Hi,

a few more questions about my '64 el camino.

it's an el camino custom according to the vin, w/ a v8. it came with a late model 383 stroker, so i'm curious of how i could find out its original engine configuration.

also, i noticed that it was built in los angeles, and came with a muncie 4 speed (an option supposedly only from kansas city factory according to documents on this site).

if it had the muncie 4 speed, would it have had a console as well or just the shifter coming through the carpet with boot? anybody have pics of this setup?

jason

The Vin tag will tell if it was a 6 or 8 cylinder engine only, not the horsepower rating. The manual transmission could be installed with or without a floor console. Yours most likely had a console since it was a Custom. You can tell if one was installed by the type of shifter hump on the transmission tunnel of the floor pan. The console had a flat topped typed on hump, the non-console type was more rounded to the tunnel contours. Look at a Repro sales catalog and you can see the two types.

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Brian TC#1092, ACES#4374
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1965 El Camino (http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/65elcamino1b.jpg) Before Restoration (http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/65elcamino1a.jpg) (My Hotrod)
1981 Corvette (http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/65elcamino81.jpg) (Daily Driver)

so you're saying the tranny tunnel of a console car has a flatter top than that of a non console car, huh? my car currently has one of those cheeesy pep boys console buddy plastic cupholder/change drawers over the hole in the floor. i'll have to pull it off to check it out, as it also currently has a b&m ratchet shifter and a turbo 350, not a muncie 4 spd...