There have been plenty of weird vehicles produced over the years, including that thing that became known as the Chevrolet El ...

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.