There's a pretty good reason why you might not have heard about a Choo-Choo Customs El Camino SS. So this is like buying a double-custom classic for one very affordable price. I threaded the harness through the core support and installed it into place, and plugged in the lights just to see if they would work. Now this 1987 El Camino SS took that same spirit by preserving the right Choo-Choo and upgrading in the best places, including a 383 V8 stroker motor. Swap out this harness with the Monte Carlo LS one, and it connects to all of your wipers, pump and brake valve, I had to move the connector for the horn back down the harness since it appears that the Monte Carlo horn must have been located in the center of the grill. also there is a connector going to the brake proportioning valve that works the brake light. You will also have to disconnect the windshield washer and wiper motor, I found it easier to unbolt the wiper and the motor from the firewall to give me access to the bolt in the firewall. Once this bolt is loose you can then pull the harness straight out of the connector on the firewall. Once the harness was out of the core support I disconnected the horns and used a 1/4" socket to loosten the bolt that holds the harness connector to the firewall. Getting the sockets and turn signals through the space between the core support and the AC evaporator was hard but a large screwdriver allowed me to slightly bend the core support to allow them to be threaded through. It was held on by a bunch of plastic snap on clips, which broke when I tried to remove them. The Monte Carlo LS harness replaced the original El Camino SS one perfectly, the hardest part was getting the old harness out of the core support. See the photos, you just have to remove the big plastic connectors from the Monte harness by using a weatherpack connector tool to release the clips, then snap on the smaller plastic connectors from the Celebrity. The weatherpack connectors are the exact same on the Monte LS and the Celebrity, the wires are even the same colors. I could do without the running boards for a vehicle that’s only six inches above the pavement. The Choo Choo Customs version of the 1983 through 1987 El Camino is about the ultimate custom for this model, including a Monte Carlo nose piece. The only change needed is to remove the weatherpack connectors from the headlight plugs and snapping them into the Celebrity plastic plugs. The fifth-generation El Camino was made from 1978 to 1987 and then the model went away. From 1986-1988 the LS had sealed beam headlights, and although they are not a direct replacement for the SS nose, the wiring harness is a complete plug and play replacement for my original harness. After investigating the electrical issues I found that the easiest way to do everything neat and without hacking up the harness was to use a Monte Carlo LS wiring harness. I can replace the headlights with the sealed beam headlights making changing the bulbs simple like a new car. It was used again for the fiberglass units, with some modifications, made by Honest Charley.Figured I'd add this into the thread, I bought the 1990 Celebrity headlights and lauren engineering brackets for the Choo Choo Customs nose. This was the "blank" used to make the urethane units. The very first CCC nose was a fiberglass unit made by Terry Rutherford. The production numbers of the Designer Series printed on the later catalogs were a "guess-tament" formed by John Rodgers, Mike Goodman and himself. In fact, this custom was built for true everyday comfort thats why you have a four-speed automatic transmission w/overdrive, aluminum radiator, and electric fan. As for a record/list of production numbers, he did not recall seeing any. He said there were NO drawings, blueprints or molds, only parts and pieces(leftover purchases from vendors). On the following Monday, he and a couple of his "partners" returned to CCC and purchased the remaining inventory. I spoke with Joe Lomardo, at Honest Charleys a couple of months ago and he said that he lost his job at CCC on a Friday. So with all the different ownership transfers I can see how "IF" there were any production records they could have been lost. Legends Motors bought LA West in November 2006. Then sold to L A West van conversions in October 2000. I have been in touch with those guys and they don't recall seeing any paperwork/records being kept on production numbers.ĬCC was bought out of bankruptcy by the Faries in dec 1991.
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