1979 Chevrolet Monte Carlo review from North America

This car was a pile of scrap metal.

The story of how the engine blew up is a story I keep telling. I managed to sell this piece of junk to some bow-tie blinded fool in Wisconsin. It was funny, on the drive to his house it started to have a really bad knock that kept getting worse and worse as we went. This was OK, I told him the motor was junk. After 30 miles of driving through the boon-docks of Wisconsin the knock got so bad it sounded like someone hitting the block with a hammer really fast. A half mile from the guys house the engine blew up, and KEPT RUNNING! I was blinded by smoke and oil from the engine bay but managed to get it to his house. As I pulled into the driveway the engine BLEW UP AGAIN and seized. Lucky eh?

This car was 100% cheap. I figure it wasn't worth the $20 I paid for it. I compared it indepth with my 79 Thunderbird. Both cars were in the same price range and size, etc. The T-bird slung an extra half ton of steel, it didn't have any rattles (where with the Monte, the entire car rattled), was a couple feet longer, came with door hinges that lasted into the 90's, didn't have a "fall down" ceiling, came with larger rims, and is still surviving with the same paint after three hundred and sixty thousand miles of hard driving through the salty strips of Minnesota after being a police car for who knows how many years.

OK.. lets compare quality between these two cars... nah.. lets not..