'73 Chevelle SS454

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by Keith Seymore

Noice!

My car would probably be a '73 SS if we hadn't gotten that stupid Monte Carlo instead.

K

Random Yenko.net Member: "Hey Keith - what was the deal with that Monte Carlo?"

Me: "Oh - hey. Thanks for askin."

So in the summer of '72 it was time to replace our '68 GTO, since we kind of were on a four year cycle for mom's car.

Normally dad would order his cars and trucks directly from the factory, so that he could fine tune the content and get exactly what he wanted.

He happened to be driving past Applegate Chevrolet there in Flint and saw a new for '73 Monte Carlo that caught his eye. It was the dark maroon color, no vinyl top, rally wheels and had the black and grey herringbone weave interior, swivel buckets and gages. It was love at first sight and he ended up buying it off the lot.

The only problem was - it was cursed. It must have had a 1:1 rear axle ratio, because it would barely get up our driveway. Mom would hook that big ole front end on the side of the garage while backing out, and about the time we would get the car (and the garage) fixed she would hook the other side.

It all finally came to a crashing halt - literally - when she got T boned going through an intersection. That was the last straw. Dad pieced it back together and got rid of it as soon as humanly possible. He ordered my Chevelle, which was built in September of 1973, and the rest is, as they say, history.

You can see some of the vestigial elements, like the black and grey interior, rally gages, swivel buckets and rally wheels that he liked from the MC and carried over into my car.

K