a bed on the back of the Challenger, I'd forget all about GM at this point.

Yeah, well, I gave up hoping a while ago - they just don't want to bring the good stuff here.

Funny guy you are, Mr. Cubitar.

Defining generations on these is a bit of a murky business. Holden is on the VF at this point (same vehicle basically), and the true next gen is a ways off with the possibility of a (stupid) move to FWD. Time to $h! or get off the pot.

Irrelevant. They can't build enough of them for that to matter. It's just one excuse after another ever since 1987. What, you're gonna buy 50,000 of them yourself? Quite frankly, if GM were to do a modern El Camino, it should have a backseat and midgate. Elkies always had a bit of a flying buttress look to them, so this could maintain the general look but without the compromise. You know, make it a vehicle someone might have some options with. Bachelors who work in landscaping or construction just aren't this huge untapped market. You miss the point. GM couldn't build 50,000 of them no matter the demand - they have capacity for about 10% of that at best. As for your Camino recipe, that wouldn't be an El Camino at all. I do agree that it would be nice to have the flying buttress (and longer coupe-style doors) but a backseat is out of the question. No, this should come here just as it is. The small numbers that they could build make it even more desireable in my book.

Well, the torture quotient is higher for fans of the El Camino than any other car. No other vehicle has been so close to happening so many times only to be yanked away. Not to mention the fact that they have been building it for other parts of the world all along - right under our noses.

It wouldn't be like the Solstice at all, any stateside Utes would be a bonus over the sales its business case was based on. Apples and oranges.

Irrelevant. They can't build enough of them for that to matter. It's just one excuse after another ever since 1987.

If they put the El Camino name on the Granite or that hateful little bit of ocular agony Roger posted, I'm going to hurt someone.

PAR.

There goes my day... I scanned pages one and two, and I'm coming back for the rest.

Love that clean look - silver looks great on these cars. I really am jealous now.