https://vancouver.craigslist.org/van/cto/d/vancouver-1959-oldscamino/7125816819.html

https://vancouver.craigslist.org/rds/cto/d/kelowna-west-1969-gto-elcamino-428/7127766228.html

GTO Camino
1969 Elcamino
Made to a 1 of never made car
Frame off build
Hideaway Headlight GTO
428 tripower engine (rebuilt not broken in yet)
67 tripower set up
400 Turbo Trans just rebuilt
4 wheel disc brakes
Full GTO interior and rally guages needs a 1ce over still but wow
Comes with rally rims
Can discuss the BG mags and new tires.

The work to make the go and Chevelle lines work on the doors was massive (approx 110 hours of labor alone )

Told over 70g into this 1111¹

I thought the tailgate was a little funky and he says it is a chopped wagon. If it were quasi factory, ie. a flower car made in 59, it would likely have the 59 el Camino roof/rear window area, tailgate and box interior? It looks not bad. 

They did a good job on the GTO. 

Prefectca wrote:

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The 59 Olds is interesting, but I dont think it was done by a professional coach builder.

I think that a good shop would have had the rear window further back for more room in the cab. It looks very cramped.

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 Agree & agree.

The sweetest conversion i ever saw was a 1959 American Pontiac turned into a 1959 Pontiac El Camino. The car was a perfect restoration of a car that never existed. To look at it, you were convinced in every way that GM actually built the car originally. I wish i had pictures to show it. 

That GTO "Goat Camino" came out well but it better have a Pontiac V8 under the hood.

As for that '59 Olds, amateur attempt at a shop. Customs were still being done when that Olds 98 sedan was cheap to pick up 2nd hand. It would have a 394 and relatively strong axles. Many cars like that around Niagara ended up becoming chassis-cowl flatbeds for use in orchards. I remember them well but just can't seen to find a picture of an old 50s/60s barge. There was a '64 Meteor front end flatbed on the edge of town at an orchard that I remember back in the 70's.

That El Catalina in the Hagerty article is well done. Gorgeous. When I think how many of the already rare 59/60 El Caminos had their roofs chopped off during the silly plexiglass hinged dome era in the early 60's like something out of Captain Scarlet.