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My love for Monte Carlo's started when my better half pulled this into our driveway. He stumbled upon it while doing a job and said he had to stop and ask about it. It was sitting in the man's garage on cinder blocks. After speaking with the owner he learned the car had been sitting just as it appeared for almost 10 years. He had rebuilt the motor, changed the gears, basically trying to turn it into a street car for the drag strip. But then his health took a nose dive and he hadn't touched it in years. So we made him an offer and he gladly accepted. When he pulled into the driveway I instantly feel head over heals. Now, I have had several green cars in my life, but they always seemed to leave me sitting on the side of the road, or ended up in the junk yard torn all to pieces. So I asked him, what are you going to do with that? He said, i'm gonna fix it up a little and sell it. I gave him the most horrible look and said, that car is NOT leaving this yard. But I want to paint in Pewter Silver. So off to the body shop it went. And when it came home it was Pewter Silver. Just for me. I have learned everything anyone could possibly know about a first gen monte before the car ever left the trailer. the entire interior has also or is in the process of being converted. Thanks to fellow club member Mike Britcha who had everything I needed to convert from bench seat to buckets and changing the color of the dash and door panels. Now the inside is grey & black. It is still however at the shop waiting for conversion of column shift to floor shift and installation of new console. I so can not wait for my baby to come home. It's been 2 years now and I've missed my ride because of all the restoration and changes. So glad she will be coming home very very soon.