Recent content by Turbo301

So weird that he took it through a car wash - with the top in that shape. Suggests to me the interior must be rough, thought he body looks pretty solid. I think these Monaco convertibles are pretty rare, no? Not many made.

I just posted what he showed; feel free to contact him for any other info. This isn't a car I'm interested in :).

1969 Dodge Monaco Convertible Text: "Needs restoration 318 v8 Barn find does not run. Needs to be trailered. Best offer"

Yikes, the bumps under that top are grotesque. They remind me of the "body mods" that people get to have horns and such to look like a lizard or the devil or something...

They're not really sporty cars, though... The skirts on these do look odd, though, because the fender line is already so heavily skirted: if the skirts went right to the rocker line, so you got a constant fuselage silhouette, I could see it, but when they bump-up and add very little effect, I'm...

Dang, didn't even notice that. That's a new one. These things need all the back-seat knee room you can get, so taking that up with speakers is... odd. And to run wiring to them that can withstand the seat being constantly tilted, it just doesn't seem worth the effort.

That's a cool car, though that tach is tacky (pardon the pun).

Kinda silly that they're offering it as a "roller" but yet they have the original engine in overhaul and will sell it with the car as an option... who WOULDN'T want the original engine with the car? Maybe their gas costs so much they'd drop-in a 1.5L four or something for you? :lol:

Not all of us can afford or want a convertible :).

Ah yes, the every-old-car-with-a-V8-must-be-a-muscle-car treatment! Always appropriate for a 4-door hardtop :BangHead:. The mags and white letters are unfortunate enough...

True, the back of the sedan's roofline is best. I like the 2-door hardtop's the least, and the 4-door hardtop somewhere in the middle. It really makes one wonder why Chrysler did so many rooflines and rear glass treatments! Just pick one :/.

Yeah, roofline is a personal preference; I always think that these cars as 2-doors look a bit "stunted" in the greenhouse; the 4-door hardtop lengthens that and makes it look a bit better proportioned, IMO.

I don't know why someone wouldn't want a 4-door hardtop of a big car like this: there's nothing "sporty" about a 2-door that's this big, and it's so much easier to get in and out of a 4-door (the back, that is). When it's a hardtop, you get the full open-side effect with all the windows down...

The real question is why are people pulling numbers-matching engines from decent, intact cars and putting them in other cars where, obviously, the numbers won't match? The answer is, of course, that the "other" cars are worth more non-matching than the donor cars are, matching; that's what I...

I don't see that logic: if you have a '70 Charger with a 440 from a '70 Fury in it, how is that any better than getting a 440 from a '70 Winnebago? I agree that a service engine is likely better altogether, but IMO the end result is still a non-numbers-matching car.