@@1nvisible1 *DOT code will say expired... so... yes and no. True concourse collectors will be happy. But someone buying a car, will see "needs tires".*
IF you decide to replace the tires, SAVE the old ones in storage. They are part of the one-off pace car that this is. You sell them with the car in the future.
The presentation in this video is awesome, great job splicing in old Brickyard 400 clips into it. What an amazing car, really happy GM didn't scrap their cars because those are a huge part of American and motorsports history.
So every race has a car with some stickers slapped on. How is this a huge part of Motorsport history. Stickers or a painted car is not huge in motor sports history. The winning car perhaps but this is not.
@@jamescook8940Because these were driven by celebrities and used in historic races. Most of these were paint jobs as Tyler pointed out, not stickers.
I had to laugh because as soon as he said he bought the cheapest one and panned down the line briefly, I instantly thought "He got one of the 1990s Monte Carlos." I was right.
I was at that race, so I've actually seen this car on the track. The clip at the beginning brought back a few memories. Ricky Rudd was one of my favorite drivers. He was one of the last hardasses. Up until 2002, he won at least one race a season, even when he was an owner/driver.
@@emeyer6963 americans are the champions of nescar, only because no other country does this turn only left turd race 😂 same with rugby, basball, ice hocky 😂
Due to the special tuning and higher-flow exhaust you want to make sure you cross-reference the O2 sensor for the one they have IN it and not the one the production cars get. This may be a special wide band or otherwise sensor special to this car.
With no cats, the O2 sensor isn't really gonna do anything. And I don't think Hoovie's going to modify the exhaust, especially since the car has a junk title anyway. It's a museum piece and it forever will be.
I wouldn't bother replacing the sensor or even fixing the A/C. This is a museum piece and really shouldn't be driven much. Not practical, or even legal, to drive on public roads much.
@@1k_vonte You mean WIDE band, yes? Because that engine is NOT a factory stock tune, there's a high likelihood the parameters to which they had to add more fuel and spark could exceed a factory narrowband O2 sensor's ability to monitor. A narrowband sensor ONLY tells the ECU whether the AFT is around 14.7:1 or not? This means the ECU can ONLY perform Closed Loop O2 control when we are targeting a mixture of 14.7:1. A wideband O2 sensor measures AFRs of around 0.68 to 1.36 Lambda or 10:1 to 20:1 petrol air-fuel ratio. That’s the ENTIRE operating range of a conventional engine!. This means the ECU can be monitoring the actual air/fuel ratio, checking back against the tuner’s desired ratio and then make changes to make sure the Target and Actual are always the same.
I didnt see a single O2 sensor lol. I highly doubt they cared about putting them in back in 1997 cause this was for the race only. No reason to have working O2.
Sadly Walker was the passenger in the car; it was his friend who was driving the Porsche, who died too. Still, the message is clear: do not drive a car recklessly with 3x the power of this Monte on old rubber.
Oh my goodness! When you showed the footage projected onto the Pace car of the pace car at the race? That was absolutely amazing. What a magical moment! Wonderful wonderful content here with this. I have always loved those Monte Carlo‘s. Especially the super sport. I actually had an 85 Monte Carlo SS with the NASCAR facia and the T-Tops, purchased from the original owner with 45,000 miles. I owned it for many years. She was a runner and a stunner. Enjoy your new Monte. Pace cars are a lot of fun!
What are you talking about? Because I saw something I liked and shared in the enthusiasm for a good Chevrolet Monte Carlo? That’s what we are here for, you weirdo. You should try feeling a little joy in your own life for you try to tell me what to do. Shutup
I own all the Monte Carlo Pace cars from the 6th generation that GM sold to the public. I know they get a lot of hate but I genuinely believe they are massively underrated. Big trunks, extremely comfortable seats, and incredible reliability out of a cruiser that looks like absolutely nothing else on the road then or since
*10:40** It's usually just a camshaft swap. The cam lobes are set for 'best fuel economy', so they put a new grind in, and it's easy to find 30-40hp on a stock engine with a Cam swap.* *If they add a "true" CAI, and an intake, in 1998, they can remap the fuel, so that's it. It gets less MPG than stock, but it's more fun.*
@@johngaither9263 *Lope is actually an artifact of carbuereted engines. You can have pretty aggressive cams on computer cars and program most of the lope out.* *I had a crazy 'split program' on an blown LT1 that made it sound like granny's caddy cruising around town, but if you tipped in the TPS to 60% it switched tables to craziness.* *But it had a 234 with a small 112LSA that I had custom cut.* *I could control the crossover points on the trans, and had a mild stall, so most of the cruise time was pretty quiet.*
I own a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP retired pace car. It was used in the 2003 NASCAR season. All the strobes were removed before the sale and replaced with new headlight and tail light capsules. Mine came through Barrett Jackson also. The strobes were in boxes in the back seat so I installed them and everything works.
