TommyP

I took these at the races this summer. The owner decided last minute to bring this newly built Monte to the track when his other car broke. In the first pictures you can see water under the car. When he was driving it up to the staging lanes it over heated because he had a mix up with the switches and didn’t turn on the electric water pump. The problems went from bad to worse when he finally ran down the track. Half way down the track he had a major engine problem and leaked a bunch of oil down the track. You can see the oil dry behind the car on the last picture. Still a real cool Monte.

I think that this picture is pretty cool.

Hey everyone. Thanks for all the nice comments. I‘ve been looking at the pictures of your cars as well and I am very impressed with you Montes. I really like cars that are street drivable and that seems to be what you guys have. I’ll try to answer some of your questions. My hood is a VFN fiberglass brand bolt-on hood. It uses the original hinges (with special springs) and factory latch. Their factory is in Chicago so I just drove over there on a Saturday to pick it up. The company is rather small and located in an industrial park. As soon as you walk in the place you notice the incredible fumes, probably not the nicest place to work. But the hood is of pretty good quality and I think that I paid around $400 for it. To get to even run time trials for Pinks All Out is pretty hard. They took the first 400 entries at 8am on a certain day in December 2008 for the race that was in July 2009. My wife was the one that signed me up. She started trying to get on the site about 5 minutes before the starting time and luckily was able to get connected after several tries. Luckily I say because all 400 spots were full within about 3 minutes. I think that they said at the race that they had thousands of people trying to get in. They then had a special race at Martin earlier in the summer for the last 40 spots. Your car has to run at least in the 12’s to enter. Unfortunately they don’t pick the slower cars very often and Martin was no exception. They ended up picking cars that ran in the 10.50 range for the actual show. It was really cool though and a lot of fun. The episode airs for the first time tonight. Tom

I started with a stock, rust colored with white top and interior car about 20 yrs ago. With a "I don't even want to know" amount of money spent and a lot of work I think that it's starting to come around. The funny thing is I can easily think of a bunch of things that I still want to do to it. It has a 383, 350 trans,and 4.10 gears. I've been to the track twice with it and it's run 12:70s at around 107mph.I also have a NOS kit on the car that I think should bring the ET's down into the 11's. I have tried it on the street and it does put a smile on your face. Below is a picture of me running at the Pinks All Out at my home track, Martin Dragway this summer. You can kind of see Rich doing the hand start in the left corner. I didn't make the 32 car feild but it was a lot of fun anyway. Tom

Thanks for the warm welcome guys!!! I’m excited to finally be able to post. I have an Avatar and a signature picture now (Wha - Hoo) so I’m making some progress even though It’s still going slowly. Thank goodness for photo bucket. Does it work better if I post pictures on here or put links on here to get to the pictures? Just thought I’d ask. Don’t want to start out on the wrong foot. Tom

I hope that you guys have room for another Monte Carlo ( I have a 1971) guy on this fourm. I heard about this site from dbreese when I met him a week or so ago while he was doing the Hot Rod Dragweek. I’ve been reading a lot of your old posts and finally got registered to post today. The posts that I’ve read so far don’t include some of the mean spirted responses that you get on some boards. I’ll have to post some pictures of my car when I figure out how to. Tom