For Sale 1974 Dodge Monaco Coupe on Barn Finds and Craigs

[Pete Kaczmarski]

Sure looks clean and worth a call.....

Kansas Farm Car: 1974 Dodge Monaco Brougham

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Super Rare 1974 Dodge Monaco Coupe!

Dodge made approximately 15,000 Monaco Coupes for the 1974 model year, and less than 5,000 were Broughams!

Never wrecked! 100% Complete! Excellent Restoration Candidate!

57,500 Original Miles Big Block 400 engine!, 2bbl carb, A727 transmission, power steering, power brakes.

Original A/C car, needs charged.

The car sat for a long time on a Kansas farm outside in the elements before being brought to Chicago. While the car starts, runs, and goes into gear, I WILL NOT LET THE CAR GO ON A TEST DRIVE (either brake booster needs replaced or vacuum leak).

Minor rust in the usual places for these Monaco's. The worst being the passenger side quarter panel and trunk pocket. The marriage line on the roof needs a little attention as well. Floors and main trunk solid.

All glass in good shape! No cracks, stars, scratches, or de-lamination.

Dash pad in excellent condition! No warping, no cracks

The 1974 Dodge Monaco is in high demand for movie accurate Bluesmobile conversions. Just add a 1975-77 Royal body and this front end and you have a Bluesmobile! Sell the rest!

$3000 FIRM. Price IS FIRM. Cash Only, No Trades.

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[detmatt]

The 1974 Dodge Monaco is in high demand for movie accurate Bluesmobile conversions. Just add a 1975-77 Royal body and this front end and you have a Bluesmobile! Sell the rest

 

[jason99]

Firm price must actually be firm, because this one was posted to FB a few weeks ago at the same price.

I wish I had space for a second car right now, I wouldn't mind swapping the Brougham interior into my base.

 

[MarPar]

The 1974 Dodge Monaco is in high demand for movie accurate Bluesmobile conversions. Just add a 1975-77 Royal body and this front end and you have a Bluesmobile! Sell the rest!

 

[1970FuryConv]

Some pics from today. I've been messaging with Brian, the owner, on Facebook. He is advertising there to part the car, so if anyone has interest, better PM me quickly. He says that Friday 10/12 is the last day it will be together.

Brian's comments on our #1 enemy:
Unfortunately it is not rust free, it needs right rear quarter needs patched, along with the trunk pocket.
The vinyl roof rotted away years before I got her so it let water in through the marriage line.

Drivers side might be able to be saved, only showing pinholes at this point, but you never know.
Trunk is soft in spots because of the moisture and rubber mat.
Rest of the car is solid though.
Car still has brake problem
Brian seems like a good guy from what I can tell, but he's been trying to sell the car for the past 3-4 months and has had zero interest. Maybe someone will save it in its last 48 hours.

 

[jason99]

Part of me wonders if I should buy this car as a whole for what he wants. My 74 coupe project that I bought a month before this one showed up has much worse sheet metal than this, a smallbock, and a base interior. If I had this I'd have a better place to start for all the body that needs to be done, a path to a big block, a better interior, and pretty much every other random part I'd need to complete what I have.

I could also see buying it and putting the front clip on a 75-77 four door that I'm not turning into a Bluesmobile, as that is what I've been looking for for ages, but is near enough to impossible to find.

Sadly neither of those options are really really 'saving it'.

 

[LocuMob]

Offer him $2k and do with it what you want, you're not going to ruin it. It will become a mess for him to deal with if it doesn't sell, and take a while for him to get the money he wants, sonit might not even seem like he's getting anything for it.

 

[BLIMP]

I've talked to him also, dang vinyl roofs!

 

[jason99]

Yeah, vinyl tops are tough. Mine looks like that in the corners, but better near the top.

 

[Stern70]

My fury was a victim as well!

 

[1970FuryConv]

Yeah, vinyl tops are tough. Mine looks like that in the corners, but better near the top.

Hi Jason
How are you planning to fix your c-pillar and dutchman panel?
Thanks, Ben

 

[1970FuryConv]

Some more from Brian

I put her on jack stands today and got under her with a hose. Wash 20 years of Kansas clay out of the wheel wells and underneath.
Shockingly solid.

