1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS For Sale
Fast Lane Classic Cars:
This 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SS for sale is a factory 396 super sport finished in correct Marina Blue.
It has a 427 cubic inch GM crate motor with 480 horsepower and 490 pound feet of torque,
a 4 speed manual transmission, 4.11:1 ratio 12 bolt rear end, and power disc brakes.
The correct Blue vinyl bench seat interior features factory air conditioning, power steering, front and rear
seat belts, padded dash, a column mounted tachometer, power windows, AM/FM radio, updated speakers, tilt
wheel, and emergency flashers.
This sale includes the original window sticker, original
1967 title, sales invoice, order slips, and the original 396
cubic inch V8 engine.
This is a beautifully restored factory SS 396 with an updated power train!
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS For Sale ** Rare Numbers Matching LS6!
Fast Lane Classic Cars:
This 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 for
sale is an extensively restored and
highly documented factory LS6 car. It is
one of only 4,475 LS6s produced in 1970.
This car includes the original build
sheet, window sticker, Protect-O-Plate and
copies of titles since it was new. The
Chevelle is finished in correct Forest
Green and has power disc brakes behind
14-inch SS wheels. The correct Dark Green
bench seat interior features a padded dash, day/night rearview mirror, rally gauges,
and front and rear seatbelts. The floor
mounted gearshift mates with a Muncie
M22 4-speed transmission. The
numbers-matching 454 LS6 four-barrel
V8 has been freshly rebuilt. You can find
the correct casting dates throughout the
engine and accessories. This is an
extensively restored highly documented
LS6 Chevelle finished in the correct
colors with a numbers matching V8.
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Knowledge Base
Motorious:
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle
In 1970, the Chevrolet Chevelle received a new, more angular look
For the 1970 models, GM dropped the 400-cubic-inch limit
and started offering a 454 ci engine that produced between 360 and 450 horse power
Trim levels offered were Standard, Greenbriar, El Camimo, El Camino Custom,
Concours, Malibu, Monte Carlo and Nomad
Production totaled 633,944
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle 454 Super Sport, like the one seen here,
was the most powerful Chevelle ever
It featured a cowl induction trap door at the base of the hood dome
that collected high-pressure air from around the windshield and funneled it into the carburetor for added performance
The packages for the Super Sport in 1970 were exclusive to the Malibu Sports Coupe and Convertible, as well as the El Camino
The 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SOLD / 136558
RK Motors:
Combining a hot LSX 454 with a tough Tremec
6-speed and sinister black-on-black aesthetics,
this gruff 1970 Chevelle draws big crowds
and big compliments.
The beneficiary of a body-off, nut-and-bolt
restoration that was completed by Sugarloaf,
Pennsylvania’s Tony’s Muscle Cars, this
awesome A-Body has been lovingly coated in
rich black 2-stage.
Chrome bumpers and SS emblems maintain the
classic look, while staggered Ridler wheels
set off the sinister attitude.
Combining modern aesthetic with timeless style,
the tasteful interior is a perfect place to
cruise the day away!
Seating is provided by plush TMI thrones.
Cut-pile carpet centers a factory console
on a Hurst shifter.
A padded dash founds Dakota Digital
gauges next to modern air conditioning and
modern RetroSound audio.
And the driver spins a polished steering wheel
around a tilting column.
Lift this Chevy’s low-rise hood and you’ll
find a 454 cubic inch, 627 horsepower Chevrolet
Performance LSX 454.
That engine is trailed by a Tremec T56 Magnum
6-speed and a Currie 9 inch.
Simply put: this menacing Chevelle is some
of the coolest metal on the planet!
As it sits, the car offers the best of both
worlds: a unique classic
that sets itself apart from acres of pony
cars and land yachts.
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American Aston Martin? '66 Malibu: /BIG MUSCLE
THE DRIVE:
[CAR ENGINE]
MIKE MUSTO: Today on "Big
Muscle," we've got a 1966
Chevrolet Chevelle with
604 horsepower and
a wicked bad attitude.
So hang on, because today is
going to be outstanding.
Seriously, it's going
to be good.
[CAR ENGINE ROARING]
MIKE MUSTO: My name
is Mike Musto.
Each week, I travel the country
with the goal of
showcasing the best and baddest
muscle cars and hot
rods around.
