For nearly 30 years on & off we have been serving guys & ladies in many many ways.. long before the internet.. when human contact & letter writing was still possible, when cops had to catch you to check your rego, petrol was affordable, a text was what was in a book & a FM capable radio had not yet become standard equipment in most cars...& the government did not lie to its people... as much.. as now....
.. but even in THOSE days parts were not easy to find all the time.... when we provided personally undertaken 2 or 3 times a year the "US Junk Yard Parts Hunting" runs we had varying success .... hard trips that would take 2-4 weeks to cover 50-70 major US California & Nevada wrecking yards.. self service yards.. where you take your own tools, don't ask for help, lug your own parts out.. and there were plenty of wrecks from the 60's & 70's....Sounds like a Guys Own Adventure.... maybe listening to the Beach boys as you cruised the highways between yards... but it really was pretty hard, all weather, on the lookout for rattlers - both the "two legged type" ...and the slimy ones lower to the ground..... & things like infestations of black widow spiders hidden in cars your combing though, often in the shadow of reclaimed chemical fall out zones .......
... EVEN THEN early El Camino donor vehicles were pretty RARE TO FIND.. I recall with a smile in the back of my mind THOSE DAYS of plenty of early 70's stuff .. and .. this might sound stupid to many people today.. but the excitement of finding a really good 1959-66 anything Chevy or Pontiac.. and an El Camino in good order would be the icing on the cake... but life goes on..
While we don't have a huge El Camino (aka GMC Sprint) population in Australia (we have our utes).... as a supplier we've still quietly serviced the non-mainline restorers over the years... and now we'll make a new supply route for the US utes parts... In the coming months we'll develop the El Camino listings.. some of which is based on obvious needs carefully & increase current stock & openly price through special availability rather then fantasy stuff.. But we do have more ways to help now then ever ever... in the past, especially for those who regularly use these later model vehicles too...your service parts are already in stock & more to come.
.... Yell out if you need help with El Camino / Sprint parts up to the late 80's .... and thank you - Dave
