In Search of Auto Parts
It was the middle of summer, and the El Camino was almost complete. The experiments with the truck accessories, namely the bull bars and brush guards, had not worked out as well as we’d hoped, but we’d settled for putting a gun rack with a bb gun on the back window. We decided that it gave El Camino more of a truck feel.
On the flip side, Mike had succeeded in putting fog lights on top, and generally just chroming out the El Camino. In addition to the obvious chrome rims he’d implemented, the gun rack and grill were both chrome, and he’d somehow lined the edges of the flatbed with chrome. It was shiny, to say the least.
The ladder rack project was coming along nicely. It was not necessarily on par with real removable ladder racks, but it’d worked well enough that we’d been able to do enough painting jobs for Mike to afford god knows how much money in chrome accessories.
The only thing missing that he desperately wanted were the Hella fog lights to replace the generic ones he had now. He reasoned that once he had those and he lifted the El Camino, we would be able to take it practically anywhere. I wasn’t sure if I believed him, but it sounded like a noble cause.
Unfortunately, Mike’s shop had stopped carrying the models he wanted, so we only had one choice: mini road trip.
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