Thought you guys might like to see my g/f's '81 SC Monte.

We call the car "Monte"
(her car is "Monte, my '86 LS is "Carlo")

The car more or less sets in the garage covered up now days. I didn't want it getting rusted out from the Ohio winters so we got her another car to drive about 5 years ago. Last summer when the garage got a new roof the cars had to come out so no damage from falling building materials was done. That's when I snapped a few pics of Monte and my 6th '57.






PS. The car is a 229 V6, 2 barrel carb, with 350 turbo transmission (I believe). She hates the 6 cylinder cause the car she had before was a '76 & '77 Olds Cutlasses with 350, 4 barrel carb engines she could burn the back tires any time she felt like it. The 229 V6 won't.

 

What happened to the passenger side fender? Looks like someone side swiped ya.

Did you ever get that fixed?

 

i think personally tha tyou have at least one to many 57 chevyies ther and need to send on ehere for safe keeping and driving of it on nice sunny days

 

Looks like someone side swiped ya.

You like that?
No one here to blame but my g/f Deb. She was driving to her part-time job a few years ago. She didn't get half way down the block and she sees this kid standing in the street. AS she approaches the kid, he won't get out of the street. She said he raised his arm like he intended on throwing something which caught her eye. And she side swipes a parked van. All she touched was one of those running boards you see on vans that attach at the wheel wells and along the rocker box.

I was at work and she calls up crying her head off. She got scared after this happened and drove off. Now she's afraid someone called the cops on her which would be considered a hit & run.

I told her to leave work right now and drive home. I left work too and when she got home we walked down the block looking for the owner of this van? I knocked on at least 5 front doors trying to find out who owned this van she hit? We did locate the owner and I told him what ever kind of restitution he wanted was fine with me. If he wanted to call the cops and make out a report then we'd call the cops. He must have had some kind of violation on the van or his driver's license cause he wanted no part of the calling the cops. He said to forget the white line she left on his red van, so I didn't complain. I did try to find out if this kid who started all this was the van's owners kid but Deb said it was someone different.

I left the damaged front fender to remind her, "Watch where you're going when you're behind the wheel!!!!"

I don't care if godzilla is standing in the street. Don't hit the van parked beside you.

I will repair the damage when she can learn to take care of something.


Mickey,
you think 6 of them is too many?

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Thanks for the support Space. My father would disagree with you about it being Chevy Heaven.

The '81 Monte has always been a decent car. I did replace the entire dash cause the PO ruined the original from using ArmourAll on it. It had large cracks in it and was a nice shade of brown. (the car has red interior)

You couldn't put your finger on it without causing more damage. And the usual stuff that wears out from being used like brake pads and tires.

It's one of the best uses of $500 I've ever spent.

 

RJ, your story about the armorall destroying the dash reminded me of when my dad owned a '79 Chevy Impala. He was one of those who fell for ArmorAll's B.S. Like millions of other car nuts did when it came out. His dash did the same thing. When it started to crack, he thought it was because he wasn't using enough. When it finally cracked right in half, he learned his lesson and tried to glue it back together with epoxy glue. But it looked like complete crud. Which completely broke his heart, because he always worked hard to maintain his cars in showroom condition. He (and I) learned to NEVER EVER EVER NEVER USE ARMOR ALL on anything you care about.

 

 

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