Every car has a past, and
every owner, a story.
Welcome to the world
of "Big Muscle."
[CAR ENGINES ROARING]
ENZO MORALES: Today we're
looking at my 1966 Chevy
Chevelle Malibu.
I've been working on the car
for about four years.
I bought it at the tail end of
2008 during the whole economic
downfall there, as strictly
a stress reliever.
And it slowly evolved into kind
of like the dream car.
And over the course of the last
four years, with the help
of a lot of friends, I was able
to put this car together.
We've got it running now
for about four months.
And it's really just been ideal
as far as what I wanted,
what I pictured, and what the
end result ended up being as
far as the performance, the
reliability, and just the
overall driveability
of the car.
[CAR ENGINE]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
MIKE MUSTO: Ladies and
gentlemen, welcome to another
episode of "Big Muscle." Today,
we are driving the 1966
Chevrolet Malibu Chevelle.
You know, it's a car that, while
it may look like a pro
touring car, it was actually
developed by Enzo to be more
of a kind of a grand tourer.
When you design a grand touring
car, you want a couple
of things, right?
You want a comfortable ride.
You want compliant suspension.
You want great brakes.
And you want halfway
decent gas mileage.
And that's something he's
actually managed to encompass
in this car and to incorporate
very, very well.
You know, from a looks
standpoint, it's very sinister.
The gloss black paint with the
bronze striped wheels lend to
look that is very, very
kind of intimidating.
But I'll be honest with you,
once you get in this thing and
you start driving it, it's
really anything but.
Engine-wise, we're talking about
an LS3 that's been kind
of massaged by Nelson Racing
Engines to the tune of just a
tad over 600 horsepower.
And I mean, the car goes.
I mean, you roll into it,
and it'll basically
just pull for days.
I mean, the transmission is a
T56 out of a 2002 Trans Am,
and, to be honest, I mean,
it shifts flawlessly.
One thing I do have to say,
though, is the clutch is a
sledgehammer.
I mean, this is not a car
that I want to get
stuck in traffic with.
Now, you're looking at me
driving this thing, right?
And I've got my hands on
basically what seems to be
like a 20-inch steering wheel.
I mean, this is pizza
pie size.
But it works.
The way that Enzo did this
interior was by combining new
and old, right?
And of course, we've showcased
you guys' cars
before that do that.
They take a little bit of new
and a little bit of old, and
they meld it together.
Well, what Enzo did was he kept
it primarily old school.
The dash is 100% stock with
tiny, tiny little differences.
So, for instance, there are
numbers on the temp gauge as
opposed to just low and high.
The door panels, this looks like
they're bone stock, but
they're not.
Enzo actually took a lot of
time and sat down with a
designer to say, this is how I
want the car to be portrayed.
[CAR ENGINE]
ENZO MORALES: Well, the
interior, there was definitely
some purpose behind it.
I'm not as svelte as
I look on camera.
I'm 6' 3", about 235 pounds.
So I had to design interior
around my comfort.
One of the big things I've
noticed about newer cars is
the ergonomics as far as when
you're sitting in the car, the
comfort level that you achieve
by just putting yourself
elbows down in certain areas
or where the shifter is
positioned.
So when I went to talk to Mark
Lopez up at Elegance
Interiors, we literally sat down
for probably four hours
on his desk, and I made him
sketch everything out.
He had the car for about
2 and 1/2 weeks.
He listened to what I wanted.
He achieved it, I feel,
in the way that he
put in interior together.
What we did is we basically
created a 7/8-style rear seat
that he fabricated that makes
the interior look actually
larger than it is when you look
in through the window.
The seats are all the way back,
and when they're all the
way back, my leg can't actually
disengage the clutch
all the way.
I have to actually
click it up.
So those little things for
me were important.
Leg room, you know, being able
to put my kids behind me while
I'm in the car.
All of the interior cues are
taken from the '60s as far as
the original styling
of the car.
But we just modernized it a
little bit, created a little
bit more of an aggressive
attitude, and then just
refined it.
[CAR ENGINE]
MIKE MUSTO: The suspension,
the guys at RideTech did a
great job, a great job on giving
him a set of single
adjustables for this thing.
You don't need triple
adjustables on a car like
this, because, I'll be honest
with you, it's just overkill.
