No it's not a chevy El Camino, it's a Buick

[ted1922]

In the early 70's a saw a 1962-63 Buick car modified to a truck  like chevy did with the El Camino .

I saw the car-truck in the south Los Angeles area and in the San Fernando valley area in the 70's.

He did so good of a job, people said, that Buick build it.

Has anybody seen this car-truck .

[Barney Eaton]

Were you smokin' anything during that time?

[ted1922]

Sorry I was to young at that time.  this car was painted red at that time and as far as the rest of the car it was stock.

sorry I do not have any photos of this car.

even know it is been a long time it may be still in the Los Angeles - San Fernando valley area

 

[J.H.Boland]

GM did have a few special El Camino type vehicles built over the years. This '76 Cadillac Mirage sport wagon is owned by Steve Plunkett, in London Ontario. According to his website,it is one of 105 built.

[ted1922]

These 2 cars show that did a little custom work to a few Buicks, now these 2 cars are not the Buick that I saw.

[NTX5467]

The car mentioned by the original poster could well have been a funeral flower car modification "that escaped".  The pictured Cadillac (as well as the Cadillac station wagons) were customized by a vendor and then marketed through Cadillac dealers.  

 

Pontiac did a feasibility study of an ElCamino-type vehicle on the 1960 cars.  I know (and have touched and looked it over very closely!) of one, with allegedly 5 produced.  When I was looking it over, I looked for "holidays" from the builder/modifier, but found NONE.  Everything was done completely in factory fashion . . . joints, sealer, paint, etc.  Not like it'd been done in a "body shop" back then.  Pretty neat.  One of the Pate Museum heirs owned it at the time.

 

NTX5467

[1939_Buick]

Long running thread on Buick trucks  http://forums.aaca.org/topic/282329-buick-trucks/

 

Buick did make & sell trucks in the early years

Most of the photo's are of customised trucks

Edited March 7, 2018 by 1939_Buick (see edit history)

[dei]

I remember seeing a 1965 silver Buick Electra (likely a 2 door coupe originally) that was shown at the Autorama held at Cobo Hall in Detroit Michigan sometime in the late 80's. The custom work to make it into an el camino type vehicle was spectacular and could have had a following if ever sent into production. Wish I had taken pictures then...  

[Mark Shaw]

This 1986 GMC Caballero is for sale...  It now has Buick rally wheels & new tires, so it almost qualifies as a Buick Caballero.

[KongaMan]

On 3/5/2018 at 1:01 PM, J.H.Boland said:

GM did have a few special El Camino type vehicles built over the years. This '76 Cadillac Mirage sport wagon is owned by Steve Plunkett, in London Ontario. According to his website,it is one of 105 built.

 

Is that what that is?  I saw one of those on the back of a flatbed going down I5 a couple of months ago.

[RivNut]

There are any number of these Grand National El Caminos running around.  Some have kept the original Chevy running gear, but most have opted to go with the entire Turbo V6 from the Grand National.