(This is almost what my new 82 T-tops looks like) The fifth and most recent Monte I've bought is my 1982 T-top! It has had quite a bit of work done to it in the past.  But still does need a little fixing up.  But it looks really good!  I paid $300.00 and my .38 cal pistol for it.  It is sweet and I hope to be driving it soon.  It has no motor and tranny, but I am thinking of dropping in my 350 and 2004R tranny.  All I need is for the guy to either get the title or file for a lost title.  I have always wanted a T-top and I just couldn't resist buying it!  It even has a Grant GT steering wheel and 4 really good tires on it!  I lucked out!  Check it out on the T-tops page! It's gonna take some attention and some time, but it will be sweet! ~It's gonna be SWEET~ s The first Monte Carlo I've bought was my white 1978 with red interior. It was my second car and was in real good shape.  It still is!  I paid $425.00 for it.  A Steal considering the tranny lasted six years.  (It was behind the 400 small block in my 81 Monte for five years.)  The motor was a stock 305 and ran really good, but it is deceased now! I ran a 229 V-6 out of my 1980 Malibu in it for a bit. (That motor has been in three of my cars and still runs!) The car now sits in my back yard and waits for it's resurrection! IT WILL LIVE AGAIN SOMEDAY! The second Monte Carlo I've bought was my 1981.  I paid $900.00 for her.  It's maroon with maroon interior(kinda rare)!  It had a 229cid V6 in it that barely pulled it down the road.  When the V6 died I brought out the beast within and put in a small block 400 bored .030 over with an RV cam!  Can you say Holly $#!&?  I loved tearin' up the streets with her!  It had so much torque that the frame cracked behind the drivers side rear wheel well.  I could light em up and the whole back end of the car would bounce up and down off the ground. It made cool little black skip marks on the pavement! :)  I went through so many tires I can't even count em all!  In my opinion, the Chevy small block 400 is the most awesome motor Chevy has ever produced!  What can I say, I love torque!  The 400 was in the 81 for five years(but is now in my brown 78)!  The 81 is the very best winter set up I have ever had!  I put four studded snow tires on it and two or three sand bags in the trunk and I was set! I used to pull trucks out of the ditch with it!  And....this is Montana!  The 400 is (still) pushin' about 300 horsepower or maybe a bit more! I have taken out so many cars and trucks with my 81!  It had a huge reputation as a total sleeper!  She was my baby! Too bad she didn't look like she did the first day I got her!  I had less than 100 miles on the car and I hit a deer the same day I bought it.  The passenger front fender was bashed in and the door was messed up.  I was mad!  I drove her around like that for a while and then I was hit by an old guy!  He took out my drivers side rear quarter panel.  The money  I received from his insurance company was used for the MIGHTY 400!  So she looked like a beater but you better of thought twice...cause she could hold her own!  :) YOU WOULD NEVER WANNA CROSS HER!!! (I finally broke the tranny that came out of my white 78 after five years. I put in the 350 tranny that my uncle and I built.  That lasted about two weeks. I later found out that the motor mounts were both broke and the motor was moving so much from the torque and the tranny just took a beating! Anyway I finally gave in and decided to put the 400in my brown 78 and start a differend project)!  The 78 went through two trannys in less that two months, and I wasn't even hard on em! After further investigation I found out that the flexplate was warped! ~LOOK OUT~ The third Monte Carlo I've bought was my camel metallic brown 1978! My friend found it sitting in an alley behind a guys house!  He told me about it and we went to talk to the guy.  We both pulled up to the guy's house in our Monte Carlo's!  He was walking out of the house and said, "You Boys looking for a Monte Carlo to buy"?  "Yes I said", knowing I was soon to become the proud owner of yet another Chevy Monte Carlo!  He sold the car to me for  $200.00.  The best deal I have ever had on a car!  He was the original owner.  He custom ordered it in 1978. It is Dark camel metallic brown with a very nice light camel, or saddle tan vinyl interior.  He had true dual exhaust put on in 1978.  The car was, and still is in awesome shape!  It had 100,100 miles on the original Buick 231cid V6.  I towed it home, did a few things to it, and it ran and drove great!  With only 105 horsepower it was kinda slow.....(but still fun to drive)!  I put it up for sale for $1900.00 thinking I could make huge profit from it!  But Idecided that no profit is worth the car!  I put 18,000 miles on till the motor finally quit!  A piston cracked in two and lodged in the cylinder!  It was fun to take that motor apart! I couldn't have gotten a better deal! I'll probably keep it forever!  I decided I wanted a beastly V8 for her! She has awesome potential, and was a great candidate for a mean small block Chevy power plant and some restoration! So I put my mighty 400 small block in and a different 350 tranny! Oh man.....It is like it was just meant to be! My 78 and my 400 finally together....I knew It would happen eventually! But It has been through two trannys in two months.  I don't know what is wrong, but it has to do with the way the motor is mounted in the car.  Or the flex plate is bent or something! The 400 is gonna come out for an inspection before another tranny goes in her!  Hopefully I can get her done soon! I am having a tranny rebuilt and I will replace the flexplate. I am also gonna mount an external tranny cooler just because. This project is gonna require some attention and some cash! BUT, AFTER ALL...IT IS A CLASSIC!!! ~LOOK OUT~   The fourth Monte Carlo I've bought was my 1985 SS(Super Sport). These legendary cars were built specially for NASCAR! It is silver with a maroon interior.  I was so lucky to come upon this treasure!  