This thing is more of a set
it and forgot it type of
automobile.
Cruising like this is
all fine and dandy.
And it's great--
cruising along, 60 miles
an hour, no big deal.
But again, you take
this car, right?
What do you do?
You drop it down a gear--
[CAR ENGINE]
MIKE MUSTO: --whack it.
[CAR ENGINE]
MIKE MUSTO: It frickin'
pulls, man.
Well, that's as Matt Farah
would say, that's
possible jail time.
So let's just leave
it at that.
School zone.
-Flip the bitch.
Get out of here.
MIKE MUSTO: Flip the bitch
in the school zone
because they love that.
-For the kids, Mike.
MIKE MUSTO: For the kids.
-Do it for the kids, Mike.
MIKE MUSTO: Do it
for the kids.
-You know what you have to do.
MIKE MUSTO: What's up, kids?
I've got kids over here.
They're motioning for
me to do a burnout.
However, I'm not going
to do a burnout?
Why?
Because we're in
a school zone.
-You should still
do a burnout.
MIKE MUSTO: I'm not
doing a burnout.
-You should do a burnout.
It's for the kids.
MIKE MUSTO: I'm not doing
a burnout for the kids!
-Do a burnout for the kids.
MIKE MUSTO: I'm not doing
a burnout in a school
zone for the kids.
Now the school zone sign said
we're ended, so now we can go.
[TIRES SQUEALING]
MIKE MUSTO: A lot of people ask
me, they're like, how do
you review a car and what
do you look for?
And my answer is well, we review
it based on what the
owner says he wanted
to do with the car.
In Enzo's case, he wanted to
build a great grand touring
car that can not only go from
point A to point B hundreds of
miles away in complete comfort,
but I wanted a car
could handle, brake, turn, and
do all the things that a good
grand touring car should do.
So we did the on-road portion,
where we just kind of did the
distance style thing.
And now what we're doing is
we're cruising through the
canyons, and we're going to do
the handling, the braking.
I'm going to tell
you how it is.
It shifts beautifully.
We can go down.
We can rumble through
the gears, OK?
Come into a corner,
hit the brakes.
The brakes are off a Z06
Corvette, and they're manual.
Turn the car in.
Now, we're not doing
anything crazy.
It's not like we're going
monumental speeds.
But what we're doing is putting
the car through kind
of a little handling course just
to get an idea if there's
body roll, if there's any
squeaks, if there's any
rattles, and to kind of see how
the whole package works in
conjunction with each other.
The car so far is great.
Manual brakes, if you're not
used to them, they take a
little getting used to.
But they stop the car
absolutely fine.
You go in.
You feel the steering, right?
You turn in.
Even with this big
wheel, how is it?
Well, it's actually
really nice.
Look, there's no roll
in the car.
The seats, even though they're
not high back seats, are
holding me in just fine going
through the corner, right?
[LAUGHING]
MIKE MUSTO: The car
handles great.
And you've got to remember
that a '66 Chevelle
is not a small car.
These are big cars.
They're heavy cars with
a long wheelbase, OK?
We drove a '66 Chevelle last
season, and it was a fabulous,
fabulous car, but with such a
different personality than
this, even though they're
the same make and model.
That's the beauty
of the hobby.
You can differentiate.
You can have fun.
You can enjoy.
And at day's end, you can pull
up to the exact same car make
and model and have something
completely different.
[CAR ENGINE]
ENZO MORALES: Having been born
in Peru, I came here in 1981
when I was six years old.
The first car I rode in, my dad
was actually borrowing a
car from his brother was,
I think, a 1969 911T.
And it was my absolute first
experience in any kind of a
performance vehicle ever,
and it changed my world.
I mean, from that point forward,
I became overly
obsessed with four wheels.
I think ultimately, the guy that
was kind of driving that
a little bit from behind
was my dad.
He just kind of always liked
that I was into it.
When he was 18 and he lived
in Long Beach--
he had been here in the States
for a while back then--
he bought a 1957
Chevy Bel Air.
And so when I was 14 and 1/2,
almost 15 years old, he bought
a '57 Bel Air for me, and that's
what kind of took me to
where I'm at today.
I had this ideal group of
friends when I was growing up.
We used to sit around late
nights when we were 15, 16
years old, reading car
magazines, talking about what
we wanted to build.
