Ijust HAD to pull my baby Roxanne out and take her for a ride Sunday. The weather was decent, the roads were dry and salt free, since it hadn't snowed in about 2 weeks, and it just kills me to see that nice car all covered up with no place to go....

2 things bothered me about my nice, leisurely(LOL), Sunday drive:

#1 - Sunday drivers - WTF - I guess some things never change, LOL. I guess all those other folks out there don't realize that Roxanne and I like to go fast, and we really don't appreciate left lane bandits and people that cut us off!!!

#2 - this one REALLY bothers me, during my Sunday drive of about 50 minutes, which included I-90,neither my wife or I saw even 1, swear to God, not 1, other Monte Carlo of any year on the roads. That was a real bummer, let me tell you.It may sound strange, but I always wave at other Monte Carlo drivers, because there are so few where I live.

How about everyone else, do you normally see other Monte's in your daily or weekend jaunts? On a regular basis I only see 2 or 3 other Monte's where I live, one 98 or 99 Z34, and 1 2003 LS, how about you?

 

theres a few more montes around here... but i have no idea who owns them, i just see them. one i even supercharged, so i know better than to mess with him. actually ,there is an LS taht was once owned by the manager of Auto Zone, he just traded for an LT Monte, 07 model. yeah, there aroudn... but i rarelly see them while driving my monte.

 

i have 5-6 80's montes that live within a few blocks of me, 1 mile at most...

 

no shortage of montes in iowa. think it depends on where ya live though, seems like i heard that the last year or few years of the monte, california was buying more vettes than montes.

 

There's a whole 11 of them around here, but i have the only silver one[8D], no supercharged ones though

 

i see more in teh big cities...

 

Monte Carlo's are HUGE in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Michigan.

On my way to work, each day, I must see at least 10 of the 00-05's and at least 3-5 of the 06's and 07's.

Even the new V8 SS's don't bother me. Cause they know they'd be crushed.

I raced a red one with black stripes the other day (SS 07). Close on highend, but with the blower, I had him off the line. =)

 

How much HP are you running now?

 

at the crank? around 305 according to ZZP Dyno

WHP? about 239.

 

And unless you have done any mods to your car, I assure you I would have you off the line. I'm running 13.9

Stock SS, even with a good driver? 14.6.

=)