68 EL CAMINO BED MANUAL

The latches I got can mount sideways, going to mount them on the inside of the bed sides and put the aluminum 'L' bracket on the tonneau frame, thus no wiring on the bottom of the tommeau frame nor any connections at the front of the tonneau to disconnect if/when I want to take the tonneau off.

I ended up ordering 2 12v electric solenoid latches (see attached picture), close to what Kingstir has, just going to do it a bit different. Introduced in the 1959 model year in response to the.

Unlike a standard pickup truck, the El Camino was adapted from the standard two-door Chevrolet station wagon platform and integrated the cab and cargo bed into the body. bed with back bumper new take off white1933 Ford Radiator cap. The Chevrolet El Camino is a coup utility vehicle that was produced by Chevrolet between 19591987.

68 EL CAMINO BED MANUAL

I saw what some of you did and realized that with the 3rd gen's, you need some sort of electric latch, unless I am missing something here when the tailgate is closed/ and tonneau is latched, how do you get it open with the manual latches? To close it you can put the tonneau down, latch it down, then carefully close the tailgate, but opening is a problem. 1968 to 72 chevy chevvelle / el camino parts. OK, got the Craftec Tonneau cover, took it out of the box, going to put the frame together and put it on my '68 tomorrow, have to setup a work table (saw horses with a sheet of plywood).

68 el camino bed