SIA Flashback – Double Play: The Utilitarian Beauty of Chevrolet’s 1938 Coupe-Pickup
El Camino’s granddad? It doesn’t have a dedicated bodystyle, but the 1938 Chevrolet Master coupe-pickup that Arch Brown and Bud Juneau tracked down for SIA #183, May 2001, does incorporate a pickup bed by removing the trunklid and sliding it into the trunk area. Brown didn’t go so far as to pick up a load of manure with the blue Chevrolet for his road test, but he did come back with driving impressions and found it comparable to contemporary solid-axle cars from Ford and Plymouth.
