After nearly 5 years of working on this, it's time to let it go- and in hopes of it going to someone who will finish what I started and bring it to the Challenge I'm offering it here at under Challenge price in addition to the sell-offs that should be possible.
The build thread on the car is here: Build Thread
It's a '79 El Camino ute with a built 350 small-block V8 (technically a 355 I think given it's bored .030 over) hooked up to a TH350 transmission. It comes with pretty much every brace/reinforcement ever made for a G-body including the factory rear sway bar, a full spare rear end, a posi rear diff (needs to be installed into one of the rear ends). The factory power steering rack was replaced with a S-10 manual rack allowing the power steering to be deleted. It comes with two steering columns (maybe three, I think I may still have the original one) and a Jeep steering half-shaft that replaces the much flimsier original G-body one.
Comes with a camper top for the bed, as well as two extra tailgates (the original one is banged up). The interior is currently completely out, but I believe I've collected all of the necessary parts to complete it over the years. Comes with two different seating options- a black and orange bench seat that it came with and a set of bucket seats from a Monte Carlo. All the glass is in good shape. Comes with a set of S-10 wheels with questionable but usable tires.
The engine is at its base a roller-block 350 SBC bored .030 over that came out of an '89 K1500 truck that was in an accident a few hundred miles after the engine had been completely rebuilt. The top end has been completely re-done- it has refurbished Vortec heads off a late-90's Vortec 350 (don't have the head numbers handy, can get them later) and the full GM Performance 'Hot Cam' package including the roller camshaft, springs, and rocker arms. A knockoff 'Victor Jr.' intake manifold made for the Vortec heads feeds them air and an Edelbrock 4-barrel carb handles the fuel. The exhaust is handled by a set of headers to dual mufflers. An electric fan handles cooling.
There are a number of things that need to be done to finish the car- most notable is fixing the driver's floor which was all but completely rusted out. I'd started on the prep for it by cutting out the bad metal, and it comes with two pre-formed panels for the front and the back and a section cut out of a junkyard car to handle the middle that the panels don't cover. There are also two other rut holes to be fixed, right behind the doors where the G-bodies typically have problems. The car comes with all the metal I cut out from another junked Elky rear-end that should be more than enough to handle patching the holes. The interior will need to be re-installed. Right now the heater core is bypassed and not installed, but I do have it as well as what should be all the provisions to put air conditioning into the car if you wanted it down the line. Comes with a trailer hitch.
The transmission will need to be checked out- when I moved it into the garage I had to rev the engine a lot higher than I thought I should have to get it to move, but I was having troubles with the linkage so I'm not sure where exactly the problem is. The transmission cooler lines were damaged when the engine was pulled- at the moment there's a bypass loop installed, and it comes with both a separate transmission cooler that can be used as well as the radiator having an integrated cooler.
It comes with a whole heck of a lot of additional parts- if you're bringing a truck to tow it (which it will need at this point), you'll likely fill the bed up pretty well in addition to stuffing things into the Elky's own bed.
I'm sure I'm leaving off info, but I'll be more than happy to answer anything you can think of. I'm really hoping to get this out of my garage ASAP since I now have an additional unexpected large project to deal with.
(especially since the back half of the exhaust isn't hooked up...)
