My mother bought Elliott, the El Camino, for my college graduation from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. in December of 1985.  It was beautiful.  I had a new stereo installed, and had a custom made tonneau cover made for it.  About a month before I was to go into the military, it started stalling in intersections.  The carburetor would overflow and the gas would ignite.  I decided this was not the vehicle I should have to drive around as a new Air Force officer, so I traded it in on a. 1986 Pontiac Sunbird GT.