And slowly but surely, we
all kind of elevated
each others' games.
By the time we were 18, 19 years
old, we were driving
11-second cars on the street,
delivering pizzas, literally.
One of my best friends became a
very famous engine builder,
although his car was terribly
slow during those times and I
beat him every single
time we raced.
For those of you who don't know,
it's Tom Nelson from
Nelson Racing Engines, who
I credit to building this
wonderful engine.
He was one of the guys
who contributed
to the build, but--
just for the record--
never beat me in a drag race.
But anyway, I was very
fortunate, because it really
kept us all out of trouble.
I mean, we were all guys that
probably would have gone down
different paths were
it not for cars.
The cars really saved us.
And that's really what I
attribute to the friendships
that I had when I was a kid.
[CAR ENGINE]
MIKE MUSTO: One of the things
about talking to Enzo is that
he's got a massive personality,
and it's really
kind of infectious.
I mean, you talk to him,
and he gets excited.
And he starts telling stories.
And then you get excited
listening to his stories.
And you're like, goddammit.
And the reason you say goddammit
is because you don't
a story that's as good as his
story about the stuff that he
did when he was a kid.
I mean, drag racing and doing
this and running from the
cops, which you should
never do.
But, I mean, not only does this
guy have a great family,
he's got an awesome car.
He's got a kick-ass job.
Not--
I mean, we have pretty
cool job, too.
I'm not going to lie to you.
But I guess in the end, what's
really cool is it's nice to
see good people have
good things.
And it's nice to see somebody
who had a vision from the
beginning develop.
This is why we do what we do.
This is why we're in the desert
right now in this
awesome Chevelle.
If I can't convince you that
stuff like this is cool, I am
so not doing my job right.
[CAR ENGINE]
MIKE MUSTO: Sometimes on this
show, when all the pieces fall
perfectly into place, we realize
just how lucky we are.
Like the time we drove a blown
Cadillac down the Pacific
Coast Highway.
Or when we did burnouts
in a GT500 Mustang.
Or maybe it was the time when we
are ripping up the canyons
in a Corvette-crushing 69 AMX.
Those are the type of things
we live for on the show.
Today, too, was one
of those days.
For as the sunset and the day
came to a close, we knew we
had just experienced a car where
all the time, energy,
and parts worked perfectly
together.
Man, hot day, hot day.
Oh wait, how do we
get out of here?
The gate that's now closed.
Where's the stop sign?
Can you come in this way?
No.
Is this right?
How do we get out?
Are we going all the way down?
What the [BLEEP].
Tell the guys to go out that
way, because there's
no exit over here.
Whew.
Sweaty hot.
This gate opens inward,
doesn't it?
-Yeah.
-What?
MIKE MUSTO: How do we get out?
1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SOLD / 136480
RK Motors:
With awesome Black aesthetics and 6.2 liters
of Chevrolet Performance LS3, this slick Chevelle
drop-top will turn driving your muscle car
from a hobby into an obsession!
Are you looking for some Detroit metal that
wraps exceptional drivability in one of the
best looking packages to ever hit the streets?
This needs to be your next classic!
Buff, bad and ready to roll, this pristine
Chevelle is the beneficiary of a body-off
rotisserie restoration.
That nut-and-bolt reboot, conducted by the
pros at Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania’s Tony’s
Muscle Cars, dressed solid sheetmetal in a
rich coat of Tuxedo Black 2-stage.
And decked with a cowl induction hood, SS
emblems, and brigh Ridler wheels, this handsome
Chevy walks a fine line between tastefully
modern and traditionally conservative.
Open the doors and you’ll find a familiar
muscle car aesthetic that’s had modern convenience
integrated where it counts.
The front seats are heavily bolstered units
that were sourced directly from TMI, and the
rear seat has been covered to match.
A monochromatic dash founds Dakota Digital
gauges above modern, direct-fit audio and
Vintage Air climate control.
And the driver enjoys the car’s power through
a long Hurst shifter and a billet steering
wheel.
Officially known as the Chevrolet Performance
LS376/480, the car’s strong engine turns
out 495 horsepower and 473 lb./ft. of torque.
