Originally based on the 1959 Chevrolet Brookwood (basically a Biscayne station wagon), the El Camino was a reactionary vehicle, built to compete directly with the Ford Ranchero. What isn't as well ...

While Ford was first to market with the pickup-cum-car Ranchero, and El Camino has attained universal descriptor status, like Kleenex, it looks like Kaiser presaged the idea in 1954 with this one-off.

Introduced for the 1959 model year, the Chevrolet El Camino was designed to compete with the Ford Ranchero (launched in 1957). Discontinued in 1960, it returned in 1964 and remained in production ...