We love hearing stories from car owners who still have the ride they drove in high school and through college as their only means of transportation. Rich Dandolo purchased this ’70 El Camino back in 1982—the year after he graduated high school. “I really wanted a ’69 but this one had a freshly built big-block and the price was right, so I bought it,” Rich explains. “It was originally brown with a black vinyl top and brown interior. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great-looking, either.”
To give it some personality, Rich dressed it up in Centerline wheels and BFGoodrich T/As—the “go-to” combination at the time. It was the ’80s when most muscle car guys would have their cars emulate what they saw in magazines and on dragstrips across the country. Some more minor upgrades followed in the interior and the car
