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Hard Luck Jim & Linda Member Recognition Award to Ron Tevis for his help on making the 2023 Meet a success! Thank you Ron! 😊 Helped me big time Ronnie Bryan Longest Distance Driven 745 miles Paul Adams from Bossier City LA Randy Czankner Best Non Restores 1971 Best Paint John Engle 1971 350 factory 4 speed Robyn Lance Best Engine Donny Vestal 1970 with a 402 big block Best Interior Ron Tevis 1971 SS 454 Best Street Richard and Joyce Dixon 1972 George Lines Best Modified Jim & Linda Seyboldt 1972 Best Stock Gary Vanetter 1972 original owner! Members Choice Steve Redmyer 1970 Convertible (17 years ago Winfred Owens won the same award at his first meet with the same car, same weekend) it was also Steve's first Meet! Meet Directors Choice Dan Janes 1970 SS 454. Founders Award chosen by the officers. Jared Richey. Thank you so much!

Hope everyone stays safe, just take a moment to think of those that made the ultimate sacrifice so we could all be with our families and friends as well as playing with cars

Great show only two Monte’s of any kind. A black 70, the owner is on the Facebook page and told him he needs to get on this site and become a member. I need to put my stalking papers back in my trunk again. We removed everything from the trunk late year and have only been to 2 or 3 shows since and with the car not running well along with wet weekends I think we have it straightened out. I need to work on m photo posting to get them in the desired configuration, every time I try to turn the iPad they keep turning sideways again

Goodnight on the 24th Annual First Generation Monte Carlo Club Eastern Meet! Thank you all for coming and have a safe trip home. Thanks to Ron Tevis for helping me coordinate this Meet and making it a Smash 🙌 Success! It thrills me to make sure everyone has a good time! Goodnight from Somerset KY!

This was an accident but could not keep myself from posting dang fingers disobeyed me again 😇

Best Wheels Kevin Merritt

Awesome job guys. Great pictures and some well deserved awards.

What’s this 8 track thing your talking about??

Haven't been in my 40s in 20 + years I do still have an 8 track tape of the animals but no way to play it any more. But I do still listen to the 60s and 70s mostly. Have a cd player in the Monte and beach Boys cd in there now.

Indy 500. Under red flag now. Could be interesting finish with the top three drivers needing fuel to finish. By the time this loaded we’re under second red flag

Big Thanks to ALL involved to make this meet as Great as it was!!! And a extra big Thanks for Ron doing it while still healing!!! Nice job guys!!!

Yep just got inside after midnight lol

2023 Founders Awards chosen by the officers. Kevin Wiles and Jared Richey

Joe hard at work on his Horn. 😁

I went to a local show yesterday (as a spectator) and 0 Monte's , had my club business cards in my pocket just in case. Did get to chat with some of my blue oval bretheren 🤣

Yep!… probably be tomorrow. Yep tomorrow. 🍹 🍺 🥤

Bless your little heart

I'm a tad past my mid 40's 🤣 and don't have 8-tracks anymore ...But I do have a stereo in the garage. I still have most of my old vinyl tho, converted my old CD's to MP3's when my Sony juke box gave up the ghost. As I posted in another thread the other day, was listening to the Hollies "The air that I breath" for a walk down memory lane 😀

The First Generation Monte Carlo was a Hugh attraction for spectators . The Street is lined with people looking and asking questions, more than any other street or model of car I saw ..

I wonder how many other guys in their mid-40s are washing a 50 year old car listening to Cat Stevens on 8-track today? 🤔

Congratulations to all of the Award Winners, and a big round of applause for Ron and Jared for running the Eastern Meet. Hoping everyone has a safe and uneventful trip home.

Great job Jared and Ron congratulations to all. Wished I could have been there with you all.

Larry great pic of Dennis!!!!! He deserves those dancing bananas!!! lol

No proof if there are no pictures. Lol.

Any acknowledgment is good right? Lol. At first I thought you may be a candidate for the knucklehead award. Lol. Nice. Thanks for thinking of me.

We should be seeing a listing of the club award winners soon.....unless our members, knowing that this is their last night together at bench racing are too busy mixing adult beverages. rob

Thanks to all who posted pic's and videos 👍 Looks like a huge success !

Ron, way to go, working with them to arrange recognition for our club!!! rob

FGMCC Eastern Meet 2023 . Classic First generation monties as far as the eye can see.! You can see other antique cars entering in the last picture, been coming in for 30 minutes now will go on another hour!. Fantastic Meet !

Hello from the gang at the 2023 Eastern Meet in Somerset Ky!👋🏻 We apologize for not everyone being in this group photo, but there were fresh baked cookies and milk 🥛 in the hotel lobby and they we’re getting sleepy!😂🤣

From Jim

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Man do I know that feeling !!!

There was no such thing when I was growing up, now I’m probably not going to attempt that .;)

Today's progress. Sanded down the rollbar and painted after moving the girls around in the sunlight. Lol.

Meet New FGMCC Member Mark Butler from Ky ..

FGMCC at Cumberland lake Ky . 2023 Eastern Meet..

The count continues to grow !. 18 cars 25 members.. were off to another big day ! 🌞

Beautiful area and beautiful day here in KY. Missing out not being here

The power stop ones are what I used on my Monte, I used detroit axel on the truck. Both were very good quality.

James, you can get the instrument cluster out to upgrade, repair or replace the clock/gauges without completely removing the dash (fortunately). But you do have to loosen and pull it toward you enough to remove the cluster from the dash housing. That is one of the things covered in the photo journal I made when I converted my idiot light instrument cluster to a stock full gauge cluster. Here's the link: Full Gauge Cluster Upgrade This is a great time to convert to LEDs if you are so inclined. That is also covered in the above photo journal. If you go to the full gauge cluster, you get to keep your clock. If it is not working, it may be possible to repair it while you have the dash apart. I found three separate problems with my non-working clock but I was able to fix all of them and the clock is still running fine after three years. Here's a link to a photo journal on repairing the dash clock: Repairing a Dash Clock Good luck.

http://www.firstgenmc.com/forums/index.php?/topic/2513-removing-dash-tips/ Some good tips in here! Good luck, take your time!

Someone here has that procedure written down very nicely. I have removed my 71 entire dash 3 times over the years but never just "leaned" it back to remove the cluster. Be careful, the plastic is brittle. I have a shifter on the column so the little wire that makes the PRND12 move is of high priority. Looks like you have a floor shifter so that may not be an issue. Here are some pictures that may help. I have a 71 with factory gauges, NO A/C, Stereo two speaker dash pad. Bruce