EL CAMINO Mexican market El Camino equipped with 350

[KCP]

Well, visual inspection is not the problem at all. Casting numbers are more or less unknown here anyway. Problem is, If they catch you doing 150 in a car that should so maximum 100 you have some explaining to do. The 350 I have is a mid 70's 4-bolt.

 

[kornball426]

Well, visual inspection is not the problem at all. Casting numbers are more or less unknown here anyway. Problem is, If they catch you doing 150 in a car that should so maximum 100 you have some explaining to do. The 350 I have is a mid 70's 4-bolt.

Well since G body cars (as far as I know) in America all have an 85 MPH speedometer... Just say you were doing 85. 😎

 

[PBGBodyFan]

I get the feeling there are a lot of "but in Mexico..." G-Body myths floating around out there. I still have my doubts about the legendary Mexican Monte, and now an El Camino version?

Doubt the Mexican Monte SS? Curious how come, I’ve been around MCSS’s pretty deep for 20 years now, no doubt it’s legit in my mind. Would have to be a large consipiracy for that to be made up 🙂

 

[KCP]

Well since G body cars (as far as I know) in America all have an 85 MPH speedometer... Just say you were doing 85. 😎

Been there, done that. All I got is a nice ticket🙈

 

[kornball426]

Been there, done that. All I got is a nice ticket🙈

Been there, done that. All I got is a nice ticket🙈

Ehh... My Jeep has no working speedometer at all... I just drive it wherever and don't worry about it.

 

[GP403]

Doubt the Mexican Monte SS? Curious how come, I’ve been around MCSS’s pretty deep for 20 years now, no doubt it’s legit in my mind. Would have to be a large consipiracy for that to be made up 🙂

I've seen photos of *one* . On this site, I'd have to dig it up again but I don't think there was any documentation surrounding it, just some photos of a single Monte with a 350 / 4 speed and a Pontiac dash. For it to be legit in my book there needs to be something else. A window sticker, a build sheet, RPO stickers, some internal communications, photos of it on the showroom floor... Otherwise its just one guy's car. I need to go back and review that particular thread I guess.

 

[PBGBodyFan]

Gotcha. I've seen somewhere in the 5-8 range online, same dash/seats/interior, some have had the side mirrors changed, repainted, etc and there was the guy who e-mailed me in the early 2000's with a copy of the brochure Chevrolet made for it.

http://montecarloss.com/MexicanSS.html

And the brochure that I posted on my Geocities site back then (yep, Geocities!) that is long gone. And sadly I don't have the pictures saved anywhere. Hopefully someone out there has one and they can be saved properly.

http://www.geocities.com/paul023.geo/MexicanMCSS.html

 

[KCP]

my Geocities site

Man, that Monte must've been brand new ending up on Geocities🙈

 

[pagrunt]

Here's a Youtube video of a Mexico market commercial for the Monte Carlo SS

 

[GP403]

Gotcha. I've seen somewhere in the 5-8 range online, same dash/seats/interior, some have had the side mirrors changed, repainted, etc and there was the guy who e-mailed me in the early 2000's with a copy of the brochure Chevrolet made for it.

http://montecarloss.com/MexicanSS.html

And the brochure that I posted on my Geocities site back then (yep, Geocities!) that is long gone. And sadly I don't have the pictures saved anywhere. Hopefully someone out there has one and they can be saved properly.

http://www.geocities.com/paul023.geo/MexicanMCSS.html

OK. Now we're getting somewhere. I may start to believe this now. I was able to pull the pix from that page from archive.org and I'll post them up in the media gallery. Between that and another site I found with an actual build sheet, complete with LM1 and M67 codes....