- Seller: Jim M (Contact)
- Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico
- Mileage: 82,318 Shown
- Chassis #: 133896K148659
- Title Status: Clean
- Engine: 350 cui V8
- Transmission: 4-Speed Manual
We’ve talked about “box-checkers” here on Barn Finds before, and I’m not talking about the people bagging your groceries at the checkout line. I mean, cars and trucks, or in this case, a little of both, that check so many boxes that they fall toward the top of the must-have list. This 1966 Chevrolet El Camino is a major box-checker, and the seller has it listed here as a Barn Finds Auction!
First things first: we see so many bad photos here, as most of you do as well. Sellers who couldn’t care less about providing nice photos showing vehicles inside and out, not cutting parts of the vehicle off, no interior photos, no engine photos, no underside photos, etc. Not here, my friends, this seller gets a huge gold star for some of the best photos I’ve seen in a long time! And how about this car?! A second-generation El Camino with a V8 and 4-speed? Yes, please.
This is what life will be like when you end up with the winning bid on this El Camino; it’s the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. 1967 was the last year for the desirable second-generation El Camino, and this car is said to originally have had a six-cylinder and column-shifted three-speed manual. That’s not a bad combo at all, but the seller bought it from someone in El Paso who changed that out for a built 350 V8 and a Muncie 4-speed manual with a Hurst floor-shifter. There are a few nicks and dings on the exterior of this car, but overall, it looks nice and solid in the many photos the seller has provided.
As with the exterior, the interior of this car isn’t ready to be judged at Pebble Beach, but it looks nice overall. The seat has been brought back to more of an original style bench-style seat and is newly recovered. The seller mentions having a custom-made lockable bed cover made, and that’s a super handy feature, since there isn’t a lot of interior space to hide your valuables. There’s the Hurst shifter poking out from the Muncie M22 4-speed transmission. This car also has a “Classic Auto Air” A/C unit, which was installed five years ago.
With a weekend of detailing, this engine compartment could look fantastic. This engine is said to be a 350-cu.in. V8, and we don’t know the specs, but it has a mild racing cam and a four-barrel Edlebrock carb on top of an Edlebrock intake manifold. You can see the A/C compressor, and this car is a strong runner and will spin the rear wheels without much problem. This looks like a super nice car to just drive and enjoy, and pick away at a few things on weekends. Please check out all of the photos and get your bids in on this ’66 El Camino here on Barn Finds Auctions!
Bid On This Auction
Jay Sea bid $7,500.00 2025-12-04 07:11:36
Escargot42 bid $6,100.00 2025-12-03 18:24:34
ddh2153 bid $5,600.00 2025-12-03 15:32:25- Jay Sea bid $5,000.00 2025-12-03 11:32:39
David bid $1,100.00 2025-12-03 11:12:43
Dave Lomax bid $600.00 2025-12-03 09:50:00
nhox42 bid $100.00 2025-12-02 16:52:30
Very nice El Camino really like the white paint with the red interior you can drive without needing to worry if it gets a nick in the paint. Not sure but looks like two different from the first photo compared to the rest of the photos regardless i would love to own this El Camino.
I meant to say two different seats.
Lakota, good eye! The previous owner had bucket seats in there, and the seller mentioned putting a more stock-configuration bench seat in it. I mentioned in the third paragraph that it had been changed to a more stock configuration.
Dusty engine sounds great. Cool car, 4sp makes it a real dandy..good luck w the auction Jim. 🏁
You ought to hear it going through the gears! It’s an absolute screamer!
Nice. Only thing I would change is to remove that red body side molding.
I kinda like the idea of the red side molding, but not just a paint stripe. How ’bout getting 62 Impala side molding in it’s place? A couple of the pictures show a Corvette center cap on the steering wheel, so maybe it’s got one. I also like the red bench seat in it, looks well done. A little engine bay clean up and a little pressure washing while it was on the life would probably bring him some more money. How hard would it have been to have the engine emblems on the front fender match? All that being said, I’d really like to have this car!
The red stripe is painted. It is not molding. Jim
Headline says a 66 but article says a 67, which is it?
It’s a 66. BF got the year wrong in the first write up.
Jim
Nevermind, I read it wrong!
I like it Scotty and good writeup! This one is hard to pick at, but some detailing under that hood would come first, along with aluminum radiator and a couple electric cooling fans for our FL heat. I like the wheels, but they just don’t fill the wheel wells right. A set of 8″ SS Magnums or same size Vette rallies would top this sweet little package off.
I’m a big mid sixties El Camino fan as I had a ’67 L-79 4 speed that I restored, but there are a couple of things about this one that would give me pause. That red stripe, (or body molding) is horrendous, and the fact that the seller didn’t bother to clean up under the hood and find a center cap for the steering wheel tends to make me think that it mat not have had the best of care. (Also, as Cooter mentioned, 8″ Vette rallies would help tremendously)
That seat upholstery is of 67 vintage I mean how hard is it to cover the new seat in the correct upholstery!!
The wheels came from an early 60s Impala. I believe 62. Good eye on the replaced seat. It is from a 67 Chevelle.
Jim
I agree that this one does check all the boxes. Love the white over red and the stripe looks like it belongs there. Nice looking ride I think one could live with.
I’ve had at least 1 66 – 67 ElCamino continuously since high school (over 50 years! Where does the time go?) The one in the picture was a California 396 4 speed with factory AC. It was rust free and had the bright blue bench seat interior. I sold it to partially come up with a down payment for our farmstead in 1983. I still have the build sheet I found inside the front seat.
I still have a black/red interior 66 ElCamino that needs a good going over, hasn’t hit the top of the project list yet but…..
I like the featured 66, but agree the red stripe and the wheels need to go. I ran 69 – 70 Chevelle SS wheels on mine and still like the looks but 14″ tires are hard to find. I don’t like the 17″+ wheels but could live with 16″. Corvette 15X8 rallys are about perfect.
The wheels came from an early 60s Impala. I believe 62.
Jim
I use to own a ’66 El Camino. Black with a red interior. Man, that thing was a looker. Zero rust. Zero Bondo.
I’d probably still have her today if I hadn’t wrapped it around a ’75 F100 running a red light. Luckily every body walked away none the worse for wear.
Thankful for that, it was just a bucket of bolts.
What in the world is that big hole that seems to be cut in the floor above the transmission? Looks rough to me.
Otherwise it is a very nice ride.
What ratio rear end is in it?
When I bought the truck it had a 411 posi. It was built to drag race. I changed it out to a 308 from a 67 Chevelle. The 411 will come with the pkg if I get my price. Jim