When Chet Grodack bought his 1986 Chevrolet El Camino in 2018, he knew its past and could make a pretty good guess about its future.
“It belonged to a neighbor and he died,” Grodack explained. “It was going on the auction block and it was a decent price, so I bought it ... It’s got low mileage. The way I use it, it’ll last me a lifetime, especially being 80 years old.”
Competition breeds the El Camino
By 1986, the El Camino was one year away from its final model year, ending a stretch that had begun in 1959 when Chevrolet decided that Ford’s Ranchero could no longer go unchallenged. The
