Huggee

An update of what I’ve been up to for the last month. A lot of cleaning, painting, powder coating and assembly. Body is back on the chassis.

Getting some work done during our lockdowns

Found 3 build sheets. Back of rear seat. Bottom of rear seat. Top of gas tank.

Got the steering and suspension done last weekend. This weekend I’m taking a look at the interior. Just pulled the front carpet to look at the driver’s floor. I can’t believe how good this car is!!!

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Got customer cars out of the shop so I could get to my '71. This weekend I replaced the idler arm, pitman arm, front coil springs, front lower control arms, front shocks, front upper control arm bushings, rear coils and did an alignment. Found a set of 15X8 rally wheels earlier in the week ($150 for all 4 with centres and rings) so I put 2 on the rear to see how it looked. The front end came up 3 inches and the rear came up 2 1/2 with the new Moog coils. Hope to get to the rear control arms and bushings soon. 33242A6D-EA6E-4B82-9E1A-FA7FB11A772B.heic

Thanks Ronald. I ordered from The Parts Place yesterday and according to UPS they should arrive to my shop here in Canada tomorrow afternoon.

MC1of80 and 1970mcss, thanks for the quick response. I will now get some sent!

I'm Not able to locate any from my normal suppliers.

Here's my dilemma. Pulled the Control arms out of my newly acquired '71 MC today to replace the whipped out bushings And they are so worn that the control arms are cracked. Any suggestions on where to get good tubular or factory ones? Thanks.

The car just arrived at my shop and I found the build sheet. Here's a pic of it and the body plate.

Only a few pics for now. Will submit more when It is more mobile. Front brakes are seized on but everything else seems to work. It was brought up from Tucson 10 years ago and put in the back corner of a barn until yesterday.

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Here's a pic

Looking forward to interacting with everyone here. Just purchased my first Monte. It is a true barn find 1971 originally from Arizona. It is pretty basic but rust free and has A/C.