1982 Chevrolet El Camino SS: Automatic Only, and a Blank SS Cell

This record's own overview states that Tradecraft Specialties lists RPO Z15 as the El Camino's Super Sport package throughout the 1978-1987 run, named "El Camino SS" for 1982, and describes it as up-level trim with SS badging and rally wheels rather than a distinct model line. This record's own dek identifies the car as the fifth-generation El Camino, adding that Team Chevelle's production totals give 22,732 El Caminos built for 1982 with the SS-specific share not stated on that same page.¹

This record's own key facts state that Chevrolet priced the 1982 El Camino Super Sport, model 1GW80 with Z15, at $8,243.85 MSRP against $7,994.85 for the base 1GW80, at the start of the model year. They add that for 1982 every El Camino power team listed the MX1 automatic, with no manual transmission appearing anywhere in the chart, a fact this record's own transmissions section confirms by listing MX1 alone as the only transmission offered with every engine.

This record's own production rows carry a single total from Team Chevelle, 22,732 El Caminos for 1982, with a note explaining that the same source page's own El Camino SS cell for the year is blank, marked with a question mark rather than a figure, so no SS-specific row could be added from that source. The production notes state plainly that no Chevrolet factory production report was seen and that no El Camino SS-specific count was found anywhere for this year, leaving the 22,732 figure the only production number this record carries with any confidence.²

This record's own unpublished leads section flags a Wikipedia claim of 3,207 SS units for 1982, attributed to the same Team Chevelle page whose 22,732 total figure this record's production rows already confirm directly; the note explains that because the source page's own SS cell was read as blank on 2026-09-25, the 3,207 figure could not be independently confirmed and is held as a lead rather than promoted to a production row, a distinction this record draws carefully between a total it has verified and a subtotal it has not.²

This record's own engines section documents a 110-horsepower LC3 229 V6 standard outside California, a 110-horsepower LD5 231 V6 for California only at no additional charge, a 115-horsepower L39 267 V8 optional at $70.00 with standard emissions, and a 150-horsepower LG4 305 V8 also optional at $70.00, both V8 options priced identically that year. Its transmissions section lists only the MX1 automatic, describing it as the only transmission offered with every engine in every state.

This record's own options section documents Z15 as an unpriced trim-package entry sourced to the Tradecraft reference, alongside the L39 267 and LG4 305 engine options each priced at $70.00 for initial shipment of 1982 models, the same $70.00 figure appearing twice for two different displacements rather than scaling with engine size. This record's own performance, identification, and conflicts sections are all empty for 1982, a gap it carries without substitution even though its engines, transmissions, and options sections are each fully documented from the same GM information kit.