Opinions please.

[Tonka Man]

I wish I had pictures of this story.  When I bought my first Monte in high school back in 1987, it was a basket case.  The previous owner was another teenage kid who just hot rodded the snot out of every thing he owned.  I paid $300 for the car.  It would hardly run and it had difficulty stopping without locking up.  I pulled the front tires off and the front rotors were literally down to ribs between the braking surfaces!  There was no surface at all on either side!  Of course the "pads" were just the metal backing with the rivets.  I don't know how he drove that without causing an accident!

The other part of that memory is that I replaced the front disks and brakes in a friend's unheated and uninsulated garage in the middle of January at 30 below (Montana)!  Oh what you can tackle when you are 17 years old and need some wheels!

[Whons]

I have a story similar to that. When I was 19 I bought a 69 Impala from a guy who let the front drum brakes go metal to metal. I paid $600 for the car. there was no pad material left and had to replace the drums as well. The metal dust was baked onto the backing plate, had to chisel it off. I drove that car for over 3 years.

[Scott S.]

On 8/8/2025 at 5:20 PM, Tonka Man said:

I wish I had pictures of this story.  When I bought my first Monte in high school back in 1987, it was a basket case.  The previous owner was another teenage kid who just hot rodded the snot out of every thing he owned.  I paid $300 for the car.  It would hardly run and it had difficulty stopping without locking up.  I pulled the front tires off and the front rotors were literally down to ribs between the braking surfaces!  There was no surface at all on either side!  Of course the "pads" were just the metal backing with the rivets.  I don't know how he drove that without causing an accident!

The other part of that memory is that I replaced the front disks and brakes in a friend's unheated and uninsulated garage in the middle of January at 30 below (Montana)!  Oh what you can tackle when you are 17 years old and need some wheels!

Ever swapped the starter in an '81 Pontiac Laurentien in a parking lot in December in Edmonton, Ab. ??? 

😓

[cny first gen 71]

My brother and I put the 4 speed trans back in my 65 gto on Christmas day one year in the snow. We also pulled the 409 out of his 64 impala ss in the yard, it came out the bottom 😳  luckily neither of us got hurt. The crazy stuff we used to do eh.