Sure enough, when the 1959 models were introduced, Chevrolet had its own car-based pickup. Like the Ranchero, its all-new El Camino was a wildly repurposed station wagon.

El Camino spent its entire life with the same owner; the time has come to find a new place to sleep if the right man finds it ...

We thought hard about Ford's legacy of overlooked muscle cars, considering price as well as relative cultural importance, and we feel that we may have found the most underappreciated of them all.

Unlike Ford, which continued production through 1979, Chevy did not make an El Camino in 1961 to 1963 as sales of the 1960 models weren’t good and trailed Ranchero sales, 21,000 to 14,000.

Henry Ford perfected the assembly line process to help make his Model T one of the most important products in American industrial history, and the company he built still thrives today. Ford's 10 ...

That would be this 1972 Ford Ranchero GT – the Ranchero, sold between 1957 and 1979 – actually appeared before the Chevy El Camino, even if the latter remained more famous thanks to its ...

Introduced for the 1959 model year, the Chevy El Camino was the Bow Tie’s response to the Ford Ranchero. The El Camino was built on General Motors’ B-body platform, utilizing the Safety-Girder ...

Unlike Ford, which continued production through 1979, Chevy did not make an El Camino in 1961 to 1963 as sales of the 1960 models weren’t good and trailed Ranchero sales, 21,000 to 14,000.

First, the Ford Ranchero debuted in 1957 and never looked back, all the way through its final 1979 production year. Not only did Ranchero precede Chevy’s 1959 El Camino effort by two full years, ...

First, the Ford Ranchero debuted in 1957 and never looked back, all the way through its final 1979 production year. Not only did Ranchero precede Chevy’s 1959 El Camino effort by two full years ...

Q: Greg, I know you race Chevy cars and also own a nice MOPAR, too. But I feel you will be 100-percent fair when I ask if you feel the Ford Ranchero had it all over the Chevy El Camino? I’m a ...