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I did prime my headliner tack strips though. Fenders,bumper filler,headlight bezels and taillight extensions go to the body shop Friday. Then probably two weeks he gets the doors , hood and deck lid and another two weeks the body goes in. One of my customers is right next door to his shop so when everything is painted I will trailer up my chassis ( should have engine in it) and we’re going to roll the body over there and put it on the lift, take off the rotisserie and mount to the body and take it back over to the body shop and he’s going to mount all the other panels and I will pick up a complete looking car. He’s thinking I’ll have it in my garage by beginning of November. I am not getting my hopes up. Lol. Ok that’s all I got.

Sendo, I also went with the Moog 6330 when I refreshed the front suspension of a '70 SS I used to own. There is a good reason that is a popular replacement spring for first gen Montes and that is it has a pre-load of 1700 pounds which is very close to the two heaviest springs (out of 10 available) used in the '70 Monte Carlo assembly. The 6330 will work well for big block and/or heavily optioned first gens with stock-like front end height and ride characteristics. For front end height, the most important spring characteristic is its preload value which is simply its Free Height less the 11.7" Working Height (std for all first gens) times its Spring Rate. For the 6330 that is (17.5" - 11.7") x 293 lbs/in = 1700 lbs of preload. The preload for the heaviest stock spring (code GD) is 1780 lbs and the second heaviest (GQ) is 1760 lbs. For the '71 Monte the highest preload was for spring AK at 1830 lbs. The maximum spring rate for both years was 275 lbs/in. Now, compare the Moog 6330 to the other "Big Block" spring from Speedway Motors (in your link above) and you will see it has a preload of 2060 lbs (18" - 11.7") x 327 lbs/in = 2060 lbs). That spring will cause the front end to sit a bit higher because you will have 360 lbs of additional preload on both front wheels. It will also have a bit firmer ride because the spring rate is 34 lbs/in greater (327 - 293 = 34). Unless you want to raise the front end and/or have a firmer ride, the 6330 may be a better choice. JMO. BTW, if you have a Build Sheet for your Monte, the original factory spring code will be shown in one of the boxes (it is Box 13 on a '70 Build Sheet). You can look that code up in the chart below and know the specs for the spring originally installed in your car. Note that the preload figure for each spring is given in the far right hand column of that table. Good luck with your new spring choice.

Diamond backs with redlines. Cooper radial tread on front,Motto drag facials on rear. I don't like them, Love'm !!

Jim, I will definitely give it some serious thought although my Monte is more of a street toy than a highway cruiser . The Eastern and Western meets are always out of reach for me but I did attend a mini-meet in Kissimmee in 2011, I believe. We usually don't leave FL for MN until mid-April so I hope to be around then. Please don't count on me for sure, but I'll see if I can make it work somehow and let you know.

it's been over 18,000 miles and 14 years already since I got a set of COOPER tires with the thin WSW. I didn't like the huge letters that were on the tires and called to talk to Diamond back where they took a set of Cooper's, ground off all the huge letters and shipped them to me for less than I was going to pay a local store for the same tire (with the huge letters). Last time I looked, Cooper didn't sell these anymore.

No indication of holes in fender well where load leveler would’ve been mounted. False-flagging on the 450HP air cleaner decal also (unless my eyes are playing tricks on me). Tribute or Clone-aroni... still a great looking Monte.

Maybe it's a full sized car I'm thinking about. One of the last jobs I did was front coils on a camaro, jack stand let loose car almost fell on me that's when I said that's enough of this. I changed careers. To many close calls.

I don't know about other A bodies, but there is no spring insulator for the front spring shown in the '70 Monte Carlo Factory Assembly Manual. I have rebuilt the front suspension of two '70s and neither had any insulators. The top of the front coil must rest firmly against the bottom of the frame and be correctly positioned over the locator tab that protrudes down from the frame. The bottom of the front coil must be correctly indexed so the end of the spring is seated at/over one of the two holes in the lower A arm, leaving the other hole completely open for drainage. Both of those are shown and called out in the Assembly Manual.

Great, enjoy the summer

Wasn't there a front top spring insulator, I seem to remember taping them to top of the front springs when replacing them. Maybe was something other than a body's but I seem to remember them on a body's too. It's been a while since I've done any.

No front spring insulator from the factory that I have found.

I am willing to bet that is a fiber glass evercoat product. You mix a hardener with very thin bondo or thick primer called Slick Sand and is sprayed on like primer. It gets harder than a rock and is very hard to sand and is white or at least a vey light tan.

I think it looks good. I just got the nos trim for under the passenger headlight in today. And the rocker trim for the passenger side. That was tough to find.That nos grill hurt my portfolio a lot also.

Just found it Roger… It’s the Monte Carlo‘s little brother, the Monza...lol

I went with the moog 6330

Gives the car a classy look

I love them! They look real sweet and I love the stance of your monte. rob

We were told that only tinted glass was available due to the fact that the movie industry had purchased all of the correctly stamped clear glass .