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Thanks for posting! After I bought my 71, my high school friend got a 71 SS 454, tan with a dk brn vinyl roof like in one of the pictures. Sadly he was T Boned while driving it, when a dump truck ran a red light. No injuries but totaled the SS 454. 😞

Welcome Brant! Great looking Monte.

If we are talking about the same thing, it's the switch that will turn on the parking brake "warning light" on the dash. I forgot to plug it back in one time and I drove the car 5 + miles with the parking brakes ON!! My Monte Carlo, is a 1971. I don't know if that matters. Not sure but the return spring (that releases the tension on the rear brakes) is part of the parking brake cables (I THINK) The {GROUND} screw I have an arrow pointing to, is the ground wire attachment point for the dashboard harness.

When I replaced the heater core on my 71 (No A/C) Monte, it turned into a real snowball. Since I had the carpet and dash all out I also blasten and painted the parking brake mechanism. Here is a picture.. before and after. I can't find the painted picture of it.....

Welcome Jeff! Enjoy.

Another Picture:

One very important thing to remember is the shift indicator cable (If you have a column shifter) is very easy to break. See attached picture: This is one thing to watch out for, I knew about it and still broke mine. I had my dash all out of the car when I pulled the cluster.

Took the first ride since the new battery a month ago. Cranked very quickly and fired up faster than I expected. Took a short drive and all is not too bad... 1- Trans leaking 2- Plastic right inner fender cracked (nothing new) big time.

3 more pics of the evap system on my 71: This was leaking vacuum (see the damage) so I replaced the entire canister many years ago. This small blue restrictor was inside one of the small hoses, shown on the diagram below. I almost threw that restrictor out the day I replaced all the small hoses.

Picture from my 71 350 4bbl Monte. Lots of small hoses attached to all this

Not mine but will this help you???

That reminds me how prior to ELPO (A PPG name I believe) or electroplating primer, cars were dipped into a tank of, what we called at DuPont, "BLACK DIP PRIMER". When I restored my 71 back in the 80's I worked at DuPont Automotive finishes laboratory in Troy, Michigan, and we had black dip primer available. It required baking at 400 F. for 30 minutes to cure. We did have large ovens at the lab and I was able to prime the entire Radiator support core and the top plate. That was a long time ago and it still looks great! Good times!!!

Reading these posts reminds me of when I still had the original thin single white sidewall Goodyear G70x15 tires on my 71. A friend of mine (His name is also Bruce) bought a new 71 SS 454 Monte Carlo, about 5 or 6 months after I got my Monte. Not that long after he got it, he bought new Michelin radial tires! The ride and control was so much better, I couldn't wait to get some for my Monte. Now someday when I need to replace the tires I have now, (Almost 8 years old) the hard part will probably be finding the single thin white stripe. I do still have the original spare tire in the trunk!

I like them!

Ron, I always wanted one like that. Way to go Fire Chief!

So cool! Congratulations! Get plenty of copies.

I forgot one, 1956 Murray that I also still own. (My true first car!)

I never drove this but it held the NHRA record E.T. @ 11:37 with an inline Pontiac OHC SIX back in the late 60's. I did help work on it when I was 15 - 18 years old. My Brother in-law and two of his friends owned it. I did get a ride one time WOW! I made this MINI Bike in 1966, that was fun. Check out the long chrome exhaust header!!!

Here are the vehicles I remember: The 73 Cougar was my wife's first car and it was stolen. She is still sad about that. Year / Model Color Date New Date Sold 1937 Dodge Truck Black 25-Feb-37 (My older brothers but I drove it alot. He still owns it) 1963 Triumph TR3-B Red (Our youngest brother and I restored it for our older brother then I sold it to our youngest brother then he sold it back to our older brother) 1971 Monte Carlo Black 14-May-71 (Still own it) 1973 Cougar Red 1-Jun-73 27-Sep-79 STOLEN!!! 1978 Ford T-Bird Brown Met. 1-Oct-78 9-May-86 1984 Escort Black 1-Jan-84 1985 Pontiac Grand Am Red & Gray 9-May-86 29-Sep-93 1994 Ford Taurus Deep Emerald Green 29-Sep-93 14-Apr-03 1998 Ford Taurus Toreador Red Met. 1999 Pontiac Grand Am Red 24-Mar-99 23-Mar-01 2000 Grand Prix GT Black 1-Jun-00 31-May-02 2001 Grand Am 23-Mar-01 23-Mar-03 2002 Grand Prix GT Bright Red 2003 Grand Prix Silver Met. 14-Apr-03 5-Mar-20 2004 Grand Prix GT2 Ivory White 29-Mar-04 27-Mar-06 2005 Pontiac G6 GT Electric Blue Met. 21-Dec-04 18-Oct-06 2007 Impala 3LT White 17-Oct-06 31-Oct-08 2009 Impala LTX Silver Ice Met. 31-Oct-08 14-Oct-11 2012 Buick LaCrosse Quicksilver Met. 14-Oct-11 30-Aug-14 2014 Buick LaCrosse Crystal Red Met. 30-Aug-14 28-Apr-16 2016 Buick LaCrosse White? 28-Apr-16 24-Apr-18 2018 GMC ACADIA White 24-Apr-18 21-Apr-20 2020 Impala White 5-Mar-20 2020 GMC TERRAIN Red quartz tintcoat 21-Apr-20 My least favorite are the two SUV's.........

Took a picture of my 1971 350 w THM350. Looks like 23-3/4" to me.

Nice! You have a great collection, thanks for sharing. My older brother has/had a red 1963 TR3B. My younger brother and I did a low $ restoration on it around 1973. It's still is in the family still red and just totally restored.

That is one fine looking Monte Carlo!!! I really like the size of the pictures too!

My 350 4bbl had a leak at the seal. The dampener had a groove worn into it. I got a sleeve, put the dampener in the freezer and the sleeve in the oven and the sleeve slid right on. new seal, problem solved. I had a similar problem with my right rear axle. I got an offset seal to fix it.