Mine had air boots in the back that you could inflate to hold it up." "I had one but it was the later model based on the Chevelle frame. So unless you really got something to confuse us, I go with the El Camino. The one you show does not have that trim. It was used on the Bel Air but the Bel Air had additional trim pieces right behind the headlight on the side. I am still confused about the trim on the top of the fender. Howard Jones: "It looks like it was based on the Impala body style of those days."Īlso, Ann Willbrand and Raymond Richards.ĪUGUSTA: Lowell Fritsche: "You have to be looking at a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino. We had to trim responses for this page to get everyone in, but all the complete submissions are in the online version of What Is It? Unless specified otherwise below, our readers guessed 1960 El Camino:ĪIKEN: Bob Ennis: "With the success of the Ford Ranchero, Chevy responded with the '59 and '60 El Camino. Here are the other readers who identified the vehicle. Chevrolet continued El Camino pickup production again a few years later and continued the model until the late 1980s." "El Camino's cargo volume also did not match that of other small pickup trucks.
Perhaps these early 'crossovers' didn't carry enough passengers in a time when baby boomer families dominated the market, three across was the best they could offer. "The pioneering American sedan pickups just did not connect with enough car-buying Americans. "However, sales of the 1960 model were low so Chevrolet discontinued the model while Ford had more success with their Rancheros, which were now based on the brand-new Falcon compact (which was the car I drove during my college days in the early '60s). The El Camino was introduced by Chevy in 1959 as a competitor to the Ford Ranchero pickup. This time you pictured a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino pickup. He is a Chevy fan and has a few classics to include a couple of El Caminos. "The answer to this week's contest was just around the corner in a friend's yard in my neighborhood. It could have been one of several 1960 Chevrolets if we hadn't specified it was a pickup that narrowed it down quickly to El Camino, which had been introduced the year before to battle Ford's Ranchero pickup.Ĭhosen randomly from the correct entries was the name of Gary Engen, of Augusta, who wrote: I nearly cried seeing that awful blower sticking up thru the hood in the site photos.Our photo the past two weeks showed the front corner of a 1960 Chevrolet El Camino. The steering wheel was the mormal Impala wheel, except that Tom made it look VERY futuristic by cutting off most of the rim and polishing the ribbed grip sections! Last time I saw it, the car was sitting in a gas station on Telegraph Road, just outside of Detroit. It was hard to see the front and rear of the car. I sat in the car and remember that the custom-built swivel buckets were more like bar stool tops and one sat very low compared to the dash top. As I recall, the bubble top was molded in one piece, then Tom cut it into 2 sections. I still have my copy of that magazine autographed to me on the cover from Tom Holden- signed right there at Cobo Hall in Detroit. He was shown wearing it in the CARS magazine article. Tom always wore a helmet/hardhat when showing the car that was painted in matching gold metallic. I took photos with Tom and Bud, but no idea what happened to them.
Bud "The KAT from AMT" Anderson, The Alexander Brothers, Ak Miller and others were there along with Tom Holden.
At that debut, I brought along my copy of CARS magazine, which featured ULTIMUS on the cover. I won a place in the model car contest that year with my prediction (which came true almost as I said it would) of the GTO built as a 1/25th scale Tempest convertible with a working top. The Ultimus was featured at the Autorama Custom Car show at Cobo Hall in Detroit, MI when it debuted. It was made by Cadillac PLASTICS Company that used to be located over on Second or Third Avenue in Highland Park, MI. "The bubble top was NOT made by Cadillac Company. A friend of mine, Leon Dixon, wanted me to post the following for him regarding the Ultimus and it's builder, Tom Holden.
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