#1973 EL CAMINO REAR END SPECS WINDOWS#

The next step was in terms of equipment variants: Here the Bel-Air was used on the outside-Style - for example, tapered full-length bodyside moldings filled with Snowcrest White paint, and wide, light moldings across the side windows and rear roof edge. The dimensions of 5.36 m 2.03 m 1.43 m (LxWxH) were relatively modest for a pickup, but the Chevrolet El Camino was no ordinary pack donkey. On the body side, inspiration was drawn from the Impala sedan (absolutely identical down to the B-pillar), which didn't even do without the fashionable tail fins. The two-door station wagon Chevrolet Brookwood served as a platform, with only a slightly modified chassis. The coupe pickup El Camino was based on the '59 Chevrolet models of the time. In 1959 the time had finally come, the first Chevrolet with the Spanish name 'El Camino' (in English: 'the road') saw the light of day and was ultimately considered the answer to the Ranchero from Ford that had been introduced two years earlier. At GM, the idea of such a sedan pickup had been on the table since 1952, but it was never implemented. It must have been particularly annoying for GM (General Motors) when their arch-rival Ford beat them here with their Ranchero (coupé pickup). While the Cameo was a truck in every respect, it already offered many elements typical of a passenger car - such as two-tone paint, a smooth V-8 engine, automatic transmission, a relatively luxurious interior, and power assistance. Then, in the mid-1955s, the manufacturer brought out the Chevy Pickup Cameo Carrier(a more luxurious truck model within the 3100 Series/Task Force) which eventually paved the way for the Chevrolet El Camino. And indeed, Chevy already had such a model in its range in the 1920s, which followed the trend that followed (mid-1930s) – on truck platforms to go over - but had to give way. The basic idea of turning a passenger car into a commercial vehicle is almost as old as the automobile itself. Unlike a regular pickup, the El Camino was built on a two-door station wagon platform that integrated the cab and truck bed into the body. The El Camino was a pickup-style passenger car that combined the dramatic styling of Chevrolet cars of the time with a Half-Ton pickup. The Chevrolet El Camino (Gen.1) is a coupe utility vehicle that was produced and marketed from 1959 to 1960. Since the early 1970s, an identical sister model was sold by the General Motors brand GMC under the name Sprint, later as the Caballero.Ĭhevrolet El Camino - 1st Generation (1959-1960) The name comes from Spanish and means 'the way'. At Nitro we strive to meet demands for new ratios and Fits and we are continually developing new products to stay ahead of the competition.The Chevrolet El Camino was an open-bed pickup truck produced by the American car manufacturer General Motors under the Chevrolet marque from 1958 to 1960 and again from 1964 to 1987. Each new product is subjected to multi-point inspections and then actually installed and set up by Nitro's own in-house differential professionals to ensure excellent fitment and easy setup. Nitro also offers extra long-splined shafts which can be cut to length and blank shafts for custom spline machining. That means they take more punishment, to get you further down the trail or off the trail entirely. Known as a high strength, low carbon steel with a tensile strength of 228,000 psi opposed to OE standard 1040 steel with a tensile strength of 110,000 to 130,000 psi. Up to 35% stronger than OE axles.Ĥ340 cromoly steel, is a lower carbon steel with a minimum of 10% chromium by weight. The heat treatments make the metal harder, with out making it brittle with a tensile strength of 181,000 psi.

All of our axles are precision machined to OE specifications for excellent fitment.ġ541H steel is a heat treated, carbon steel with. Nitro 4340 chromoly axles are also heat treated but are designed with extra material for strength where it's needed. Our OE replacement axles are made of 1541H steel for a 25-35% increase in strength over their stock counterparts. Nitro 1541H steel and 4340 alloy & chromium and molybdenum alloy axles commonly known as 'chromoly':

1973 el camino rear end specs