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The Monte seems to have already hit a world record price for '72 Monte Carlos
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Wow, $38K with 6 weeks to go in the auction!
Back to the 77Z, I always hated that era when GM painted the Chevy engines blue. I ordered a new 78 Chevy pickup with a 350 V8 and as soon as the 1 year warranty was up, I pulled the engine over a weekend and painted it the 'proper' Chevy orange. Shortly thereafter I pulled the column shifted 3 speed manual and installed a Muncie 4 speed. I was a lot more ambitious in those days....
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You probably picked up about 10 HP just with the color change. |
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I remember how bleak things looked automotive-wise back in the late 70's and early 80's. It was looking like the musclecar was soon going to be extinct. At that time very few could envision that 30+ years in the future you could walk into the dealership and order a car that had 500+ HP, could get 25+ MPG on the highway, could outperform a lot of the all-out race cars in the 70's, and still had all the creature comforts like AC, power windows, and leather interiors.
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This auction ends this Friday morning at 10am. The 77 z28 is at $36K.
https://www.proxibid.com/VanDerBrink...=1595346590468
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Whoops I was wrong. Auction begins at 10am CST on Saturday July 25th
https://www.proxibid.com/VanDerBrink...=1595346590468
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1969 Camaro RS/SS Azure Turquoise 1969 Camaro Z/28 Azure Turquoise 1984 Camaro z/28 L69 HO 5 speed 1984 Camaro z/28 zz4 conversion 1987 Monte Carlo SS original owner |
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1976 had to be the low water mark for performance among U.S. produced cars. I have posted many time about an article that Road & Track ran on the fastest cars made in America in 1976. The fastest car was almost ..... a Chevy truck. Could still get a 454 in the truck. The truck came in second to a Corvette that managed something like 124 mph. The fastest car Ford could put in the line up was a 302 powered (and I use the term generously) Mustang II, at 105 mph. Can you imagine? Of course you can, as most of you were around. I freakin Focus can do better than that. Hell, my 1.1 liter Opel GT can break 100! Remember, the horrible performance of the time is what fueled the first wave of muscle car mania. JMHO, but in some ways, this car was ground breaking (re-breaking) as it signaled Chevy's attempt at muscle. Yeah, the giant heavy doors suck, and quality control was on par with a Yugo, but still, it was just a glimpse of what was to come.
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Sold for $71,500, WOW!
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The Monte Carlo SOLD for $105,000K
Dan
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They must have pulled in the same bidders as they had at the Lambrecht Chevy auction
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