Full disclosure: it’s been a long day of driving today, so I’m not about to even guess what time period this 1979 Chevrolet Monte Carlo’s build dates to. My money says that it’s only a couple of years after it rolled off of the line, but I could be wrong. But let’s start at the beginning with this G-body…the downsizing. For most of the 1970s, the Monte Carlo was the car everybody was chasing after. Monte had round headlights, everyone had round headlights. Monte went to stacked double square headlights, everybody else did too. Then for 1978, the Monte went on a diet and had the same initial, unfortunate “shrunk in the dryer” sensation that fans of the Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Cougar got to experience in 1980. GM had tried to keep the styling cues going, but on the smaller platform, and it didn’t translate as well as they had hoped.
That doesn’t mean it’s a bad car to own. If you can look past the looks, you’ve got a G-body and the good that comes with it. Here, you also get a set of Cragar Super Tricks and a mail slot scoop, a fly-eye air cleaner, and a reason to blast Foreigner out of the deck. This Monte is a throwback and should be treated as such. $3,500 scores the car, and if it was up to us, we’d simply focus on keepin’ on keepin’ on. Why mess with the classics?
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I would have murdered for this car in 1988 (when I was 16). I still love those Super Trick wheels. I’d leave it alone and stab in a monster pump gas Sony’s motor and a Lenco!
As long as the frame is not rotten this is not a bad price. I would rock it
“Word” on the rotten frame. I love these cars, but the few still rolling in the midwest are nearly sure to have catastrophic rot.