Forget the Ferrari - Today is a day of El Camino
Forget the Ferrari - Today is a day of El Camino
Forget the Ferrari --- Today is a day of El Camino
The 1985 Chevrolet El Camino, owned by Chuck Grantham, a book publisher in Raleigh, N.C. Mr. Grantham has been the owner of El Caminos for 32 years.
Photo:
Alex Boerner for The Wall Street Journal
Chuck Grantham, a book editor from Raleigh, N.C., about his 1985 Chevrolet El Camino, as A.J. Baime
I never had children. I worked, I ran cars, I jumped out of planes and I think I ran out of time. Today, my cars are like my children. I would not call myself a great collector, but I have a Ferrari F430, a Mercedes-Benz AMG, a Porsche and an Eldorado Cadillac. Every morning I enter my garage and I say to myself: "What am I going to drive to work today?"
El Camino is the car with which I had the longest connection. It started 32 years ago, when I bought the first one. I drove it for 15 years and died, so I bought a second and drove it for 15 years. It was a vent with noisy silencers. I loved its shape and I loved the functionality.
Was it a car? A truck? They were both. In fact, when Chevrolet launched this model in 1959, the sales line was: "More than a car, more than a truck."
Chevy built this model for approximately 30 years. Today is a cult classic. There are not many of them left, but you can buy good ones for cheap enough if you look around you.
The car you see here I bought it two years ago. My second El Camino was in its last stages, and I found a small dealership about 50 miles from where I live, specialized in these cars. I drove there with my business partner.
When I entered the dealership, I saw a dozen of El Caminos. The first one I saw in my eyes was an exact replica of the one I was currently handling, only that I was in better shape. So I changed my old El Camino for him, plus $ 5,000.
After three decades of ownership of El Camino, I decided to make this a celebration of all the work I did over the years with the others. I replaced the chrome, bought a new carpet and worked a little on the engine.
Do you know how people have idiosyncrasies, things that they love and that do not always make much sense to others? The roads are mine.
Mr. Grantham puts descriptive license plates on his cars. Your Ferrari says "FASSST". His The Way is self-explanatory.
Photo:
Alex Boerner for The Wall Street Journal
-Contact with A.J. Baime in Facebook.com/ajbaime.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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