Updated on 10/13/09

A couple pictures of the mirrors and all of the chrome back on. And some interior pictures with the new black seat in.

A couple pictures at the 4th annual silver springs all gm carshow on saturday october 3rd 2009

9/13/09

Here are some pics of the new paint without the mirrors and drip rail chrome on.

8/9/09

FRESH PAINT PICS

a couple of the first pictures of the new paint at a carshow in downtown new smyrna! Also We did the paint on the hood scoop alittle different this time it has charcoal faded into the wizard!

8/6/09

Got her all buffed today and pretty well put back together, still have to put mirrors and the chrome around the bed on. Waiting on the upper bed chrome clips to come in, Will take some pics of it tommorow all buffed.

Here is a couple pics of the bed all painted i took them about two weeks ago, just haven't had time to put them on.

6/19/09

Here are the pics of the final sanding before paint we started painting it but it wrinkled everywhere there was primer minor problem we will scuff and reshoot tommorow.

Wetsanding pictures

The redneck way to take your car down the road to dry it off without a bumper lol.

5/7/09

Repainting her again my hood was starting to crack and i had a few dents and scratches here and there i want to fix. so here is the pics of the 2nd paint job im gonna put some more flake in the paint this time so it should be done before long.

I am finally done with my el camino after 3 long hard years. I can finally start enjoying it so here are the pics of it all together

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5-8-08
Got new glass with antenna built in put in and chrome around it put on.

5-7-08
got polished aluminum valve covers and breather and installed them. Also tommorow the glass man is coming to put my new windshield in.

****Special Thanks to Alex for helping me so much****
4-29-08
Put door handles and locks on, put Passenger side remote mirror on, and aligned hood.

4-19-08
Fitted the grills and all lenses today also put wheels off my other el camino on i think im going to keep them on it.

4-15-08
Put front and rear bumpers on got all of the filler panels installed. Put new windows in,put drip rail chrome on,put all new weatherstipping on, go the window felts on, and also installed new running lights on the side of the fenders.Also installed driver side mirror have to install passenger side i have to drill a hole because it is a passenger remote mirror.

3-22-08

Well She is finally purple and man does it look good. We (Me and my dad) painted it on friday march 21st. The pictures will tell the story this car came out laser straight.

3-3-08
Well its almost paint time in a few more days she will be purple. So here are some pics of the final body work i just have to sand down the little bit of glaze, wet sand, and seal it, then its paint time. And here is a picture of my engine i decided to paint it base coat clear coat also. Then when i start putting it back together i will put all new lenses on it which i spent 300.00 bucks for every turn signal, brake light, grill is brand new for it.

11-9-07
Finally got my cowl induction hood yesterday it has a wizard airbrushed on it. I am going to tape of the wizard and paint around it purple hopefully pretty soon. All i was waiting for was to get a cowl induction hood so i could paint it now i can save up for the paint and then it will be done.

2-8-07
I have been doing a whole bunch of stuff to the g-unit lately. As you can see in the pics i sanded the car down and got rid of all of the graffiti. Me and my dad have sanded and sprayed both quarter panels both doors the roof and the tailgate with grey urethane primer.We Just Base coated and Clear Coated the door jams and Inner fenders Purple today which is 2-8-07 to see all of the pictures go to page 2. We have the front clip off of the car I put POR-15 on everything from the firewall up and we took the 229 v-6 out and put in the 305 v-8 from my 81 in. I am putting a 350 in my 81.

Before and after pictures the one on the left is when i first got it the one on the right is the work i have done on it. I have not done any body work to the car all i did was strip all the paint off and sprayed primer over the body.

first pictures i took of My 1983 el camino that i bought Tuesday september 12th 2005.The guy i bought it from took it to a mechanic shop, he said that he thought it needed plugs and wires he said he knew nothing about cars.The shop took the carbuerator off and it was in a million peices so when i got the car we pulled it up on the trailer. So i went and got another carbuerator put it on and primed it once and the car started right up.I went to test drive it and i put it in reverse and it died, it would set and purr like a kitten but it would not go when you put it in gear.So we turned the distributor alittle bit and off i went, i took it down the highway at 65 mph it ran and drove like a dream. little did i know the steering wheel was not even bolted down, I was sitting in it and i pulled on the steering wheel and it came off!!! What would have happened if it would have came off when i was driving at 65, i would have been in trouble big time.Oh yea by the way it had a 231 v6 for a motor when i got it, i removed that engine and put in a 305 v8.

I went to the junkyard and bought a black headliner,black sun visors and black carpet all new out of a el camino that got wrecked. So i gutted the interior in it and i am redoing the interior to all black as you see i have the carpet in i have the column in and the headliner and sunvisors and the peices around the back window.

BEFORE

AFTER

The bed is in excellent shape it does not have one dent on the floor i found a few on the sides but not many. The bed is nicer than either one of my other el camino's.

Here is a rear picture of the el camino. I would like to beat the crap out of whoever did this to the el camino. But it no longer looks like this it now looks like a real car.This car has a perfect body there is not rust even the floor pans are perfect!

Picture of one of the wheels I have since took off the ugly centers,and it now has 3 spoke spinner centers which are on the right the wheels are going to be the same color as the car.

I have done a whole lot to this car in the 2 months i have had it. I have put it all in primer,removed the v-6 and dropped in a v-8,and I have Started converting the interior to black. The Paint will be Purple.This car is coming along pretty good hopefully in the next few months i will be driving it.

Check out my other 2 El Camino's.
My 1981 El Camino
My 1985 El Camino

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****Special Thanks to Alex for helping me so much****