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The SFW image thread

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1987 GMC Caballero

The GMC Caballero, like the Sprint that had previously been GMC's version of the car-based truck during the previous two generations of the A/G-body platform, paralleled the development of the fifth-generation El Camino, and like the El Camino, was discontinued at the end of the 1987 model year.
 
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1992 ASC Chevrolet Lumina Z34-El Camino Concept

Even though the El Camino was discontinued after 1987, there have been several proposals to resurrect the car-truck hybrid over the years. The first officially sanctioned one was this concept car, where the American Sunroof Company (now known as American Specialty Cars), a company that in addition to making sunroofs and convertible tops, also makes low-volume customized and concept cars, converted a Lumina Z34 coupe into an El Camino-like vehicle, hollowing out the back seats and trunk of the Lumina to make room for a custom-fabricated small truck bed that incorporated the rear window and curved bed front section taken from a donor fifth-generation El Camino.

Reactions to this concept were somewhat mixed, as many enthusiasts looked askance at a front-drive vehicle, especially one that was based on a rather mediocre coupe & sedan, and the proposal never made it past this concept car stage.
 
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1995 Chevrolet El Camino concept

The next El Camino concept produced by GM was made in 1995, and represented a return to the roots of the earliest El Caminos, being based on a modified full-size (Caprice) station wagon platform. This concept car also received the same modifications that the 1994-96 Impala SS sports variation of the Caprice did (police package suspension, brakes, and cooling; 17" wheels, a detuned version of the LT1 5.7L V-8 used in the Corvette, Camaro Z28, and Firebird Formula & Trans Am, a deluxe bucket seat interior, and special exterior trim.) Unlike the Lumina-derived concept from a few years earlier, this Caprice-based El Camino received favorable reviews as it made the rounds of the auto show & press circuits in 1995-96, and reports are that it would have entered production in 1997, had GM management not decided to terminate all full-size RWD passenger car production at the end of the 1996 model year in order to re-purpose the factory space to increase truck and SUV production.
 
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