Week With El Tio Winner

Winner Andy Herr

After a long winter's rest, spring-time brought the rebirth of a used, 27-year-old El Camino named "El Tio".

Yes, our bastard child of a truck and a sedan was back to dominate the road to fast-food glory again this spring. (But, since the odometer, speedometer, and gas gauge are all still broken, there's a good chance we'll be in the break-down lane of that glorious road.)

To celebrate her triumphant return, we decided to drive around a family member in El Tio for a week (that's if they'd actually be willing to be seen in an El Camino that's covered with flames, b.good logos, and a picture of Uncle Faris' fat head) and pick up dinner for them and the people they live with on the way home every night.

So, in the most important week of her fast-food career, El Tio did what she hasn't done in a decade - successfully transport human cargo to an intended destination twice a day for 5 consecutive days.

Hazardous fumes blew into her cock-pit; parking tickets rained down upon her windshield; the odometer, speedometer, and gas gauge on her dashboard never flinched.

But, the greatest car in fast-food never caved in.

And it's a good thing she didn't since the customer who won our "Win A Week With El Tio" contest had a shattered pelvis and couldn't walk.

Contest winner, Andy Herr, was in a horrible skiing accident this winter. And since he actually needed a chauffeur (even if that chauffeur operated a flame-covered half-car half-truck), his friend submitted this contest entry on his behalf.

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