Rob Peters

Kevin.... Is that project going to be ready for Indy... That would be a great place to have its comming out party. Rob

Craig, Wow, I only thought you wanted that old spare tire I gave you to use as a spare, I didn't realize you were going to use it to drive on. I didn't know if it was safe to use to drive on after all those years. I know my trunk had never leaked but I thought after all those years the rubber would have dryrotted. I am glad you were able to use it to drive on. They really look really look great. Rob

In truth, when the individual plant stopped using the Full Halo depended upon when they ran out of the trim pieces and started tooling up for the new 71 models. I feel to say that the full halo roof was used on the early 70's is kind of misleading. The two tone painted cars used the vinyl roof trim to separate the colors. My car is a late 70 Monte with the two tone paint and it has the full halo trim. It was built in late June or early July in the Baltimore Plant. I would not consider a car built in late June to be an early built 70. Rob

I don't know much about the Console shifters but in the column shifters the shifter can not be moved out of the park position unless the key is out of the lock position. Since this was a safety feature I would have to assume that this would be true for the console shifter. I would assume there would be some type of cable or electric solenoid lock on the shifter but my bet would be with a cable type lock. Again, I don't know this for sure and I am just guessing but it seems logical. Rob

I got my Wheel Well Mouldings and Rocker Moulding from Jim at Muscle Cars Only. www.musclecarsonly.com Jime is great to work with and his prices are usually a little lower than other sellers on most everything he carries. Rob

Metz, Under the carpet may be a good place to look. I had a guy repair the welting on my seat drivers seet back and when he took the cover off of the seat he found a build sheet there. I think the first thing you should look at is the the Vin Number. If it has an "F" in the Vin it means it was built in Flint Mich. To the best of my knowledge nobody has ever found a build sheet in a Flint built car. If it is a Flint built car there is no sense in tearing the car apart to look for the build sheet. Rob

Here is another one of me. Here is one of Patsy and I: Rob

Here I am.... Second from the right. This is taken from my best side. Rob

I think you guys are talking about a copywrite... not a Patent. Rob

Andy, Many people install the Chevelle metal inner fender wells. If it isn't a show car you can do as you wish. The main difference between the Chevelle and the Monte is the metal extensions you mentioned. The other difference will be the holes are slightly different and you may have to drill a couple of the holes or slightly enlarge the ones in the new inner fenders. This is no matter if you get the plastic or the metal. On the plastic ones I got for my Monte I had to trim some of the plastic off of the new inner fender wells because it stuck out past the moulding on th fender. Rob

Are you sure it isn't the other way around. I would think the white one is the one without the moulding. Mine is held on with two small screws. The holes in the white one are way too large for the screws to screw into. The dark one is the proper size holes for the screws that hold the moulding. The dark one also shows an indentation in the hold where it appears the screws would thread into. I will be replacing my bumper this winter and will take a closer look at mine at that time. I have had mine off a couple times and would swear my fender extensions that have the moulding have the smaller holes. Rob

I don't think it was a special code. It was just part of the trim, like a hood spear or sail panel emblems. Rob

Bob, Welcome to the First Generation Monte Carlo Club website. The chrome piece you mention was a 1970 Monte item only and not on the 71 and 72. In the above reply from Tony he states it was an early 70 model feature. Tony is partially correct. It depended on what plant the car was produced in, when they stopped installing these chromed pot metal parts were installed. My car was built in the Baltimore plant and was built in June and they were installed on my car. I did a study on this awhile back and heard from numerous members and that is what was determined from the people who responded. Rob

I am not positive but judging by how they did some things and since you don't have a hyphen between the 02 and the 09 I suspect the build date may have been September 3rd and maybe the 02 indicates the shift on that date. Again, I am guessing on this. Look on the drivers door. They originally placed a blue sticker with the build date and vin number on the drivers door near the latch. Rob

