I have always loved the Monte Carlo SS such as yours!! Such beautiful lines on that car.
I have to agree with you. I wanted one from the first time I saw an SS advertised in 1984. I had to wait for about 10 years before I got one for various reasons. I've owned that one for quite a long time in different incarnations.
Matter of fact, I've owned 4 or 5 of 'em including an Aerocoupe that I never should have sold. It was an 87...they only made 6500 of 'em and I got that one at a bargain basement price because the seller and I both believed it had a flat cam. No, it was a cracked vacuum line. But it was possessed of evil spirits. I musta had the instrument cluster in and out 30 times tryin to get the gauges and dash lights to work properly. And every time I did that, I'd lose another chunk of skin on my hands and bleed on it again. It had to be possessed. No simple mechanical device could have been that bloodthirsty. When I finally got everything working, including the red LED dash lights I made one of the more profound discoveries of my life. Well, I should say re-discovered something I'd learned years before in basic electronics training: you can't dim an LED. Once the voltage across it drops below the bias level, it stops conducting. Period. On or off. Maybe by this time someone has come up with something that will work for that use, but 10 years ago I got retraining in something I'd learned 35 years before.
There's the whole story of that car here:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/85monte/Welcome.htmlThe way it sits now, it has a roller-cam, AFR head 406, street/strip 3500 RPM stall TC/TH200-4R transmission, a buncha poly bushings underneath here and there, Delrin/aluminum bushings in the control arms (front and rear), Eibach springs, KYB shocks and so on. It'd probably make a better start on a pro-touring type thing, but I was halfway into it when I caught a bad case of salt fever. It's been downhill since then.
Oh...I also had another 87, a Notchback that I owned for quite a long time. There were 2 things I didn't like about it: 1) it was white and 2) it had a column shift. I know those things could have been easily rectified, but since my wife drove it...well, I didn't worry about it too much.
