I should add where the story of my nickname El Camino Billy came from.
I have been fascinated with them since sometime in the 1990s when I became aware of them. I had surely seen them before but for some reason something just "clicked" and they became my favorite vehicles in 1998.
Fast forward to the year 2000 or early 2001. I had joined a model car forum that still exists but I can't get to work on my phone so I no longer am a regular member. A topic came up about El Caminos and they were repeatedly referred to as an abbreviation that drove me up a wall. I will not say it because I have vowed to never type that word. (yes, I am obsessive and a little bit strange). Anyway, I got into a bit of an argument imploring people to use the proper name. One of the forum regulars began calling me El Camino Billy and it stuck. More people at the model shows refer to me by that than my full name.
I was a lot more argumentative back then. Comes with being a teenager I guess...I was 15 or 16 years old when I got the nickname. I don't know when it happened exactly.
It's the name of my website, my email, pretty much everything where I don't use my full name...except eBay where somebody else took it. There I am "therealelcaminobilly".
I didn't actually get a chance to sit in an El Camino until 2019, go figure.