1975 Monte Carlo

[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.