Jalopnik: caminos

Jaguar XJSChero, Perfect For Your Italian Wine Toting Needs

Ben Wojdyla — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:00:00 EDT

These photos show a perfectly executed Jaguar XJS V12 conversion to a XJS-Chero. This baby was spotted carting around wine at a Jaguar dealer in Milan, Italy.

The elegant flying buttresses of the XJS are a perfect setup for a truck bed in the back, easily accomplished in this case with the removal of the trunk lid and the installation of a bulkhead and some aluminum plates. We'd have preferred some nice teak bed boards held in place with chrome strips, but beggers can't be choosers. It's definitely a helluva lot nicer than the clapped out version we saw in Project Car Hell. Now all it needs is some llamas in the back. [Autoblog.it]

Libertypage: A Chinese-Built Jeep Liberty Pickup Is, Un-Surprisingly, Quite Ugly

Ben Wojdyla — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:30:00 EST

We're generally for any kind of Caminoization/Rampaging/Rancherofication of standard production vehicles, but this Beijing Auto Works Jeep Liberty pickup is a powerful ugly. Ugly in a way that burns our eyes.

As yucky as the ripoff Libertypage is, there are other... vehicles, they plan to unleash on the public like the "Brave Warrior" and the "Luling Pickup." Just goes to show you, for every BYD F3DM we should take seriously, there are at least three Chinese entries to remind us how good we have it.
[The Tycho]

Corvettamino ZR-1 Is Pulling Our Leg, Still Awesome

Ben Wojdyla — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:20:00 EDT

Who needs a Pontiac G8 ST when you can have a bitchin' camino-ized C4 Corvette ZR-1? Nobody that's who. Fortunately for our still beating hearts, this is not really a ZR-1 turned truck/car — it's an '84 Vette smooshed together with a '91 with custom molds and bodywork to create that smooth Vettamino effect. According to ClassyAuto (misnomer?) this was the brainchild of the original owner of Bayliner Boats and took over $115K to create. Wow, that's camino love right there. We have no idea how up to date their website is, but the sale price at one time at least was a steal at $35,000... cough, cough, choke.... WHAT!

[ClassyAuto]

HSV Maloo R8 Ute On Sale In Oz

Jonny Lieberman — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:45:00 EDT

We're posting this out of raw spite, lust and jealousy. If you lived in Australia, you could walk out your front door, jump on the back of the first passing kangaroo and hop on down to the Special Vehicles wing of your local Holden dealer where the friendly (g'day) salesbloke will sell you a 407 horsepower 'camino. Not angry yet? The automatic transmission is optional and costs extra. Grrrrr! Sure the styling is less Mad Max than Georges Pompidou, but who cares? Sub-5 second factory car/trucks are the very fabric of dreams, 'camino dreams. How did Australia become heaven on earth again? [via Motor Authority]

DAF vs. FAF: The Dutch Beat the French: The DAF-Tjorvenamino!!!

Jonny Lieberman — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:15:22 EST

Go ahead, dude. Seriously, go ahead and even try to front on the quadruple-radical, insane mind-breaking magnitude that is a Dutch/Swedish Camino which started life as a postal van, sports an air-cooled boxer mill and has rubber bands connecting the continuously variable tranny to the rear wheels. Just try it, Johnson. We, along with Holland, exist in the form of the winner. – Jonny Lieberman

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DAF vs. FAF [Internal]

DAF vs. FAF: Kicking Davey G. in the FAF: The DAF Pony is Quite Simply the Radness

Jonny Lieberman — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 20:00:00 EST

We hate saying it Davey, but all your FAFaminos are now belongs to us. Actually, with this post we will state that all Frenchcaminos are now the sole property of us, too. The Pony pictured is mechanically identical to the regular DAF micro-car (2-banger air-cooled boxer mill, CVT with rubber bands powering the rear-wheels, prefers tulips) except the Pony can be had as a dump truck! Or, if you prefer, a semi-truck!!! In your face, Johnson, in your face!! Make the jump for more boots up Davey's backside. – Jonny Lieberman

LA Auto Show Broke: Drinking, Smoking and Sweating; The Jalopnik Way

Jonny Lieberman — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:52:23 EST

While nowhere near the triage conditions of the Paris Media Center, we still dislike press days at auto shows. Our ass hurts, the coffee's cold, we missed lunch, we missed the picture of the really fat journalist loading a plate of food while bitching about the quality and the pole-to-hole ratio is worse than you could possibly imagine. And another thing: where is all this video going? Why are there ten thousand men in lousy suits shooting so much footage of stationary objects? And why are they such jerks? Why does [CENSORED] from [Censored] smell so awfull? Ten million carmakers and not a single Camino concept? Why have we been up since 5:30 am? Why don't we just read about this on autoblog? What's that? The Audi booth is handing out highly precise mimosas? We love our job.