“I believe this 1970 El Camino SS 454 LS6 to be the most highly documented car of this type,” he says. The El Camino cockpit features a four-speed shifter and tachometer inset in the dashboard. Before shipping the car back to Canada, Wear had a well-known engine and race car builder in Sydney rebuild the engine, transmission and rear end to the original factory specifications. He sold his Shadow Gray LS6 El Camino in 2001 to the same owner that he bought his current Forest Green car from. There, the El Camino had numerous proud owners and became infamous in the late 1970s and early 1980s as the fastest car around, knocking off all comers on the street and drag strip.
Two years later, he sold the car to a co-worker and friend who eventually took the car to his home in Hinton, Alberta, and then on to Port Alberni on Vancouver Island. In fact, he would also carry a 45 gallon drum of fuel and a pail of two-cycle oil along with his surveying equipment back and forth on the 1,322 kilometre trip north. An image from December of 1970 with the El Camino loaded up with a 1969 Blizzard 775 Ski Doo heading for Pine Point, NWT. “I had a snowmobile along with my work gear to haul,” the now 72-year-old said from his home near Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
In addition to its obvious performance attributes, there was another reason Torgerson ordering car which he had seen advertised in Hot Rod magazine early in 1970. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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