![]() ![]() The benefit of buying a complete suspension system is that it takes all of the guesswork out when purchasing a new suspension. The system contains front tubular upper and lower control arms, front & rear sway bars, front and rear HQ Series CoilOvers, rear tubular trailing arms and an adjustable panhard bar. Maybe there is a little 1961 styling brewing in the left of the clay? Chevrolet sold 22,246 of the 1959 El Caminos, and four of them have wound up in possession of the Seller who includes his telephone number in the eBay posting.This CoilOver System is specifically designed for the 1959-1964 Chevy “B” Body cars and includes everything needed to provide a lowered stance with dramatically improved handling and ride quality. We would be remiss if we neglected to include this cool B & W shot from the Chevy design studio of a clay model of the proposed rear-end styling of the 1959 Batwing. Also, could use a little help identifying that white substance at the left side of this photo, not sure if it comes with the car or not. That floor underneath could be catching the fury of the forest rust demons, but there are no underside pix, sorry. Research reveals that underneath this pickup bed is the floor for a station wagon complete with footwells. The bed seems mostly solid with some rusting through near the cab. Lower doors seem intact, but surface rust everywhere. Here’s the long-term “sitting in the woods” part of the story: Floors–gone. Major bummer: no title on this car because Seller claims the VIN is unreadable. This car has the optional PowerGlide automatic transmission the standard-issue was a 3-speed column shifted Synchro-Mesh transmission. Seller makes no claims about the starting or turning over capabilities of the 235.5 cu in 135 hp Hi-Thrift engine though it looks remarkably complete sans oil filler cap. Her ghost is trying to speak to a viewer of this post through those sad cats’ eyes to get her to a warm shop this Yuletide season. The rear-wheel wells are road-salted out, and this photo shows rust at the tailgate. ![]() ![]() Seller is located in Thief River Falls, Minnesota, and claims to have not one, not two, or even three but–count ’em–FOUR ’59 El Camino hulks in his possession. Our girl here is flirting with that point of no return to bring her back from the abyss of neglect and her years outside in the elements. Just gotta admire the curved gas filler door. The complex double inside-out curves and the compound curved corner where the side meets the rear facade is a metallurgic and steel pressing mindblower. Twenty-two days remain on the posting.įrom this angle, it’s easy to catch how alluring this design was to car buyers still getting used to huge vertical tail fins like the jet fighters of the day, precisely where auto designers got the ideas. Find this car here on eBay with a BIN price of $5,000. Chevy was a little late to the show on the gentleman’s pickup, Ford had issued the first Rancheros two years earlier to decent success, enough so for Chevy to greenlight a competing model in the new category of car/trucks. The batwing horizontal tail fins and the low slung dual headlights all point to Harley Earl, the legendary designer of Chevrolet–this model year’s design was Earl’s last one for Chevy. What a marvelous design, radical, and 1959 was the introductory year for the El Camino. This old girl adds new meaning to “a little grey on top,” as this usually refers to a person who has started seeing some grey hair sprouting on the old dome. ![]()
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