I was today years old when I learned that DAIHATSU MADE A 4 SEAT EL CAMINO HIJET!!! How is it possible that such an amazing vehicle has escaped the pages of DailyTurismo…hang on. Quick search of the 12,516 articles published on DT…and no HiJet Camino. The Japanese version of a Doka (DoppelKabine) looks so wild […]
Todays next feature combines the mechanicals of a Chevy El Camino with the front end styling from a 1950 Studebaker bulletnose and the result looks like a Looney Tunes land-speed car that learned to haul mulch. Studebaker used the bullet-nose aircraft-inspired beak in 1950–51, and it remains one of the most recognizable faces in postwar […]
My mom used to say, “get your shoes off the couch.” Wait, that’s not it. It was something about “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” No. Mom isn’t that nice. Maybe it was “woof, that’s the kind of face only a mother could love, and now I know why adoption […]
Today’s first feature is an interesting piece of automotive customization…because it started out as a Dodge Tradesman Van but has been converted into an El Camino. A huge El Camino. El Camino Gigante. But it gets two thumbs up from DT because of the three-on-the-tree, red paint, modern audio, and enough El Caminoization to make […]
Our next feature started out as a 1975 Chevrolet Vega, one of GM’s compact H-body cars, but it has been converted into a tiny pickup/ute. Think Vega meets El Camino, then somebody added side pipes and stopped caring what the brochure said. This thing meets all of the requirements for a front-page DT feature. Rack-and-pinion […]
The New Beetle was never supposed to haul anything more serious than groceries, which makes this Smyth-built pickup conversion all the better. By cutting the hatch and reshaping the rear into a functional bed, it turns VW’s retro commuter into something closer to a front-wheel-drive El Camino, with just enough utility to justify the absurdity. […]
This next car was built by one man, never to be repeated, and impossible to categorize; this is less a car and more a statement piece. The standard G-body coupe stopped being a personal luxury car and turned into a one-off interpretation of what an El Camino might look like if Buick had built it […]
The Cadillac DeVille was the ultimate symbol of American awesomeness in the mid 1960s. It had huge proportions, big block V8 power, and enough chrome to be visible from space. Converted here into a homemade “Cad-A-Mino,” it looks like the kind of custom machine Elvis might have ordered during his rhinestone cowboy era, half luxury […]
Once upon a time this was a perfectly sensible W116-era Mercedes diesel sedan, and then someone looked at it and thought, “Yes, but what if it were an El Camino?” The result is this silver, long-roof-adjacent oddity powered by the famously indestructible OM617 diesel and transformed into a pickup in the most earnest, neighbor-built way […]
The sixth-generation Honda Accord marked the point where Honda perfected the formula of understated styling, durable engineering, and mass-market appeal, with the EX coupe pairing the torquey four-cylinder and a manual gearbox into one of the most common long-lived daily drivers of the late 1990s. Today’s wild and wacky example has taken a hasty e-brake […]