That power flows through a Tremec 6-speed
manual, back to a 12-bolt rear with positraction and 4.10 gears
If you’re in the market for a choice boulevard
bruiser that’s a blast to show off and even
MORE fun to drive, your search is officially
over!
This professionally restored Chevelle mixes
classic Chevrolet looks with a ton of power
and some of the best drivetrain components
on the market.
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CHEVY MONTE CARLO - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed
Donut Media:
- Hey kid, you wanna go fast?
You wanna be real comfortable too?
You wanna be a NASCAR driver?
Well, I got what you need right here.
It's got two doors, and it's named after
an administrative area of principality
of Monaco in the south of France.
This is everything you need to know
to get up to speed on
the Chevy Monte Carlo.
Sometimes, you're just
too tired to do the job,
whether that's hosting a
show, writing a script,
or washing your car.
But thanks to NOS Energy,
I got that good energy that
helps me get the job done.
♪ Power baby ♪
♪ More power baby ♪
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♪ More power ♪
- It was the mid-60s and
Chevy was doing well.
With 12 different models for sale,
like the Camaro, Impala, and Malibu,
it seemed like them bow tie
boys and girls had it all.
But the grass ain't always greener.
Sometimes, it has big yellow spots
where your dog's been doing his business.
Chevy had a problem, and that problem
was named the Ford Thunderbird.
Ford's luxury two-door had
been selling well enough
since the mid-50s to force GM brands
like Pontiac and Buick
to respond with cars
like the Grand Prix and the Riviera.
GM brass was stoked, but back at Chevy,
there was another story.
Chevy general manager, Pete Estes,
remember him from the Camaro episode,
he's literally (bleep) nuts.
He was pissed off.
If Pontiac and Buick were allowed to have
personal luxury cars, why shouldn't Chevy?
Chevy division sales manager,
Lee Mays, didn't agree.
He was like, "No means no, Estes.
"Jesus, literally walking out the door.
"I gotta get to a frickin'
recital, don't you know?"
So there wouldn't be a Chevy
competitor to the Thunderbird,
not for a few more years.
Then, it was 1968.
John Z. DeLorean, you ever heard of him,
was now the general manager at Chevy.
He was hot off his success at Pontiac
where he made the Grand Prix a
worthy Thunderbird competitor
and helped start the muscle car
wars with the legendary GTO.
DeLorean was a marketing fricking genius,
who knew that making young
people like your brand
was the key to success,
kind of like how the Champion brand
used to be for your Uncle Jeff,
but now Ryan Tuerck wears them
and they sell for 75
bucks at Urban Outfitters.
I bought four.
Tuerck's cool.
So in walks John DeLorean with that BDE,
and he didn't get along
with Lee Mays either.
DeLorean goes to the top GM brass and says
that Mays is straight
up getting in the way
of DeLorean's success.
Mays was reassigned to Buick
general manager shortly after.
Now that he was out, no
more Mays, no more problem.
That's how you gotta be, man.
If someone's in the way
of where you gotta be,
get them out of there.
That's the Kentucky cobra way.
With Mays gone, the Chevy team got to work
on their new personal luxury vehicle,
code name, Concurs.
Here's how it's spelled.
That's how I'm gonna say it.
The car was based off
of GM's G-body platform.
Coincidentally, the same
as the Pontiac Grand Prix.
To make sure buyers knew that Chevy's new
personal luxury vehicle was luxurious,
the Concurs team took inspiration
from another one of GM's luxury cars,
the 1967 Cadillac El Dorado.
And when I say inspiration,
I mean they basically traced the design
and changed a few things
like the headlights.
Cadillac was like, "What the heck, bro?"
But the Concurs team kept working.
They were like, "Don't even
freaking worry about it, dude."
They dressed up the recycled bits,
so people wouldn't feel bad
about dropping more coin
on what was basically
a dressed up Chevelle
wearing a Cadillac fur coat.
Before the Concurs, again how it's spelled
and how I say it, went on sale,
they gave it a new name.
What better name for a big
bodied coupe built in Detroit
than that of a principality at
the base of the Maritime Alps
nestled in the south of France?
In 1970, General Motors
debuted the all new
Chevy Monte Carlo.
The buzz was undeniable.
Car and Driver said it's
a composite of Buick,
Oldsmobile, and Cadillac.
That's what I call high praise.
