Canuck

Welcome Brant! This is a great group here. Your Monte looks great!

Reassembled! Rebuilt engine and transmission. Some tidying up in the engine bay.

5 months!

There was a member who removed the black Chevrolet emblem and put crosshairs in the chrome ring on his 71 SS. 😁

Welcome! I hope to see you at a future meet. 🙂

Sad to hear. 😢

There’s a 5 year member badge on the grille the engine bay photo.

Welcome! 🙂

I look forward to seeing the progress. I ordered my interior stuff from a few different vendors depending on the product I needed. You still have time to get it ready for the Western Meet in September. 😁

There’s several little plugs in a small block. One decided to leak. The builder said out of the hundreds of small blocks he has rebuilt this is only the second plug he has had leak. I wasn’t too critical. Stuff happens. He came over and did all the work to reinstall a plug and seal it up.

Did some touch ups today. The rebuilt engine had an oil leak that could only be addressed by removing the head. A few weeks ago my engine builder came by to pull the head/intake and fix the plug that was causing the leak. I finally got around to doing the paint touch ups today.

Actually lost money because they paid $61,600 with the buyer commission and sold it for $57k.

Sold for $57,000 plus commission. Instead of $62,700 they could have had my 71 SS for $55k. 😁

I got tires mounted today and tried them on the 71. They look good.

🎶 “On the cover of the O P G” 🎶

Agreed. I’ve used those auveco clips too. I would not use the factory style metal ones again.

There was certainly some attention to detail needed from what I saw.

77 days

It is optioned really well. Not sure if they seller will make any money though but would likely sell in the same range. Time will tell.

$60k is in the ballpark. There was a nice red 70 SS454 that sold recently at auction for around $65k. I have my 71 SS454 for sale also in that same price range.

Very nice!

OK, the seat belt light wasn't required yet so it makes sense yours doesn't have it. That woodgrain insert is certainly a unique conversation piece you have.

Note that the seat belt light was not required until January 1972 so there are many 72s without the light. My low mile unrestored 1972 I just sold was built in December 1971 and did not have the seat belt light. Yours appears to be stamped for the seat belt light but was not cut out. Maybe a few were made that way during the transition. I would imagine it is pretty rare like that. What month was the car built?