My mother is a couple months older & she's the youngest of four children. She still has her license, she wants to drive my new Cadillac but I declined that. This generation of people were a different bread altogether..
Berra is successfully running GM into the ground… Much like Welch did to GE. Gut it, force out good people, offer products that nobody really wants, go all in, forget your core and your customers. Seems about right, keep looking under the cushions. The next bailout looms.
My very first car was a green 1998 Monte Carlo I bought for $6,900 in 2003 one week before I turned 16. Took my drivers test in it and passed. Unfortuately, on my 16th birthday, shortly after school I was driving around enjoying my new freedom, I was making a left turn on a protected green light with an obstructed corner and and older gentlemen in a Dodge Ram blew the red light and plowed into my driver door, and that was the end of that car. I found it later in the junkyard, cut in half, and pulled the chevy logo off the trunk deck as a memto of my first car to keep with me. This car brought back all of those memories.
I went to Talladega one year and camped for the weekend. People walking and driving through the campground for all hours. A pickup came by about 11 o'clock and stopped to see if I wanted to go with them. I jumped in with a few beers and we toured the campground and then hit the highway. Came back about an hour later with my new best friends. This was circa your pace car or a little earlier.
Nice buy, Hoovie! The wheel weights are taped on to prevent them from being lost/slung out when they're doing a ton of high-speed laps - it's a common "hack". Other than the cat delete and larger exhaust, it seems to have an oil catch can or cooler judging by those AN lines going along the front crossmember and into the front bumper.
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At 25:42, the wheel weights were a part of NASCAR's regulation that all wheel weights needed to be secured to the wheel (with the standard clip on the weight) and then taped over with "200 mph" tape or duct tape. They didn't want to rely on a single attachment method for wheel weights, especially when the pace car will sometimes need to do 100+ mph to catch the leading race car when a caution comes out. Funnily enough, this is still a requirement to this day in lower series, such as the INEX US Legends car series.
Very cool pick up Hoovie! I actually bought a 1998 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Dark Jade Green metallic and tan leather interior. It was mine for all of 20 minutes, after I figured out the Finance Manager wasn't going to let me buy it without charging me 18% interest with a 720+ credit score. Needless to say I cancelled the purchase and walked. Apologized to the great salesman and left. Anyways....love it!
@@Wontreplyeverdontbother Are you the finance manager? I did have a 720 credit score, but the finance manager said he couldn't find less than 18%. Maybe READ things next time?
@@itsnotme07why didn’t you go to a credit union? Duh a 720 in 98’ you woulda got like a 7% rate .did you think dealer financing was the end all be all?..
Tyler, I've been a fan since day one. Congrats on the extremely cool pace car. That said, please, you have got to lose that sponsor. I don't get to tell you how to run your business, but I can say this much: if I were running a RU-vid channel I would absolutely want quality, reputable sponsors.
also the lights would cause some problems in florida and cali that don't allow any flashing lights on cars regardless of color. those two reasons are enough to junk title it
@@thekernel69 South Carolina does not allow the strobe/flashing lights either except on authorized vehicles, like police, fire, etc.., which I learned a long time ago, as I had a neighbor who bought a screen used Crown Vic at action for super cheap back in the mid 2000's that was part one of the Left Behind Christian movies, and our town police made her spray paint over the fake security logos on the side of the car, and cover up the strobe lights that were on the top of it till they could be removed, but she was still able to title it, and drove it around for years with no issues once the lights were removed, the holes on the roof left by the lights were patched.
@@thekernel69 He could mount fifteen-hundred of those lights on the car in Florida or California if he wanted to. He just can't turn them on while he's on the road.
It would be interesting to compare this motor to a standard 3800 and to a Supercharged 3800 and see what they did to it. 20% more power with no boost is impressive. Especially for GM in the 90's.
