Indecisive

Most high school boys have a certain vehicle in mind when they think of their dream car, and many are fortunate enough to actually get something pretty close during their high school years. For some it's a sports car. For some it's a monster truck. For some it's an off road vehicle. For others it's a fixer-upper that they can tinker with every afternoon. Very few of us have such mixed emotions on this that we can't completely decide, but for those that fit in that category, the El Camino was invented. Is it a car? Is it a truck? Who knows? It hasn't made up its mind.

Up until this past weekend, I thought that the El Camino was the epitome of indecisiveness in cars. I really believed that you couldn't get any more mixed up between car and truck than that. I was mistaken. As we drove through Keatchi, Louisiana on our way to Shreveport, I nearly drove off the road as I stared in wonder at the automobile sitting in the front lawn of a mobile home resident. On the way back we had to stop and take a photo lest anyone think I was fabricating the entire thing.

Imagine if you really wanted a sports car, and you really wanted a monster truck, and you really wanted to go off road, but you could only afford one vehicle. What would you do in that situation? An El Camino doesn't even touch that. It's not even close to any of those things. For this special situation you've got to get out on a limb and make something entirely new. I like to call it the Camtanko. Here's the deal.

Start with a sports car. A Camaro works nicely. Install a lift kit because sports cars really don't have the ground clearance that you would need to go off road. As long as you have a lift kit on it, you might as well go ahead and add some nice big mud gripper tires. Now you're starting to get close to monster truck, but really, nothing says monster truck like smokestacks. To that end, reroute the dual exhaust through the hood and install smokestacks, and you're done. You're very own Camtanko. And if you don't believe it can be done, just check out the photo below.