Here is a suggestion on putting the pan back up. I usually don't use any gasket compound when installng a pan tranny pan gasket. Here is a suggestion on how to keep the gasket in place when installing the pan. The holes in most of the pan gaskets I have seen are slightly smaller than the bolts. If the one you get is the same, simply place the gasket onto the top of the pan and thread many of the bolts through the pan and up through the gasket. If the holes in your gasket are like most of them, this will not only hold the gasket in place but it will also hold the bolts for easy starting into the bottom of the tranny. Get all of the bolts started into the holes and then snug them all up and then finally torque them to the proper torque. Rob

When at the Eastern Meet this year we had to drop Kevin's TH350 pan and change the filter. The filter and gasket come as a kit. Kevin bought a drain pan with a pour spout on it and after we put the pan back up we put two or three quarts of new fluid into his tranny and poured the old into the empty quart bottles. Every time we put in another quart into the tranny we poured the old fluid into that quart bottle. I think at the end we had put in about 5 quarts but Kevin could answer that better. As far as only 2 1/2 quarts going in, I can't answer why that would be. Rob

I am wondering now if you didn't jump a tooth on the timing chain and that was the noise you heard. If the timing if off by one tooth it will cause idiling problems and starting problems.

Darrell, First off I would like to welcome you to the First Generation Monte Carlo Club website. We have a great family here and I am sure one of our members with a 71 Monte will be able to assist you with your question. I am not positive but I think the finish is a simi-gloss but if you look in the technical section of the site at the panel it looks more of a gloss black. Here is the link: http://www.firstgenmc.com/tech/ss454.shtml I think someone with a 71 SS will answer within a day or two so be patient. Once you have taken a test drive here on the website we hope you will consider becoming a club member and reaping all the benefits. Rob

hot72, Welcome to the FGMCC website. We hope you will consider joining the club. We are having our National Eastern Meet over Memorial Day weekend in Bristol Tennessee... you should consider coming up to the event at Bristol race track to meet a few of the members. I'm not sure if they have any parts vendors but if they do it may give you a chance to find some of the treasured items you think you may need. Rob

Matt, Jim is correct. I was not aware it was an emissions thing, I was told by the Chevy Dealer that it was a performance thing once the car entered third gear on the automatic transmission. It is all controlled by a pressure switch on the front passenger side of the transmission. I was told by the tranny guy at my local dealer that once the car enters high (3rd gear) the pressure switch on the tranny senses the pressure change and this causes the solenoid mounted on the intake manifold to open providing vacuum to the distributor spark control to advance the spark slightly for better performance in high gear. The pressure switch on the tranny was recently discussed here on the boards because mine started leaking recently and was leaving a nice trail of tranny fluid everywhere I went. Rob

From what we know at this point, the Cruise Control option could not be ordered along with the SS Option on the first gen Monte. The reason is as you stated, they both mounted in the same place. That is not to say that a dealer wouldn't be tempted install one at the dealer location after they got it from the factory. After all, the dealers (salesmen) wanted to turn a buck and installing dealer installed options was one way they could bring in that extra cash. Rob

Ken to the best of my knowledge it couldn't be ordered from the factory with the cruise control but we have heard of instances where dealers installed it if the customer wanted it. The cruise from the factory mounts in areas where the load leveling system mounts so it wasn't supposed to be able to be ordered from the factory. Rob

Bus.... Do you have an owners manual. I am not sure but I think I have seen a picture of the button in my owners manual so if you look there it may tell you. Regarding where the wiring hooks up, I am not sure but I have a copy of the wiring diagrams I could maybe copy and mail to you. My diagrams are for the 70 Monte and I doubt they changed the connection points but you never know from one year to another. Rob

Tom, The wide trim you mention was an option but I thought if the option was ordered from the factory the narrow chrome on the window felts was not also put on but I don't know that for sure. Regarding the passenger side mirror, to the best of my knowlege it was not an option but I don't want to state that as a for sure. I have one of the GM Restoration packages up in the garage with my car and will have to check the option listings to know for sure. Rob