Friends, I have a problem. The other day I spied a dust-covered 1971 or 1972 El Camino SS sitting outside a local store, and I was enraptured by its siren song. It put a deep need to own a muscle ute ...

However, as Old Cars Weekly writes, engineers were concerned that making the El Camino too small would compromise its capabilities. Their solution was to make the El Camino’s body some seven inches ...