1augapfel
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About 10 years ago I was visiting family near Phoenix, AZ and decided to do a little "rust free sheet metal" searching for my project cars. I visited salvage yards around the Phoenix airport and also Desert Valley Auto Parts.
One of the cars I stumbled into was a thrashed and trashed 71 Monaco that really fascinated me. Look at the fender tags of this car. Can you picture this thing as a new car? It must have been amazing. Almost certainly special ordered.
71 Polaras/Monacos hold a special place in my heart as one of my early cars was a 71 Polara Brougham 4DHT. Mine was a gunmetal blue example with a black vinyl top and black cloth interior. A funeral home was selling it and it was in excellent condition when I bought it. It had a lot of options like the top level stereo, power windows, power bench seat, power trunk lid release, a/c, the lamp package with door ajar and low fuel indicators, etc. Oh, it also had those beautiful 20# diecast wheelcovers that were first available for 1969. Man did I love that car but I sold it to buy a 1970 Imperial LeBaron 4DHT. The Imperial was a beautiful luxobarge but not nearly so much fun to drive as the Polara. I still have the Imperial but I wish I still had the Polara. Oh well.
Anyway, here are shots of the Desert Valley 71 Monaco:
One of the cars I stumbled into was a thrashed and trashed 71 Monaco that really fascinated me. Look at the fender tags of this car. Can you picture this thing as a new car? It must have been amazing. Almost certainly special ordered.
71 Polaras/Monacos hold a special place in my heart as one of my early cars was a 71 Polara Brougham 4DHT. Mine was a gunmetal blue example with a black vinyl top and black cloth interior. A funeral home was selling it and it was in excellent condition when I bought it. It had a lot of options like the top level stereo, power windows, power bench seat, power trunk lid release, a/c, the lamp package with door ajar and low fuel indicators, etc. Oh, it also had those beautiful 20# diecast wheelcovers that were first available for 1969. Man did I love that car but I sold it to buy a 1970 Imperial LeBaron 4DHT. The Imperial was a beautiful luxobarge but not nearly so much fun to drive as the Polara. I still have the Imperial but I wish I still had the Polara. Oh well.
Anyway, here are shots of the Desert Valley 71 Monaco:
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