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I've mentioned that I really like the Monte Carlo LS styling that came out in '86, but a couple things about them really grate on me. First, if you bought the vinyl-inserted body side molding, it was about an inch-and-a-half from the bright sill molding--too much--and this small interior thing bugs the heck out of me--maybe because the instrument panel inserts were black on the '86, they made the round glovebox knob black. If I bought one I'd have to change it to a chrome one, LOL.
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I've seen some Cutlass Supremes with a slightly 'aero' front end. I'll assume those are the '87 and '88. I remember the last ones were called "Cutlass Supreme Classic".
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Two door sedan. Bare bones as they were at first. In a red that had faded
to a patina orange--Monte Carlo Red.
Couldn't get close enough for a photo. He was moving briskly.
Must have been a manual, because IIRC the one I rode in in 1960 or so
was slow as molasses with an automatic.
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Other favorite was the ford and Mack cabovers.
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DC Energy was quite the house of cards. They sponsored NASCAR teams and races, and their collapse was just another hit to the body for that organization.
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Aerocoupe.
Only 200 were sold to the public in 1986.
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Which was the highlight of my 7 month residency, there.
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The Monte SS 305 put out 180 hp. However, I'm not sure what the Grand Prix 2+2 put out. I've seen it quoted as 150 hp, 155, and 165. 165 is what it put out in cars like the 1985 Impala/Caprice and Parisienne, and the '85 Silverado I used to have. 150 is what it put out in the 1984 and earlier versions of the big cars. In midsized cars, like the Monte Carlo, Grand Prix, and Bonneville-G, it was choked down a bit to 150, because of a more restrictive exhaust. I'm not sure where the 155 hp came from...might have been a misprint.
I guess if they put a dual exhaust on the 2+2, that might have been enough to bump the hp from 150 to 165? Anyway, it used a 3.08:1 axle ratio, which was a bit quicker than stock, but 0-60 times I've seen were only around 10.2 seconds.
Oddly, the 1986 Monte Carlo I had, which was just a 150 hp 305, and most likely just a 2.41:1 axle, was about that quick, so I'm surprised the 2+2, with more aggressive gearing, was no faster.
The 2+2 was sold pretty much fully-equipped, so it wasn't cheap. And the trunk was almost impossible to get into, because that back window made the opening really tiny...worse even than the SS Aerocoupe.
A profile only a mother could love
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The Monte Aero coupe definitely has the better profile. They made many more of them in 1987. IIRC the 86's were finished off site. The 87s were actually all produced at the factory.
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Maybe I saw a 1987. There were a few thousand built of those.
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Some of the SS graphics and trim, to me, in hindsight, seem 'boy racer' for the body style, but I do like the Aerocoupe feature.
I remember black SS's of that year with subtle gold pinstriping, instead of the common red. I have to assume the ones with gold pinstriping probably had a brown/beige interior.
Making my first visit to the Gilmore Museum campus this weekend, while the weather is decent. Wife is away for the weekend so I figure the timing is perfect.
I recall driving my friend's 85 Monte SS, black on red with T-tops, lowish mileage (maybe 50-60K) at the time. Sounded good anyway.
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In hindsight do you wish you stuck with the Monte?
Only if I'd kept it thirty years or something.
A month after I got the Celebrity (I'd ordered it and it took three months, a long story) I moved back to the Cleveland area, which is snowy, so FWD helped.
I ordered it in the same dark plum color that Monte SS pictured above was, without the ubiquitous silver two-tone below the side moldings that so many of them had (a friend called that 'the truck two-tone'). It was a two-door; square as a brick. It had the aluminum wheels (think Citation X-11) and Goodyear Eagle tires. I ordered the instruments, the 2.8 MFI V6 that was a big part of the press-darling 6000STE, and the plum-colored cloth bucket-seat interior. I did like the car but it had no third or fourth gears at 37K miles. Chevy put in a remanufactured unit for $100 (powertrain warranty then was 24K). I liked the car. I traded it on a bright red Beretta GT as soon as the '89's were out. I was a bachelor with money to burn then.
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We've discussed how I have an irrational appreciation for the '78 Malibu Classic coupe, properly-equipped. I guess because they're rarer today than the '73-77's, and that to me they're about the perfect size and use of space, I could also like a '78 Cutlass Salon coupe, yes, the aero one; an underdog for sure. It's very hard to find a stock, clean, well-maintained '78 G-body though IMHO. I know there were some questionable engineering decisions made in the name of weight-saving and 'new think', but I think a lot of that has been overcome on any cars I could buy today, LOL.
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