I paid $2000.00 for what has always been my dream car! It was in awesome shape!  The interior was and still is immaculate! There is no cracks in the dashboard at all.  No rips in the seats and everything has been very well taken care of.  It was so hard to believe that the car had 158,000 miles on it!  It still had the stock High Output 305 and 2004R tranny in it.  It had headers and true dual 3 inch exhaust with flowmasters and no catalytic converters(SHHHH). I never thought a 305 could be so bad ass!  It moved the car pretty quickly!  I loved it but I knew the car needed more!  I put a brand new rebuilt 350 in her.  She deserved it!  The 350 is a 4 bolt main block, is bored .030 over, has 9.5:1 compression pistons, a Blue Racer RV cam, Edlebrock Performer RPM high rise intake manifold, and a 750cfm Edlebrock carb and chrome air cleaner!  I have a set of FlowTech headers to replace the old Black Jack headers with.  I hope to do something with the heads soon.  I want to take the 58cc crossfire heads from my H.O. 305 and have them machined to 2.02's with 58cc chambers.  I've heared they kick ass!  I left the 200 4R tranny in even though it had been making noise and wanting to blow since I bought the car!  It lasted a good 7000 miles from the time I bought the car and half of that was behind the 350.  I guess I just wanted to see how long the old tranny could last.  It was tough....but finally snapped!  I have a newer TH350 with a shift kit ready to pop in whenever I get around to it!  But I might end up putting it in my 81 for the winter!  She has awesome aluminum American Spirit 15x8 wheels and 235/60/R15 Firestone Firehawk SS10 tires to hold her up!  Oh.........I almost forgot about the stereo system!  It has a Pioneer Mosfet 45Wx4 DEH-P2000 Super Tuner III ECQ CD Deck!  The amp is a little Rockford Fosgate 100 watter.  I left the stock front speakers in.  But sitting in boxes in the back seat are two 6x9 Boston Acoustic 220 watt bad boys!  Boston Acoustic speakers are so damn awesome!  I do plan to build a better stereo system. But the motor and body of the car come first!  UPDATE-I just added two 8 inch kicker subs in seperate boxes to my back seat!  I connected them to the 6x9's, which are connected to the amp!  It sounds damn good and has quite a bit of bass.  But I wish I had two sets of preouts on my stereo!  I guess its time for a crossover!  I just borrowed the stereo to put in my brown 78 for some real tunes....and will probably put it in the 81 for the winter!  The SS is gonna have to wait till spring to be driven again anyway! Unfortunately, I wrecked my SS.  I ran it into a guard rail showing off to a girl!  I think it was worth it though.  It kinda brought her and I closer together!  But, that's a different story!  She loves my car too(who wouldn't)! I bashed her up pretty good!  The passenger side front fender was mangled, the front nose was wayyyyyyy beyond repair, and the rear passenger side quarter panel needs a fixin'!  She will be back very soon though!  If any car is worth the time, money, and effort.......she is!  Oh.....the stock H.O. 305 hasn't given up yet!  My dad and I put it in his work van and it will probably see 200,000 miles, or maybe more! I quess I got one of the good(long lasting) SS Montes! ~THE SS WILL BE BACK......I PROMISE!!!~ My friend Mat bought his 1987 Monte SS 20 days after I bought my SS! It is silver with gray/blue interior and had the stock H.O. 305 and the 200 4R tranny had been rebuilt.  It has factory tinted windows and Iroc wheels.  This car is so sleek, but I like mine better!  We used to cruise side by side on main street every Friday and Saturday night!  It was a blast!  The cops didn't like us much though! :)  They couldn't tell us apart!  How often do you see two silver SS Montes driving beside each other?  I thought it was awesome!  It was almost like our cars were meant to be together!  One night Mat decided to try and race my SS with my 350 in it!  He tried a little too hard and threw a piston through the block!  The 350 was just too much for it! :) He was very devastated!  Then after staying up all night drinking, a friend and I went for a drive in my car.  She likes our Montes!  We drove around for quite a while talking.  Then I decided to show off a little and hit a guard rail.  So both of our Montes were taken out on the same night.  I thought we would both be back out tearin' up the streets again soon after....but my SS still needs more fixin'.  Mat has put a mild 350 bored .030 over in his and it is back better than ever!  A year later....mine still waits!  Considering both of our Montes went out on the same night, I thought they would probably come back at the same time too!  But I have other cars to keep up and things that go with life to take care of!  Mat beat me to it!  Mat also has a 78 Monte that was his first!  It has a 305(not a High Output).  It is light brownish gold and is in pretty decent shape and has great potential!  A friend of Mat's wrecked his SS a bit for him, so now he has to give her some more attention!  In the meantime he drives an 80's Firebird!  The car is just sweet!  But its a 2.8 V-6! MAT'S SS WILL BE BACK! Unfortunately, I am financially unable to fix up my SS right now!  I would love to be able to drive her down the street with pride again! Hopefully next summer!  If anyone can donate a $dollar$ or two, or maybe even a few for the beast to live again, I would greatly appreciate it!  I would post your names and or web page links on my page!  Please help if you can! This car is my life!  Or if you can help Mat and donate a dollar or two so he can upgrade his SS, that would be awesome too!  I will post before and after pics of my SS as I fix her up!  So keep checkin back! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN!!! Or look out and check this out! ~LOOK OUT~ dustin@digisys.net Continue to: Montes! CAR INFO!     ABOUT ME!     SS PLANS! FORDS SUCK!     MY POEMS! SS MONTE INFO!     OZZY!     COLLAGE! UPDATES!     Project 78!     CuStOm MoNtEs! *NEW*  GS 750!  *NEW* T-Top Monte!