Nice 72 Monaco

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BlueVenger22

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Not normally a fan of big wheels/rubber band tires, but I think this looks pretty sweet. I wish they would have fixed the wonky headlight door before they made the video..really bugs me.
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I can live with the wheels. But the tint and Shaker hood....no.
 
This is the guy that ended up buying my 1970 Chrysler Newport Custom when I sold it on ebay. He said he was going to feature it on one of his "Big Muscle" shows, but I don't think he ever did. He just drove it a lot (he insisted everything work well, and that is why he bought mine - even the a/c worked fine) but fortunately he never put it on his show or slammed it as far as I know. I heard he sold it about a year later, and now I have lost track of it.

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I think, strangely enough, the shaker looks right, and it is done well. Road wheels and the proper front end hight and this one would actually be attractive.
 
2 guys talking authoritively about a car but weren't even there back then.
STFU.

Till the day I die that droopy headlight cover is going to annoy me.
 
No shakers on a B or a C, the shaker doesn't look proportional to the car, FAIL!
 
polara71 said:
I think the shaker looks out of place but well done, the wheels ...epic fail
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I couldn't bring myself to watch the video... picture looks like someone with some talent did the install on the hood

commando1 said:
Till the day I die that droopy headlight cover is going to annoy me.
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Can not imagine why that talent would allow the cover to look like that...

It's really not a good look IMO
 
I always find it interesting to see people's priorities when they do a build. The bad headlight door and k-mart floor mats make me wonder what attention to detail items you might find. Or of someone who just bought a nice car that someone else had done the work and all the current owner did was throw some goofy wheels on it. The shaker hood was done really well and I want it to work, but it really looks not quite right from an overall styling perspective, as do the wheels.
 
The tint would have to go, the wheels would have to go, the droopy headlight door would have to be fixed, but while am totally not a fan of projectiles through the top of the hood, that shaker hood looks like it was done well enough that I would probably let it stay as it would be too expensive to put it back the way it should be, I suspect.
 
Don't like it BUT....It draws attention to C-Bodies which isn't a bad thing.
 
The lowered stance is really working for the car. I wish the trend of 20"+ghetto dub wheels on vintage cars would die out for good! And as mentioned, the shaker hood although well done from an installation standpoint is a total fail on this car.
 
I like that car. I'm not a purist, so it doesn't bother me that it's been modified slightly. What does bother me too is that headlight door. It just detracts from what is otherwise pretty damn nice, IMO.

When I go to car shows, I'm always interested to see others ideas on how they wanted to build their cars. Sometimes I'll see an atrocity, but most of the time I see beautiful creations.

It's a big car, so those wheels aren't all that big. If they were 26", I'd call it an atrocity. If it were my car, I wouldn't have bothered with the Shaker, but now that it's there, in my opinion, it needs an engine under it that can justify it. :)
 
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