1975 Monte Carlo
 

Happy New Year to all!
Just wanted to get some feedback from the group on this vehicle.
My father owned one back in the day and it caught my eye.
What do you think it will go for?
Does it look like a real low mile car?
Any red flags?

Thanks in advance for your feedback!

Pic ? link ? I don't see anything...:confused2:

https://www.mecum.com/lots/FL0122-48...t-monte-carlo/

Sorry, my mistake! Still foggy from NYE celebrations! ��

Im guessing it may hit $20K

Swivel Buckets help the desirability

Looks nice! Alarm key in LF fender and it will need new tires. $ 16,000 ?

A/C clutch is smoked also.

That is a very nice car, no reason to think mileage is not actual, interior pops against the red. Price range really depends on who is in the audience right. If there are two people like you that have a memory of that car or it being their Dad's car, it could go quite high. To me, I would be in for high teens, maybe $20k but I am sure some will think I am crazy and others may think that is low, all depends on the audience and origin of their interest. It is a car that I would be happy to own and enjoy.

My dad had a new triple black 75 and it had bucket seats. I owned a 1973 at the same time. Both had the swivel buckets and center console. Odd that one you posted has no console or even bucket seats.

Lower option car. For me, the "I got to have it" number is a max of $18k but I'm sure it will bring more at Mecum. I had a '75 as a DD and put 150k miles on it!

this is the first one i have ever seen with a column shift and swivel buckets

No console gets you column shift, regardless of seating choice. Love the giant 'fuel economy' gage next to the speedo....a sign of the times, for sure. Looks like a really nice car.

I've never seen a bucket and no console either. I'll bet it brings at least $25,000. These cars are on the rise.

those cars are very hard to find in decent cond, this one looks amazing,i know of a couple guys that looked for a nice one for a long time, they just aren't out there i say 30k

Buckets with column shift quite uncommon. Had a '73 in the mid 80's. Power bench, tach and a 350 4 barrel. Great road car. I'd be surprised if it goes for less than $25k.

I have to tell you that I really like this car, pretty colors.

Loved them when they came out new, beautiful lines. Some of the heaviest doors ever hung on a car right there

Yes, it is a nice combo!
I know you are a Vette guy and I recently saw a 67 BB vert with this combo red, with white interior, roof and stinger and it looked stunning!
My Dad’s MC was silver with white roof and interior.
I remember as a kid that white interior hard to keep clean.

My Dad didn’t keep the MC for long, he traded for a 1975 Tbird, talk about heavy doors!

Not crazy about that alarm key. ☹️

How can you tell?
Fyi - i’m a waxer!

Me too, rare and unusual combo for sure!
Would much rather have the floor shift and console for sure!

Thanks for the input so far.
Surprised how high some think it will go for!
Didn’t think there was much of a market for these.
I’ve been to my share of car shows and auctions and these don’t seem to show up in the sea of 60’s and 70’s muscle.

I had a 77 in college. Most reliable car ever and rode like a dream for the 3 hour trip to school. Had a lot of fun in that car and beat the tar out of it - by the time I sold it after college there literally wasn't a single panel that was straight including the roof and hood. Our Mom affectionately called it the "beer barge". Ask my brother how it was for doing peg leg burnouts........:burnout:

That car was a beast! Great one legged wonder burnouts!:haha:

Bought a new 76 MC with a 400 small block. Drove it for 10 years and 175,000 miles or more. Wish I had bought two of them instead of just the one. Mine was silver, A/C, power windows, bench seat, on the column TH350, 2.93 positraction, no vinyl top, cloth seats. Cloth seats were still in great shape at the very end. During the first two years I was paying the car payments with winnings from bracket racing. 15.90 @ 89 mph with slicks. Only change was 1974 style true dual exhaust and Transgo shift kit. Car would do awesome Rockford style u-turns, both forward and backwards. That was murder on the belted radials though. Never got even one ticket while driving the car, even with all the badski stuff I did. Ran it up to 90 mph on a limited access county road before I had put ten miles on it. I'd buy another duplicate in a heartbeat.

I'm flabbergasted at the comments about driving comfort. We had a 77 with bench seat and I found it to be very uncomfortable on long trips. It was a 305, a totally gutless POS that wouldn't have been able to do a peg-leg burnout even if you put Crisco under the rear tires. Got rid of that after about one year, and never missed it at all. Had a 71 Monte prior to that and an 84 SS later on and they were both fine.

My dad's car was similar to this with simulated wire wheel covers but had black interior with Landau top. It was a sharp car and rode great.
It was a 350 w/4bbl.

That sounds like our '73 (maroon, no vinyl on the top, swivel buckets, rallys). Dad saw it sitting on the lot and sort of spontaneously bought it.

I think it had a 1:1 rear axle ratio. It would barely make it up our driveway.

We sold that and got the '74 Chevelle that I still have today.

K

I like the black over blue...

I was walking through a local warehouse with a friend who stores cars there... and turn the corner and there sits a 77 Monte carlo with 8336 miles black over red - original tires holding air and at least 1/4" of dust on the entire thing.
He had no idea who owns it.

It might not be obvious to everyone, but that shifter is a ratchet type unit.

In other words, you can pull the shifter all the way back to hold L1, release, then push diagonally to slam into 2, and again into 3.

I didn't know this until after I had been racing for quite some time and a spectator pointed it out to me.

I still use that production shifter, with a B&M manual valve body. I prefer it over a reverse pattern manual shift, because you can brace yourself against the seat back as you are shifting (plus - I get to retain the production shifter).

This is the exact same interior that was in our Monte. When dad ordered the Chevelle he told them he wanted the same interior, with the black/grey vinyl herringbone weave, swivel buckets, gages (including tach), floor shift and console.

In fact - had we not bought that Monte Carlo - my Chevelle probably would be a '73 SS, rather than a base Malibu in '74.

K

Very cool story. Always thought the 400 was an underrated engine.

Looks like it sold for $38K plus fees! $41.8K
WOW!!!
BIG $$$ in my mind!

And the madness of 2021 prices rolls right on into 2022.


I have to start rethinking the values of my cars. I think I have my '67 ss/rs insured for around 18k...:dunno:

WOW!....did not see that coming. I cannot see any upside to spending that much on that car, Buyer must have had an extra Martini before bidding.

Not surprised at all, that thing was as nice as i have seen, look at the dash in it, looks like day 1

now i see why i brought big$$$ that "foot" dimmer switch

*sigh*
I cut up so many of them Dirt racing late 80's early 90's...lol
the engine setback and frontend geometry made for a helluva stockcar!