 

[1970FuryConv]

 

[jason99]

Hi Jason
How are you planning to fix your c-pillar and dutchman panel?
Thanks, Ben

I'm not 100% sure the dutchman panel is shot, but I have no idea what/how the c pillar is getting fixed. I'm still working on getting my car running/driving so I can have someone with body skills take a look at it.

 

[1970FuryConv]

@jason99

Created an album on my public fb page, @thechicagobluesmobile
156 photos
This one already runs and has 400 BB & an awesome dash. Much less work before the bodywork. Just saying, you could use your car for parts.

 

[jason99]

@jason99

Created an album on my public fb page, @thechicagobluesmobile
156 photos
This one already runs and has 400 BB & an awesome dash. Much less work before the bodywork. Just saying, you could use your car for parts.

Thanks for the additional pictures. I wish I knew the right way to go with this.

Looks like it would cost me about $1,000 to get the one for sale hauled from Chicago to Atlanta.

Here are some shots of my current car that I bought for $1,800 maybe a month before the one in question here popped up.

74 Monaco Coupe
Cleaning up floorpans/trunkpan

 

[Carmine]

(I'm not weighing in on one vs. other)

That roof rust is some of the easiest rust to deal with you'll encounter on a car... of course providing it hasn't allowed the inner or rocker/trunk to rot, but the remains of the vinyl probably helped keep water out for a long while. Window removal should be subbed out to a pro.

Just more/less flat and 90 degree metal that's in an easy place to work. Your finishing skills don't even have to be that good, for if you put a good coat of paint under the new top (which the factory did not) it needn't be perfect. It won't rust again in our lifetime.

It would be a shame for this to kill the car... and although I find the color "interesting", you've pretty much got a license to repaint however you want, including the beautiful copper color from that year.

 

[jason99]

(I'm not weighing in on one vs. other)

That roof rust is some of the easiest rust to deal with you'll encounter on a car... of course providing it hasn't allowed the inner or rocker/trunk to rot, but the remains of the vinyl probably helped keep water out for a long while. Window removal should be subbed out to a pro.

Just more/less flat and 90 degree metal that's in an easy place to work. Your finishing skills don't even have to be that good, for if you put a good coat of paint under the new top (which the factory did not) it needn't be perfect. It won't rust again in our lifetime.

It would be a shame for this to kill the car... and although I find the color "interesting", you've pretty much got a license to repaint however you want, including the beautiful copper color from that year.

Is there any way to tell if there is that inner rocker rot you talk about? How much pause does the condition of the passenger side front and rear lower quarter give you as well as the passenger side rear quarter near the window?

Is straight sheet metal like this vs what I have on my car likely going to end up offsetting the prices of this car when it comes time to face body shop costs?

 

[Carmine]

To see the extent of damage from the C-pillar holes, you would ideally remove the rear seat cushion and door panels, then look at the floor and inside the rocker. The lower quarter obviously has rust, but they can become rusty from the outside-in as well, or the internal rust can come from elsewhere.

I personally have no experience bringing something like this to a bodyshop. I've only dealt with issues like this myself. My gut-feeling says either car would be about as "welcome" as ebola in a refugee camp at any legit bodyshop, therefore priced accordingly. The people who typically would accept it, will just high-five each other as soon as you turn your back; only to convert your deposit and car into meth. But I'm cynical.

One thing I can say is that your dark blue car looks like it was a poorly treated, low-option beater. This one was shown love, then abandoned. For me, these cars need the extra "brougham-esq" bling to be interesting. Personally I'd morph the two into whatever I would have ordered in 1974, building on the best body-in-white between the two, upto and including the subframes. But that's very intense, requiring skill and physical space.

Whether you or the current owner decide to part out the remains will be a high-effort, low-return operation. The header panel will go quick, everything else will take forever.

Speaking from $2500 formal Monaco experience.

 

[jason99]

Thanks for the perspective. Perhaps I've simply lost my mind and when I see a Monaco about to get parted I get sad and want to do something about it.

As the tasks mount on my 74 Coupe project, I've been queitly wondering if the best personal course of action for me is to find a reasonably priced 75-77 four door, Brougham, with a big block and stick the front end of my 74 Coupe on it. Maybe that's the most 'reasonable' way to get what I want in the end anyways, which is a four door (not cop car), Brougham Monaco, with exposed headlights.