Can you still buy a great driving, affordable muscle car in 2025? Answer – YES! And this is one of the best kept secrets in hot rodding…the ’73 ’77 GM A-Body. This week on Stay Tuned, Tony Angelo and the Stay Tuned crew set out on a winter adventure to snag what Tony says is one of the best driving muscle cars ever built. After 2 days in the shop fixing assorted things here and there, the dudes get this thing out in the streets, running and driving again! Is this still one of the best buys in hot rodding? STAY TUNED to find out!
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My buddy had a 73 with a 4sp in the late eighties. It was the first V8 manual transmission car I ever drove.
I also have 200 Rock Auto magnets.
“Like the side of a barn” made me laugh out loud
What do you mean never heard of? I've seen My Name is Earl.
i think the word [ muscle car ] gets used so easily ,,this is not a muscle car..its just a el'camino from the 70's..its like saying every chevelle is a muscle car..or ever ford fairlane is a muscle car..and thats not the case
Who the F is Carl Yarborough???
Now they know the secret!
I love me an el camino, all those utes.
My Dad had a '73 El Camino he bought brand new when I was growing up. It was brown, with a vinyl bench seat, 307 with a 3 on the tree, AM radio, no AC, steel wheels with poverty caps. I was not a big fan of it when ai was a kid, but I'd love to get an old El Camino and do a resto-mod. Swap the drivetrain, suspension, brakes, wheels/tires, add some modern conveniences, and just roll with it.
I had a 1976 SS, and I changed out the original steering wheel for the exact one you've got! The engine was shot so I put an donated LT-1 out of a 68 Corvette in it, with a 700R4 transmission. Repainted it, redid the inside including replacement swivels for the swivel buckets and new switches for the electric windows. Love that car, but after showing it a few times, I had to let it go unfortunately only to replace it with a 76 Corvette that needed TLC as well. Great cars, very buildable and unique.
You said "Cale and Dale had to be pry-ed out!!" 😂 maybe their seatbelts sucked?
My first car I bought when I was 15 was a 75 El Camino. Had a 400 small block and a turbo 400, Cragar keystones with cooper cobras, air shocks, tonneau cover and was repainted with low rider graphics. Bought it for $500. I was a weird mix of hot rod and low rider. Sold the keystones and was able to fit 10 inch reverse offset Cragar SS and 295/50's in the wheel well pretty easy. All I hand to do was roll the lip with a baseball bat and they fit fine. Learned to rebuild my first motor with that 400, punched it out to 406, dart heads, victor jr intake, pete jackson noisy gear drive and a demon carb. All the cool stuff 25 years ago. Put a shift kit in the transmission. Had glasspacks bolted directly to the headers, the thing was so loud it would rattle windows out of the drive thru. Scared the life of a girl I was dating at the time, she wouldn't go near my car again after the first drive. I drove that thing like the Dukes of Hazard, I loved that car. Tony's new car brings back a lot of memories and I'm all for it.
The front end isn't much to look at, but the side profile is really slick
That kick down needs attention. Good luck to you stone.
The front is like a car, the back is like a truck. The front is where we sit, the back is where we… El Camino.
I still have my 1974 Buick Landau.
Sat for thirteen years. Got it back on the road about 10 years ago while my truck was broke down. Needs some work and has rust issues, but rumbles and purrs beautifully.
Someday it will get the love it deserves.
THanks now 200K more people know. I'm also a big fan of the "Malaise" A bodies.
Put a Laguna front end on it
Did you say Carly Yarbrough @ 3:39? 🙂
Way too thin patch and it needs cut out, not covered
People will call anything a muscle car these days.😂😂😂😂
Great stuff, love this era Chevelles. Grew up in and learned to drive in a 75 Malibu Classic wagon. Same car just with wagon body. Same loose rattling thud when driver door is closed, same frame rot issues. We had whole frame rails robbed from a more solid junkyard Olds Cutlass wagon welded in to extend the life of it. Great driving and mechanically sound car, never left us stranded. Sold it with just under 200k miles to a guy needing an engine for his truck. Great memories, thanks for saving this ElCo guys!
All the best for the future endeavors Stone
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I have always liked these and the Lagunas, CanAm, Grand AM all those odd ball units that no one know about.
I even had an AFX car that was a NASCAR Laguna, or Malibu I think it had Waltrip colors(whi w Orange and Gold)..In 1982 I worked with the wife of a local salvage yard owner and she had the navy blue SS454 with factory stripes and stickers. I offeredalmost daily to buy it but she wantedto offer her little brother right of first refusal so I was second in line.Guess what happened there~! 🥲
That elco is a unit
The best videos are when you guys pickup a shit box and get it romping. 🎉
That's gotta be my favorite car of my life. I've been amazed by them since I was little, and have always wanted one. I've gone as far as looking into those Left Hand Utes, which are a bit pricey, and the Smythe kit for a used Charger, which I am no mechanic or fabricator.. Here is to hoping.
I love this era of chevys. I had a 77 Monte, one of my most favorite body styles. these Caminos are anything but cheap in my area though. usually a shell with a bunch of missing parts goes for 5 grand plus.
I agree with your statement of the undervalued model. My first car was a ‘74 Chevelle same color. Loved that car, 400 small block with 4 bolt mains and a turbo 400. Killer
Thanks, now everyone knows about it.
Barb "gimme like 5 pumps"
Tony "(snickers) big day"
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Good luck to Stone on his future adventures! Gonna miss that guy on the channel.
1973 was a horrible year. These cars are ugly as a mud fence! LOL! This what government control of design and engineering looks like. Slow heavy and more expensive in not good.
I thought you said we never knew about El Camino? These cars have always been awesome.
Tony must have loved the one him and Finnagan took ice racing, thought to himself I have lots of snow what am I missing ahh elcamino. Stone goes on down the road in an el Camino which means the road in Spanish. Cool episode