Jim’s El Camino has a small block\u00a0327, which is balanced & blueprinted. It has\u00a0high dome 11:75 compression pistons, Pro Max aluminum heads, roller rockers, Summit stage 3 intake topped with a\u00a0Holley 4150. It also has a\u00a0HEI conversion with MSD upgrades and an aluminum radiator.
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The transmission is a\u00a0Hughes TH400, and the rear is a\u00a012-bolt posi with 3:73 gears. Jim’s El Camino’s suspension is upgraded with tubular control arms with a\u00a0\u00a02″ drop in front, complemented with a set of coilovers.\u00a0Jim also upgraded the brakes to discs, which are hiding behind 15″ Corvette rally wheels.\u00a0\u00a0Finally, the El Camino is finished in\u00a0Corvette charcoal metallic paint.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jim likes to haul his\u00a0latest 1968 BSA bike around in it, and is redoing the dash now with Intellitronix classic gauges, then it should just about be complete!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jim picked “Ethyl” (his 1968 El Camino) up in a trade for a BSA motorcycle\u00a0he built while in the USAF. His El Camino came\u00a0from Texas, moved to Las Vegas with him, then finally came home to Pennsylvania. It was Jim’s first cross-country cruise with so many stories and great memories. As they say, “See the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":84726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,201],"tags":[265],"class_list":["post-84724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-customer-cars","category-el-camino","tag-1968-el-camino"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/30426707633061.jpeg",1542,827,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/30426707633061-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/30426707633061-300x161.jpeg",300,161,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/30426707633061-768x412.jpeg",768,412,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/30426707633061-1024x549.jpeg",800,429,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/30426707633061-1536x824.jpeg",1536,824,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/30426707633061.jpeg",1542,827,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ryan Minn","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/author\/ryan-m\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Jim picked “Ethyl” (his 1968 El Camino) up in a trade for a BSA motorcycle\u00a0he built while in the USAF. His El Camino came\u00a0from Texas, moved to Las Vegas with him, then finally came home to Pennsylvania. It was Jim’s first cross-country cruise with so many stories and great memories. As they say, “See the…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84733,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84724\/revisions\/84733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ss396.com\/cars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}