Along with the base Monte Carlo,
Chevy also made a performance
model with the SS badge,
The main difference
between the base and the SS
was the engine.
The SS was equipped with
a 7.4 liter, 454 V8,
making 360 hrsprs.
To help this beefy boy get around turns,
the SS was outfitted with wider tires
to get the power down
and heavy duty, self-leveling suspension.
To critics, the Monte
Carlo might have been
an odd mish-mash of GM parts and styling,
but to customers, it
was the most affordable
personal luxury car in
America at the time,
and it sold well in the
first two years of its life.
- [Announcer] Monte Carlo, number one
in the personal luxury car field.
- And since the Monte didn't
have a lot of bespoke parts
that were expensive to make,
it made Chevy a lot of money.
Unfortunately for some fans,
the SS was not here to stay.
Chevy bigwigs thought the
idea of a quick luxury car
was a contradiction and axed
the Monte Carlo SS in 1972.
However, that contradiction
did not stop them
from making the Monte
Carlo custom package,
which was basically an
SS without the badges.
Speaking of badges, Chevy loves them.
And they were so committed
to making the Monte Carlo
a luxury mainstay that
they kept the number
of Chevy badges on the car to a minimum.
- Hey Craig, what is that car over there?
It looks like a Chevy but nice.
- I don't know, Jerry.
- I guess we'll never know.
Anyway, we're late for our
reservation at Applebee's, whee.
- I'm gonna be frank.
Throughout the rest of the 70s,
the Monte Carlo wasn't that exciting.
It was making GM money, sure,
and it was getting some
fancier touches along the way.
Engineers fitted the MC with
front seats that could swivel
sideways to make getting
in and out easier.
I would love if seats
swiveled back and forth
that make it easier to get out.
Cut to a super cut of me
getting in and out of cars.
Despite one of the coolest technologies
ever in automotive history,
the old gas crisis hit.
And that wasn't Chevy's only problem.
Japanese car makers were
making life hard for Detroit.
Japan's cars were reliable, economical,
and most importantly, very affordable.
The Monte Carlo was literally
none of those things.
So, (sighs) they would
have to make it smaller.
The third gen Monte was produced
from 1978 all the way to 1980.
That's 12 whole years, 12
whole years, 12 whole years.
1978 all the way to 1980.
That's 12 whole years.
The flat grill was familiar
to the Chevy faithful,
but the rest of the car
was downsized and reshaped
into a sleeker form.
It wasn't a bad car, but the Monte Carlo
had yet to really reach
its full potential.
And this.
Is this where you talk about the part
where the Monte Carlo
reaches its full potential?
Am I really that predictable?
I mean, your content is entertaining,
but let's be honest, you
really do have a formula.
Well, if you've figured out that formula,
feel free to submit to
write for this show.
Go to donutmedia.com, and
then there's a clicky spot
where it says, "Join the team."
1981, the Monte Carlo was leaner
and meaner than ever before
and still retained the
signature personal luxury.
There were a ton of choices
when it came to engines.
Buyers could choose from small
V6's, Oldsmobile 350 diesel,
and even a turbo-charged V6 from Buick.
The variety was proof Chevy
wanted the Monte Carlo
to be the luxury car for everyone.
There was just one problem.
That (bleep) Ford Thunderbird.
For the 1983 NASCAR
season, Ford introduced
a new Thunderbird stock car.
It was a super sleek
and aerodynamic design.
Some people started
calling it the Aero-Bird.
The Aero-Bird would break 200
on an oval on the regular,
and it even set a race
lap record at Talladega
that still stands today, today.
Chevy responded by petitioning NASCAR
to let them run a new
nose on the Monte Carlo
for the 1983 season, which NASCAR allowed.
We got friends at NASCAR.
Shout-out Matt Sommers.
But since it was stock car racing,
that meant the Monte Carlo road car
had to be produced with
the new nose as well,
and that wasn't all.
Since the Monte Carlo was
now an aerodynamic race car,
it needed
performance to match.
Chevy dropped a 305 cubic
inch V8 under the hood
and brought back a long lost trim level.
Super sport.
Yes, the Monte Carlo SS was back
for the first time in 12 years
and looked better than ever.
The new SS was a huge hit with customers,
outselling the more luxurious LS package
and becoming the most
popular Monte Carlo trim.
