[Blue 1972 350-4bbl]

On 9/29/2021 at 6:25 AM, Crom Cruach said:

Thanks guys, very excited to get her shipped over to Ireland and start driving and tidying her up

I like your priorities Paul.... nice "mo'ah"

[Returning Monte person]

On 9/24/2021 at 9:50 PM, Jared Richey said:

That was almost 20 years ago.  I was there just didn't realize a meeting was taking place. I'll never forget that crash 

I too remember that fateful day, first people were sighing, then they were cheering then they were sighing again, then cheering then finally silence.... To me, watching the escapades of the emergency teams was like a scene from an Abbot & Costello movie, but in real life... Sad interruption to an otherwise perfect weekend. I still have some snippets of film about it somewhere, but I'm not gonna look for it.

[Monte Coming Out Of Storage]

Nice... We'll be almost neighbours Carl and my luthier man lives in Port St. Lucie so our paths may even cross

[Returning Monte person]

29 minutes ago, 72 Monte Carlo said:

Welcome back!

Thanks

 

[Speedometer cable]

On 8/17/2021 at 9:13 PM, John S said:

Pull the speedometer cable out and spin The cable at the transmission end by hand or slowly in a variable speed drill. See if the end of the cable that goes into the speedometer if it rotates true or if it wobbles. Mine wobbled after tweaking the cable a little bit it started to spin true and when I installed it no more speedometer bouncing.

John S

Anti-clockwise with the drill, so I read

 

[Returning Monte person]

16 hours ago, Rob Peters said:

Yeah, I think all of us used to do that.  I know it is not the same thing but since Capri lost her beloved SS due to a open carb fire on the car parked next to hers in their garage I don't think I will ever run mine without the proper installation of the top cover.  Maybe I am too cautious but I would hate to lose mine because of how cool it "sounds".

rob

Rob

That will be the first thing I do is to flip the lid when I get it, then fit a K&N filter, the present owner is also an advocate for 'looking like factory' but in this instant I think it just looks plain ugly

[Returning Monte person]

Yea, seems like every minute takes an hour and every hour takes a day and every day takes a week  etc ......

[Returning Monte person]

1 minute ago, Dtret said:

By the way that’s not me, (Dennis on the clock)I’m way to stupid to write up something like that. Lol. 

ha, you're off the hook Dennis, I found it's MCfan but I can't access his photobucket link even tho I have created some kinda temp account there

[Returning Monte person]

20 minutes ago, FrankOC said:

Right place, right time, congratulations on the purchase.

Yup, Jim the current owner thought at first I was a spammer but he later told me that something was compelling him to ring back my number, it's killing me having to wait till October 29th

[Returning Monte person]

1 hour ago, 1970mcss said:

Very nice, you can clean the clock and get it running again. Dennis has a nice write up on the step by step. I have rebuilt two of them. They don't keep great time but that's ok. Good luck with the car.

I worked the clock out my old Monte, got it to work, loved the mechanics of it put it back into the dash and it worked for a while then stopped, started, stopped etc etc........ I'd like to see Dennis's write up, will search for it. Thanks Paul.

[Returning Monte person]

3 hours ago, Dtret said:

Way cool. You gotta bring her home. 

I will be, fear ye not Dennis.

 

[Returning Monte person]

Thank you everybody for the warm welcome, I may already know some of yooz but alas I wouldn't remember who. I do have a couple more pics that Jim, the current owner, sent me. The basic history of the car is that it was bought by Jim some months after he bought mine, he said it was owned by 'their Mother' who only drove it to church and in 50 years has accumulated just 83 thousand+ miles, the A/C was changed out for 134, duel exhausts were put on, 2 barrel carb was switched out for a 4 barrel, the oil pump has been changed so has the water pump, valve seals were replaced, the AM radio has been switched for a retro radio with new stereo speakers in dash, the original skirts have been preserved plus the original wheels with white line tyre and 'flying saucer' hub caps (of which I am bringing home with me) Jim even has the original front and rear floor mats, the window sticker too. Though what brought a tear to my eye is when I was told that Jim had replaced the rear shelf speaker with one of my original Monte shelf speakers, so I shall be getting a piece of my original Monte back *choke*.  I asked him if the clock works and true to Monte tradition, it doesn't  <g>. Oh it has the original vinyl roof and the trunk mat looks like new apparently.

I've been told the speedo doesn't work after it was taken in because it was whining, it did for a while then ceased after repair, me thinks they may have lubed the inner cable wrong.

Anyway.... Thanks again for the warm fuzzy 

[Returning Monte person]

Thanks

 

[Returning Monte person]

Hello.

Just to reintroduce myself, I am Jon and I live in Florida, previous FGMCC member and attendee of 2002 Commerce GA event (I still have the trophy by the way

In about 6 weeks or so I shall once again be the proud owner of a 1972 Monte Carlo, as pictured. Funny part of this story is that about I sold my Monte (Pewter Silver with white vinyl roof, as seen in a couple of 2002 Commerce pics) to a fella in NC, 11 years later I ring him up and ask him if by any chance he might still have it.... No he says but I do have a Monte that I think you would like so we agree on a price and I tell him I can't pay him till end of October (IRA matures) and he says fine, I will hold it for you. He means it too, he says after the way I felt after I parted with my Monte he knows that his is going to a good home and will be cherished accordingly, which is true. He turns out to not be such a young fella and is down sizing, the Monte was not even up for sale but turns out my planets all aligned and wishes do come true.