When was the last time you saw 1 of these w/factory 4-speed?

[groucho]

I scored this baby yesterday!

350 V-8
4 speed
tilt
pwr windows
rear defog
remote trunk
AC
F-41 suspension
Factory tach and gauges

[Brian Lohnes]

Score! Never seen one with a stick! Only seen automatics in that era. Cool! Small block? You can live in the engine bay with it.

[Schtauffer]

Once and I think it wasn't factory. They made what, like 1500 of them or so??

Awesome score Groucho!

[groucho]

Score! Never seen one with a stick! Only seen automatics in that era. Cool! Small block? You can live in the engine bay with it.

yes, SB

[fast Ed]

Very cool with the 3 pedals!!


cheers
Ed

[groucho]

Once and I think it wasn't factory. They made what, like 1500 of them or so??

Awesome score Groucho!

The guy that sold it to me said 800+ 4 speeds out of way over 120.000 made

[oletrux4evr]

Never......That's a great score!

[Darren N.]

I've never seen a 4-speed Monte in person.

I was restoring a '71 for a quite a while. Needless to say, I'm totally digging this triple black beauty.

What's the plan for this one?

[oldsman496]

Yeah.... Watcha gonna do with it? beautiful car. a great car to cruise in. nice score.

[Beagle]

Just so I can sound like you - I hope to god you change those wheels back to what god intended...

then I will love it.

[Deaf Bob]

Dangggg big ishy car... 4 on the freaking floor and aint a 700r4....
Must be nice to be you...
Yeah..I'm jealoussss!

[Monk]

Great score........given all those options, I'm bettin all those
boxes were checked off when ordered at dealer.
Do you know history of ownership?

Full gauge package is cool.

Gonna look for a build sheet?

[38P]

Reminds me of Doug Marion's old "EconoPerformer" ('80s Super Chevy and "Pop Rod" project car). Except his wasn't a four-speed.

Sometimes I wonder if the Bangshifting world is finally ready to recognize John Delorean's two luxury performance cars (Gen I Monte Carlo and its slightly bigger brother . . . the '69-'70 Grand Prix) as true muscle cars. Probably not.

I've always regretted that my 428-powered '69 SJ is a boring TH-400 car instead of a rare four-speed. And that it has that awful vinyl top.


And after holding onto it for over thirty years, it's still probably not worth enough to repaint (factory paint was crap when I bought it in '81). But as it naps in the garage . . . too drab and dull-looking to show . . . too obsolete and heavy to race . . . too thirsty and octane-sensitive to cruise or "Power Tour" . . . too expensive to properly restore . . . but too nice just to sacrifice to someone as a daily driver or to be used-up and hacked by an entry-level enthusiast . . . I just can't ever bring myself to sell it. Yet I can't really get all that excited about it anymore, either. With all its faults and quaint limitations, it's probably the only factory muscle from the swingin' sixties that I'll ever own.

Nice to see someone else taking the luxury/performance plunge. These cars are truly the "missing link" between the sixties and the seventies.

[Barry Donovan]

I found an 80s cutlass local, swapped manual tranny. race cars did it all the time for local track..
but this one was on the road. nice car.

it really was a missing link. took some guttless out of the cutlass. I still argue for b-pillars, but we all have our own reason.
I like what they did for crown vics. Found a guy who even makes the clutch pedal out of mustang parts (posts on you tube as a service).

it is unique..as stick shift is like a light mustang, rarely heavy sedans coupes. it is a new torque to feel.

I myself fell for a tin can with ten gears (arguably 15) 3 mode AWD. I can shift like an old rig..twin stick. all smooth. it is comical.

[BluLightning]

Nice score Grouch.