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Orgaz-Monte-rectorial? Where your Monte keeps sticking it up your butt.

I would have framed that 2X4 with a plaque that said nothing is free and hung it in the garage

Yep I know the feeling. I think the 2x4 that I took to the head is now being used somewhere else. Lol.

Both of you are hil-ar-i-ous!!!

Did they say this for real? https://youtu.be/cYGYqpjL8bA Fifty years ago they could get away with saying something like this. It sounds innocent enough because a woman is speaking. At 4:22 "Like a woman with the rare combination of beauty and brains..." Did she just say that sexist (funny) remark? Yikes! My wife just slapped ME for what SHE said 🤷‍♂️ Cool film regardleSS! Jeff 1970 SS454 Black

My Monte did me dry.....multiple times. I still walk funny.

Haha! 350 had just 2 barrels for those monkeys!

Fan-tas(pronounced Taz)-a-medorical. Lol

Did your's have a monkey too ?? lol

Let’s catch up. The fender issues have been resolved( see post “fender questions”). So my buddy came down for thanksgiving and wanted to line up the body panels and do all 4 window alignments. Done. Turned out pretty good. While doing the hood we found the drivers hood hinge was bent to crap. New hinges will be ordered. While he was adjusting the windows (we hooked up the battery for power) the coil started smoking and started leaking liquid. I think have have issues. Lol. Disconnected coil and carried on. So last night about 10:00 he left to head back to Michigan. After he left I installed a few more parts and did the front bumper this morning after oil change on my cruze, passenger rear door latch and tailgate latch on my truck ( broke both Wednesday). The car looks complete but I still have a long way to go. A lot of interior work still remains.

While going through stuff in my mom's garage recently, I came across more old magazines (yes, there's more!). Included among them was a Popular Science from January 1969. Seeing that it had a 4-way comparison test of the [then] new '69 Camaro, Cougar, Firebird, and Mustang, I thought it would be fun to look through - as there may be more cool car stuff in it. Many of us know that the Monte Carlo program was given the green light in early 1968, and a name that was being considered for the new model during the development stage was "Concours". Well, while looking through the vintage Popular Science last night, I came across some more historical Monte Carlo information. Right there on page 48 at the top of the "Detroit Report" column by Jim Dunne, the detroit editor, a highlighted yellow block contains the following... "WATCH FOR A NEW CHEVROLET LINE to compete with the Ford Thunderbird for 1970. As yet unnamed, the new car will share GM's G-body shell with Pontiac's Grand Prix. Insiders say one name under consideration is "Chaparral," the same as Jim Hall's Chevrolet-powered racing cars. Front styling will resemble the Chevelle's, but the grille has richer-looking, heavier bars, and a new larger bumper has built-in, round parking lights. Wheelbase will be about 118 inches." This was the first time I'd ever read anywhere another actual name (other than "Concours") that was being considered for our cars! I guess it was ultimately decided that "Concours" was a little too stuffy for a 2-door sport coupe with a semi-fastback roofline and rally car-inspired fender bulges, and that "Chaparral" was too all-out racy. "Monte Carlo" kind of crossed the bridge between the two, and was deemed to be just right. But just think; if the name "Concours" or "Chaparral" had been used instead of "Monte Carlo", this great club would today be known as the FGCC, and the NMCOA would be known as the NCOA. So, just smile and wave when someone mistakenly says, "Nice Chevelle!", as you drive by in your first generation Chevrolet "Chaparral". Dave