1975 Monte Carlo

[JRSully]

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

[Luvchevs]

Originally Posted by JRSully

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

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

[Luvchevs]

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.

[RPOLS3]

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........

[dykstra]

Originally Posted by RPOLS3

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........

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

[John Brown]

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.

[msclassiccars]

Originally Posted by John Brown

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.

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

[Bill Pritchard]

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.

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Bill Pritchard

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.

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

[hogdaddy]

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.