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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. |
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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........
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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.
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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.
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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.
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markinnaples (01-04-2022), scuncio (01-05-2022) |
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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
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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.
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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
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