In 1970, the 396 CID V8s that had been used for a few years were modified to 402 CID, though the name didn’t change. Fortunately, the practicality that had brought the El Camino so many fans in the first place would keep the car popular throughout the coming years, regardless of what was happening under the hood.Īnd what was happening in 1971 was a detuning that left nearly all of El Camino’s engine options with less horsepower than they had had the previous year. With all of this added together, the era of the muscle car would be essentially killed off by 1975. Additionally, insurance rates also were on the rise at the time and the first oil crisis was just a couple years off.
And it could still be considered that in 1970 (when equipped with one of the top-performing V8s), but 1971 can be seen as the beginning of the end of the El Camino as a muscle car.īut this wasn’t just the doing of Chevy – the entire auto industry was headed this way at the time, and each subsequent year would find more and more government regulations to control emissions and safety. By the time the 1970s rolled around, the El Camino was a full-fledged muscle car. But as the car grew throughout the mid-1960s, so did the performance options.
465 CAM 350 1971 CHEVY TRUCK DRIVER
When the second-generation El Camino was introduced in 1964, it was presented as a car-based pickup truck that would give the driver the practicality of a truck with the drivability of a car.
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