1971 Chevrolet El Camino

I took these photographs in one of the car parks at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018.

It's a 1971 third generation Chevrolet El Camino, 41,606 of which were produced that year by Chevrolet in their nine factories, seven in the USA, one in Canada and one in Argentina.

The El Camino is a coupé utility vehicle, with a passenger compartment at the front  and a cargo bed at the back. The third generation model was based on the Chevelle station wagon platform, and there was a choice of two 6-cylinder inline and four V8 engines. This particular car has the 350cu in (3,735cc) V8 engine.

Chevrolet El Camino

I saw this vehicle a few days ago on my daily walk down into Hyde town centre and it's not a vehicle that I've seen previously around Hyde.

It's a Chevrolet El Camino, a vehicle that was produced between 1959 and 1987, except for 3 years in the early 1960s, and the registration number suggests that it was first registered between 1 August 1984 and 31 July 1985.

That would make it one of the last El Caminos made, a Fifth Generation model.

It has the 4.3 litre (262 cu in) Chevrolet V6 engine.