Chevrolet El Camino

The El Camino was a car/pickup hybrid marketed by Chevrolet from the fifties to eighties. It was initially based on the Impala, then the Chevelle, then the Malibu before it was discontinued in 1987. In the sixties and seventies, like many Chevys, the El Camino received the Super Sport performance package. GMC introduced the Sprint as its twin in 1971, with the SP package as its version of the SS, named after the first two letters in the model's name. The Sprint was renamed the Caballero in 1978, after the Spanish word for "knight". The name was etymologically connected to word "cavalier", a name Chevrolet would adopt shortly later. The Caballero came in a special Diablo package which featured a demon design on the hood similar to the phoenix found on the hood of the Pontiac Trans Am. From the fifties to seventies, Ford provided competition in the form of the Ranchero. In the eighties, Dodge marketed a small car/pickup hybrid known as the Rampage, branded also as the Plymouth Scamp. These were very different from the El Camino and Ranchero in that they were a lot smaller. The El Camino is named after the famous El Camino Real.