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Monte Carlo 40th anniversary special issue
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70mcarlo
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| Joined: 03/10
Posted: 03/27/10 08:43 AM
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As a long-time subscriber (fifteen years), and an even longer reader, I am writing to complain about your magazine’s lack of coverage on the Monte Carlo. It is truly rare that a photo and/or heaven forbid, a feature article appears within your pages. My complaint is not the first, and your typical response has been “we just don’t see very many nice Monte Carlos” or “whatever works on a Chevelle would apply to the Monte Carlo as well.” As to the first, there are several well-known Monte Carlo clubs, and you could contact them for possible feature cars, or actually send someone to cover one of their annual meets. The second response is disingenuous at best, and could be applied to any Chevrolet product. What generated this post, however, is that while you celebrate important milestones for other Chevy models, I have yet to see an acknowledgement of the 40th anniversary of the Monte Carlo’s introduction in September 1969 as part of the 1970 lineup within your pages. For other models, an important anniversary is usually enough to generate a special issue devoted to that model, something that has never occurred in the case of the Monte Carlo. Since you haven’t covered any of the Monte Carlo’s previous anniversaries, I am not surprised. I would argue that in terms of high-performance, the Monte Carlo is one of Chevrolet’s most important models. Besides the Corvette, can you name another that has a longer history of racing success? The Monte Carlo is the car that got Chevrolet back into NASCAR in the early seventies, and it went on to become the model with the most wins ever in that series. By the late 1990s and early 2000s, it remained the only car on the showroom floor that actually resembled what was on the track. The Monte Carlo was also used extensively for short-track racing all around the country. In my own neck of the woods, parts for first generation Montes disappeared from the junkyards 30 years ago for that very reason. So how about a Monte Carlo special issue or a series of articles dealing with the history of the model given both its longevity as well as the fact that 2010 is the 40th anniversary of the model’s introduction? Given the realities of magazine publishing schedules, you’re running out of time.
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adam696
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Posted: 09/01/10 03:06 AM
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Its great to know about the magazine.I haven't read any of Monte Carlo magazines.But now would like to read few.
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