Poll: Which '70? (12/8/2024)

So I decided to make it look even "meaner" by lowering it a bit. I don't like exaggerated lowriders, but this isn't really a "lowrider", it's just a little more "settled down" on its wheels to hug the road better.

The Torino is very nice but I still slightly prefer the Monte Carlo.

@graeme-ogg, very nice. I'm betting a more open wheel well at the rear would make a difference as well.

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So I decided to make it look even "meaner" by lowering it a bit. I don't like exaggerated lowriders, but this isn't really a "lowrider", it's just a little more "settled down" on its wheels to hug the road better.

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Sorry!  I like the original better.  

The Monti is a personal luxury class car and the Torino was a mid-size Muscle Car. In my old age I like personal luxury, BUT muscle still wins for me.  Ford over Chevy in most cases for me.

@georgeschire Fair enough! It was just an experiment.

MC w/o v/t for me today. I've never cared for that sweeping roof line on the Torino. Too much trouble to back up and you've got quite a big blind spot. I'm all about visibility when driving or parking.

Steve 

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The Monti is a personal luxury class car and the Torino was a mid-size Muscle Car. In my old age I like personal luxury, BUT muscle still wins for me.  Ford over Chevy in most cases for me.

Agree to an extent. ...but Ford did not offer a personal luxury class car except for the T-bird which is priced much higher than the MC and it contained many more luxury features. I could have gone MC vs Cougar but I wanted to maintain Chevrolet to Ford comparison.  To compensate I selected a MC with a 454 engine to bring it closer to the performance level of Ford Torino.  The world is not always black and white, it's sometime gray.

@sizedoesmatter 

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@sizedoesmatter   Gray most of the time.

I'm with John on this one. The Monte Carlo was hard to categorize in '70-'72. It didn't have the cachet of the full-on personal luxury cars but was not muscular enough to go up against the true muscle cars. In '70, the Ford Torino was a good competitor in price and size. Equipped with similar sized engines and the right trannies, they went head to head. Most folks saw the MC as a bit more of a boulevard cruiser than the Chevelle. The Chevy offering really was ahead of its time. It was the first of the moderately priced personal luxury-size coupes, a sub-genre of the big, brawny premium offerings. Cars like the Ford Elite, Gran Torino, AMC Matador coupe, 4th Generation Dodge Charger followed in its wake.     

I see the 70-72 Monte Carlo competing in the same class as the 69-72 Grand Prix.

@jkuvakas 

Excellent synopsis of the car - especially as made between 70 and 72 and also agree with Pete, above.

For 1975, when I bought ours, it had a clear and concise category. It was for my wife's use and our daughter, then 6 years old, categorized it perfectly. She named it the "Mommy Carlo".

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I see the 70-72 Monte Carlo competing in the same class as the 69-72 Grand Prix.

@sizedoesmatter 

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