It also didn't hurt that the Monte Carlo
was kicking (bleep) in NASCAR.
That's what you call kickin' Nass.
The Monte Carlo was holding
its own against the T-Bird,
but holding its own wasn't good enough.
As Monte Carlos screamed around the track,
the dramatic drop of the rear window
created a high pressure zone,
which pulled backwards on the car.
If they could make that
angle smoother, the car
would go faster, so that's what they did.
Chevy engineers made a
three-piece rear window
that significantly decreased
the slope to 25 degrees.
They called it the Aerocoupe.
Chevy had to build 200 of
these things for the public
to meet homologation rules.
So in 1986, that's what they did.
But something weird happened.
People really liked them.
So in 1987, they didn't
limit Aerocoupe production
and ended up selling more
than 6000 of them that year.
But wait, what about your friend, Dale?
Dale Earnhardt was a one-time
Winston Cup champion.
He spent the mid-80s behind the wheel
of a Ford Aero-Bird but switched
to a Monte Carlo Aerocoupe
for the 86 season.
Good move, Dale.
He took the blue and
yellow Wrangler Jeans Monte
all the way to the tippity top
and earned his second
championship that year.
The next year, he followed it
up with another championship.
That makes three, which was fitting
because that's also his number.
Dale's in your face driving style
and nearly unquenchable need to win
earned him the nickname, The Intimidator.
The intimidation factor
was made official in 1988
when Dale got a new sponsor.
His Monte Carlo went from
the jovial blue and yellow
to a new paint scheme that
truly embodied his nickname.
It was painted black.
If that didn't make other drivers puh-poo
in their puh-pants, nothing would.
Earnhardt would win
four more championships,
bringing the total to seven.
As the 80s came to an end,
Dale had made the Monte Carlo a legend.
Unfortunately, that wasn't enough
to justify the car's
existence in the real world.
Those Japanese cars the
Monte Carlo had downsized
to fight 10 years earlier were getting
really, really, really good.
So 1988 was the last model
year for the Monte Carlo
and would be replaced by the
front wheel drive Lumina.
But this wasn't the end
for the Monte Carlo.
All right.
By 1995, the Lumina's image was
very, very, very boring.
So to spice things up, Chevy
renamed the two-door Lumina,
the Monte Carlo.
Whoo, we're back, baby.
But not really.
The new Monte didn't
really have anything to do
with the old one.
Aww, man.
Chevy did eventually introduce
a new SS model in 2004
featuring a supercharged
V6, making 240 horsepower.
In an attempt to relive the glory days,
Chevy also released a Dale
Earnhardt edition Monte Carlo,
available in either black for Senior
or red for Junior.
The Earnhardt edition had a bunch
of other NASCAR style touches,
like either Senior or Junior's
number plastered inside
and some race inspired gauges.
Most importantly, the black one came
with an Intimidator badge on the back.
You could only buy one of those
if you were truly most
definitely doing it for Dale.
Shouts to Cleetus
McFarland, what's up, man?
I like you a lot.
We should hang out.
The Monte Carlo got its
final refresh in 2006
with its most notable
improvement under the hood.
The Monte Carlo SS was
once again powered by a V8
the first time in 18 years.
That's right, a V8.
I don't know, yeah, they do it.
Chevy announced that the Monte
Carlo would be discontinued
for 2007, citing low consumer interest,
i.e., no one cared.
And fears that the Monte might steal sales
from the upcoming Camaro,
which I don't really follow along with.
I just want to give a quick
shouts to (bleep) helmets,
I'm gonna have to bleep
your name on the episode,
This guy painted this
really cool helmet for me,
and he talked to me about it
and he let me design it with him.
I'm very happy with it,
so check out his Instagram
and his website, I'll put the
link in the description below.
I love you.
1966 Chevrolet Chevelle SS L78 SOLD / 136255
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1967 Chevrolet Chevelle SOLD / 136257
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Fully sorted and ready to hit the road, this
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The beneficiary of a body-off restoration,
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During the car's precise reboot, solid sheetmetal
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pigment.
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And the driver spins a sporty Grant steering
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Under the hood you’ll find 496 cubic inches
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That iron block sends its brute power through
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1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS SOLD / 136467
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Naturally, that detailed reboot began with
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