Vintage Snapshot: A New Monte Carlo Gets a Nose Job
– Posted on February 16, 2019
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It looks like the ” more vintage” C10 pickup got the worse end of that encounter
With the ‘72 Monte Carlo, the clothes, Plymouth Fury, and Schwinn Stingray this photo looks like it’s from 1971-1974.
Hope everybody was OK!
Interesting that you don’t see a spiderweb of cracks from the drivers head hitting the montes windshield. Could the driver be 1:100 who wore seat belts?
Safer bet is that the Monte was parked and unoccupied.
If that is the case, how did the pickup get over there without taking out the sign and damaging the grass and trees? It seems most likely to me that the pickup was coming down the street to the right toward the street where the Monte Carlo is now parked. It must have been going pretty fast through what appears to be a residential neighborhood.
Good point. And now I look closer, I think I see what might be a shoulder harness hanging down from its anchor point (looks like a line roughly connecting the inside rearview mirror to the steering wheel in this pic). Which, wow, someone at that time using not only the lap belt but the shoulder harness was a rare person indeed!
They either “braced themselves” or, perhaps, were “thrown clear”. 🙂
The Monte Carlo front end length now matches its Chevelle cousin.
I’m glad I finished my coffee before reading your so-astute observation.
Well, so much for one of the 9 Monte Carlos in the world not equipped with Chevy Rally Wheels. 😊 Or It’s nice to see what the world really looked like when these were new.
With as much empty space as these had between the grille and the radiator, I wonder if there was damage to any critical component. It doesn’t look like there is a pool of anti freeze under the front of the Monte, but then again the photo cuts off a little soon at the bottom to be sure.
I was shadowing my brother on a mobile diagnostics “tour” through some shops in Staten Island. I got to hear an epic rant from an Italian American body shop owner about the complexity of repairing modern cars with things like adaptive cruise radars and such. An $8k front end job on a ’16 Explorer ended up costing $6k in parts and outsourced diagnostics to get the radar system recalibrated (turns out Ford gave him the wrong module initially). By the age of the guy, I’d guess he was just getting started in the business in simpler times when he’d be repairing Monte Carlos like this.