GM Has Done A few Things Right

"HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo) 06/24/2018 at 17:11 • Filed to: None

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Most generations of the Monte Carlo are on that list.Post some good looking Montes 

bob and john > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 17:19

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boxyboi

daender > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 17:23

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Everyone remembers the Chevelle and the Corvette but the first-gen Monte had a SS 454 4-speed option!

Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 17:24

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My grandfather had one of these as his divorce car. Sold it for a PT Cruiser..

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > bob and john 06/24/2018 at 17:25

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When I was 8 or 10 years old, just getting into cars there was a black and red Monte SS like that for sale our side of a restaurant, and for some reason I was completely enamored by it. I thought t was the coolest thing ever 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > daender 06/24/2018 at 17:25

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And it looks daaaaamm good 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish 06/24/2018 at 17:26

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That one doesn’t get on the “things done right” list. That one goes on the “why GM didn’t deserve a bail out” list. 

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 17:27

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JeepJeremy > bob and john 06/24/2018 at 17:28

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That’s nasty!!!

Tareim - V8 powered > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 17:33

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Am I doing this right?

KnowsAboutCars > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 17:36

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Photo credit: Skyway Classics

Photo credit: OPGI

WilliamsSW > daender 06/24/2018 at 17:40

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This was the best M o n t e.

I may be b i a sed, having o w n e d a ‘7 2.

BeaterGT > Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish 06/24/2018 at 17:43

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Saw the Intimidator special edition while cruising today! At least they're supercharged 

OmerCarrothers333 > daender 06/24/2018 at 17:53

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When I was a kid, my older sister had one of these. It had the swivel bucket seats, which she said were great when she’d had too much tequila. 

Urambo Tauro > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 18:08

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I appluad GM for at least rying to make it loo k m o r e l i k e a M o n t e , a n d l e s s l i k e a L u m i n a . Howe v e r , I j u s t c a n ’ t g e t p a s t the whole FWD thing. NOT A M ONTE.

Sweet Trav > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 18:14

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Mine.

My bird IS the word > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 18:43

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No NASCARlo, no star.

SHARPSPEED > Mr. FiSTer of Team FiST Fetish 06/24/2018 at 19:07

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Your gramps was clearly man of refined taste.

SHARPSPEED > Sweet Trav 06/24/2018 at 19:07

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Is that a Z/28 back there?

wafflesnfalafel > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 19:08

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yeah - never really was a fan of Monte Carlos, but the first gen is a really good looking car.  Design is tight, hadn’t gotten too bloaty yet, didn’t immediately fall apart like the 1980's version...

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 19:26

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Sweet Trav > SHARPSPEED 06/24/2018 at 19:29

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Nope, my wife’s 2015 Camaro SS 1LE

SHARPSPEED > Sweet Trav 06/24/2018 at 19:55

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Your wife’s car is a Camaro lookin’ like it’s ready to kick a Boxster in it’s smug, overpriced teeth. Helluva keeper you scored.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 20:03

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that goes on the “Amazing... You got every design choice on that car WRONG” list.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 20:21

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The last time Monte Carlo was brought up...

My parents had an 81 Monte Carlo when I was growing up. They had upgraded, and the Monte became the car I drove for the first year of having my driver’s license.

I bought a Mustang fastback less than a year later. The Monte was better than no transportation, but it wasn’t a whole lot more exciting than that. Balloon tires, and soft suspension, and a fair amount of weight for a carbureted early 80's 3.8 V6 to carry around... especially one that was more than 10 years old.

Plus it was similar to the pictured car, the same powder blue, but with a white vinyl landau top that the pictured car should be thankful not to have. Not even the dark-blue vinyl, but the 70's leisure suit white. Tragically un-cool.

If it had been a darker, nicer color, and a small block V8... especially if it had had T-tops, and a floor shift and bucket seats, rather than bench seat and column shift, I probably would have been a bit more enthused, as a teenager gear-head.

I struggle to actually LIKE GM products ever since... I am coming to terms with liking the Fiero as much as I do, appreciating the engineering of the Voltec 2 drivetrain engineering... and other aspects of GM from the 80s through today.

That white vinyl top is so rare, I can’t find pictures of a G-body Monte with one... only the dark blue, or earlier 70's cars with the white landau roof. For a reason.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 06/24/2018 at 21:27

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Aero is best G body

That’s not what those are called, is it Euro? The aero is the one with the slanted rear glass for NASCAR homolgation 

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 06/24/2018 at 21:30

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The worst part is I liked it back in 2002 or what ever. In my defense I was 12. I even sketched out an El Camino version once. I think the main attraction for me was that I came in yellow. 

Tristan > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/24/2018 at 21:46

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Aerocoupe!

bob and john > Sweet Trav 06/25/2018 at 00:25

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Is she no longer on oppo? Havent seen her for a while now that I think about it. Or you for that matter

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/25/2018 at 09:58

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I can’t fault anyone for their formative automotive memories and preferences . If that is what was going on when you started to notice cars... then there is no fault with that, and no defense needed.

As I mentioned earlier, I was driving an 81 Monte when I was in high school, in the early 90s, in a tragically uncool color at the time... badly wishing that it were some other color, or a sportier variant, like a Grand Prix, or a Regal T-type/Grand National... even a Monte SS Aerocoupe, or an F-body, or anything other than what I had, with the formal roofline, and the aft-tapered fenders, the cloth bench seat, and handling like the QE2. (a big ocean ship)

I wanted something sportier and sleeker, so it kind of colored my judgement on Montes, and GM in general.

CaptDale - is secretly British > HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles 06/25/2018 at 16:39

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