Comments on: They got the “south” right

By: arizaphale

arizaphale — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 10:20:32 +0000

You mean they drive utes in other parts of the world? I thought they were a strictly Aussie thing! I must say the new utes are a major step up from the utes they drove in my heyday. In those days the back covers were canvas or some form of synthetic fabric. The last time I rode in one was out in the bush, probably chasing kangaroos in that macho endeavour known as ’spotlighting’. Ah…good times…

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By: Maggie, dammit

Maggie, dammit — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:19:01 +0000

I have never, ever understood the el camino.

I do, however, LOVVVVVE Lucinda. Good choice.

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By: Nathan B.

Nathan B. — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:43:38 +0000

I wish I was old enough to remember the original El Camino…

By: Vixen

Vixen — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:15:13 +0000

Hmmm, I am much, much fonder of the original. We are a old skool car family, but the men are into Camaros. I always wanted to restore an old El Camino and they always say ewww. Maybe it’s a chick muscle car?

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By: Gypsy

Gypsy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:21:38 +0000

My father had a black one when I was in high school. It embarrassed the crap out of me to be seen in it, but my guy friends loved it.

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By: Not Afraid To Use It

Not Afraid To Use It — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:53:22 +0000

Okay, I am totally fessing up that Hubbie and I both separately wanted to buy one and only recently told each other. I see them all the time on the road. Someday, I will drive one. Talk about a phenomenal way to embarrass your kids when you take them to college.

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By: Jessica K

Jessica K — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:20:20 +0000

HAHA! My boyfriend when I was fourteen got his first car while we were dating, a metallic brown El Camino! My brother and his friends made a sign that said “turd-mobile” and stuck it on the back before we left in it one time. He was cute enough at the time that I excused his embarassing ride, but I saw him recently… He looks like he should still be driving it, if ya know what I’m sayin’.

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By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:11:47 +0000

I had no idea those things are still around. Much nicer now, but they’re still ugly.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:03:50 +0000

When I was a young and impressionable lad (way back in the Me Decade), my neighbor had a TOTALLY BOSS bright orange El Camino. You completely described him here, except that his road music of choice was Foghat; or, as he preferred, “The Hat.”

Good to the EC is a hit in OZ. Truly, one could say, the future’s uncertain; the end is always near.

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By: courtney

courtney — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:27:10 +0000

Is that a cover over the trunk? El Caminos have gotten fancy!

There’s a song that I always sing whenever I see one: “El Caminoooo, blazing down de road, El Caminooo…” I have no idea where it came from or who sings it, but there it is.

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