![]() The fourth generation El Camino arrived in 1973, and the Sprint carried forward on this platform. GMC only started selling Sprints in 1971, four years into the Camino’s 3rd generation platform. Outside of the badging, we’re looking at an El Camino.īecause of this common heritage, assigning a generation to this truck becomes a bit murky. You’ll occasionally run across a claim that GMCs use “heavier duty components” compared to the Chevy version, and a co-worker once told me “They use more spot welds when building GMC cabs,” but beyond using GMC motors under-hood (a practice that died out in the sixties), I’ve seen no evidence to support these claims. We’ve written up a ’72 Sprint and an ’87 Caballero, but this appears to be the first of the 1973-77 generation Sprint captured “in the wild.”Īs you can see, there’s very few Sprint specific parts. However, this fourth generation model sports an uncommon nameplate (In 1977 GMC sold 5,955 of these Americanized Aussie Utes). While El Camino production ended back in 1987, a quick search through the CC archives turns up many El Camino sightings through the years, including 5th generation models spotted in both Israel and Japan, making them fairly common content. Such is today’s discovery, a 1977 Chevrolet El Camino in GMC livery (I’m basing the model year on the grille texture, the only exterior change from year to year). Thanks to badge engineering, somewhat common Curbside Classics can be found in unique flavors.
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