Will the Rat Machine trend catch on? I did the Power Tour® this summer with my son, Graham, in his ’65 El Camino. Along the way, we had plenty of time to bench race about what we wanted to do with his car. What we came up with is not much different from what Douglas Glad did with his ’64 El Camino with the paint tricks that is on the Dec. ’08 cover. Graham wants to paint his El Camino satin black, which makes doing the bodywork on the car as we go along easy to do. Then I had a thought. Graham is named after his great-grandfather, Graham Lane. I worked for him at a Skelly gas station in Boone, Iowa, for five wonderful summers as a kid. When the station closed, my grandmother gave me the Lane's Skelly rubber stamp and ink pad he used on all his receipts and statements. My pal Steve Strope suggested scanning that stamp imprint and then making a template we could use to place on the doors of the El Camino. This would make the El Camino appear like his great-grandfather's shop truck. All I have to do now is talk my son into it. As a last resort, I can always bribe him with new wheels or something.