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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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Did Pontiac Plan Its Own El Camino?

Posted August 28, 2008 12:01 AM by dstrohl

With all the excitement about the Pontiac G8 sport truck and the resurrection of the El Camino/ Ramchero/ ute body style for the American market (along with our recent posts about Pontiac's previous efforts to bring to market their own El Camino derivative), I went to my SIA index and found yet another article in SIA #137, September-October 1993, about a possible (but not probable) Pontiacamino, this one apparently based on a 1966 Grand Prix. John Lee, the author of the article, doesn't definitively answer whether it was a Pontiac-built or enthusiast-built conversion, leaving us to answer the title of the article for ourselves.

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09/02/2008 12:26 PM

I guess the Aztec wasn't ugly enough for Pontiac? Why re-create a vehicle with all the disadvantages of a pick-up truck with none of the advantages?

Maybe they are just testing the waters to see if all us Baby Boomers are ready for some nostalgia.

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Re: Did Pontiac Plan Its Own El Camino?

09/08/2008 12:12 AM

I think that there are a few things that we can take away here.

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