Transmission was replaced due to previous owners abuse before I got the car. Right front wheel bearing, so I'm replacing both. Alternator, rear tail lights, interior lights and radio. All problems I believe to be caused by the previous owner. The motor seems to be leaking coolant into the oil (oil pressure doesn't stabilize) so I believe the head gaskets must be damaged and I believe the motor may have spun a bearing and I believe the cam may have one or two shaved lobes. (As I understand this was due to the type of metal used in cam shafts this year)
I love my SS to begin with. Unfortunately it appears that I may have bought someone else's problems, but that actually is just speeding up what I originally bought the car for. The car is slow for a car called an SS, but it handles like a Ferrari and so I have had plans since I bought it to transplant a 383 stroked Chevrolet where the 305 sits now. And with all that is wrong with it currently I still drive it to shows I just change the oil often. Since I never plan to sell this car and it isn't a daily driver I am going to probably, but it under a car cover in the garage this winter untill I get my motor for it and next summer it should be good to go. But honestly this car is one of the best handling cars I have ever been in and other than the issues with the motor (which I don't feel were chevrolets fault, when I bought the car it had been running on 7 cylinders for months while the wife drove it to work as her daily driver and when I changed the oil for the first time it came out like sparkling syrup) I think it is a fantastic car. Full framed, perfect for an engine upgrade and handles really well. It also is the perfect summer cruise car because it has t tops.
The Monte Carlo handles like a Ferrari?
Poor Enzo is spinning in his grave again!
I wrote the above and the Monte Carlo is my car. Enzo Ferrari started out as a race car driver for Alfa Romeo and he drove lower powered and worse handling cars than you see Ferrari produce now. He made enough money at that point to start modify other vehicles for a business and then started making his own cars.
I think our spinning friend Enzo would probably appreciate the most successful Chevrolet body style to participate in Nascar as well as the car itself being a cheap, easily maintainable and upgradeable car for people like me who are 24 with not a lot of cash that want to own something with some power that handles well compared to other vehicles competitivly priced.
This is a "Sports Car" and that's what I intended the reference of "handles like a Ferrari" to point to. Maybe it was a little bit of an exaggeration, but I have a feeling Enzo Ferrari would not be personally upset with me.
Not all Ferraris were F-40s, F-50s and 575m's. The earlier ones were more like powerful sport cars, not the deemed "Super Cars" of today.
I have a few books on the early days of the Ferrari company and the man that founded it. If you don't have something intelligent or insightful to say about a car review, maybe you should just leave your comments to yourself instead of insulting somone.
Yet another example of the dilution of the term "sports car" by applying it to a Monte Carlo. This is why it no longer means anything--it is applied to everything from Ford Mustangs to Honda Civics. Ironically, the more it is used, the less it signifies.
The claim that a Monte Carlo handles like a Ferrari does not even merit a rebuttal.
Yet again... The Monte Carlo SS has been one of the most successful race cars ever to grace the track. To this day people run the Monte Carlo body style in the following race car formats:
1) Circle Track (some of Dale Earnhardt's most successful years were behind the wheel of an Monte Carlo chassis.)
2) Drag Racing.
3) Auto Cross.
That very car modified or not has been involved with more racing formats then most.
A sports car is a car that can be used for competitive sport as I understand it, and if that is the case and I can prove that the car has participated and dominated in the sports above? How do you respond to that?
So let's put two and two together, the car participates successfully and competitively in sports, but is not a sports car?
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