I had the same experience when I bought a 1985 Mercedes Benz 190 in 2020 with 1500km = ~1000miles. My neighbours dad bought it new and drove it 2-3 years. After that they discovered that he had a glaucoma for years and took his licence. The old man lived till 2018 and we all thought that the car was sold decades ago but he had it jacked up in his garage. Even changed the fluids every 10 years or so. The only problem was the tank and the fuel pipes. The petrol.......wasn´t really petrol anymore and for safety reasons we bought new tires and overhauled the whole brake system. The rest was in pristine condition. When you work on old cars it´s........unsettling when you see a car that should have signs of old age and looks like it came just out of the factory.
My dad was a sales agent for a company that made lights/sirens for police/fire and had a demo car with dozens of different lights, and the same kind of master switch in the trunk; a car like it was in a bit of a legal grey area so it was a way to say to the cops who pulled you over, “yeah the crown vic’s got lights but I couldn’t turn them on if I wanted to”. Cool car.
@@euroasianbob9268- I bought one new in 1982. Beware of the sunroof. It you keep your finger on the switch too long after it closes, the sunroof will explode.
European cars with US spec bumpers etc. really ruin the look of them. My dad had one new in 1982 also. There are 2 for sale here in Ireland at the moment. So tempted.
May be it can become street legal again by putting the car on his companies name and drive it as a ‘tow truck’ or ‘maintenance’ vehicle (?). Cat.’s can be bolted on just before MOT (or the US equivalent) and can be stored afterwards. The strobes do not have to be a problem. As long as you can not operate them from inside the vehicle hence while on public road, you are fine. On private grounds or a festival area they can be turned on.
So, this was the first new hoppty featured in the new garage? I remember when GM swapped the Lumina model for the Monte Carlo. It felt good to have the car back at least in name. Congratulations on the new garage sir!
I have a 1995 Corvette Indy Pace Car that was kept in the corvette museum and has all original paper work for $17,995 . Think it would be great for the collection !
This is classic Hoovie right here! Absolutely adored this video and I'm so glad you give this GM platform the proper recognition! That 3800 V6 is one of the greatest to ever do it!
@@gregorylyon1004 He made money on that, getting rid of it so fast. It was still on the lot too, and the dealer had already marked it down. The Tesla dealership down the street had 8 on their lot at one time...just sitting there.
First thing I would do is get some modern high-speed tires on this, and change every fluid in it, along wit a whole bunch of rubber parts. The bearings and brakes are probably good. Also, these are wheel aligned to conform to the track. Maybe needs realignment. I bought an old geezer like this many years ago, which had "sat around" and found it had more problems than a normal road driven car.
Did 40 miles in my 1971 Dodge D100 Pick Up yesterday; hauls more than about any modern truck. Apple Carplay for $50 off Amazon makes it even more enjoyable.
At 23:13 Hoovie mentioned a "transverse-mounted car". That's how I sold many new Oldsmobile cars in the 1990s. Older buyers would say "that engine is sideways!" I would reply "actually, the engine is normal, the car is sideways!" and always get the sale.
Super cool & congrats! Re: wheel weight tape. I picked up the habit of running tape over stuck on weights on my bikes from racers who do it to help ensure parts don't fly off in the event of a crash.
In the late 80’s my father rocked a Renault Fuego Turbo that I was allowed to drive. My 18 year old self recalls it having some pretty awesome giddy up when the turbo kicked in. I’d drive it across the PA turnpike between Hershey and Bucks County. The car was a step up for Dad. After divorcing my mother, and also from extreme frugalness he learned in the army, my father drove a 1979 LeCar for quite a long time. Hell, he bought me one as my first car, he loved them so much. When he finally had a few bucks he stepped up and into. Fuego Turbo. Cool looking car at the time. Excellent performance. And not many on the road in the States. Brings back lots of memories. Looking forward to the video Bob!
@@CecilBrian A Fuego was the very first car I ever drove on the road... I won't say where or when, because I was only 13 at the time. Drove it around a couple of neighborhoods near my school for about 10-15 min. It belonged to one of my teachers and she let me drive it. (I wish I could remember her name, but it was a long time ago.) It was an automatic, which sucked, because I wanted to drive a manual.
Eagle GS-C tire - nice piece of history. Let me know if you need any tire info on these. Based on the staggered sizing, I am guessing that those may be from the Corvette or Camaro (depending on the sizes). The wheel weights have the usual double sided tape PLUS the overlaid dust tape (fairly typical "belt and suspenders" for the racetrack). Yes, back then, all the vehicle that were on track vehicle had to be Goodyears (even the service trucks) Goodyear would have been fine with a "square 4 fitment" (all tires the same size). I suspect that the GM vehicle team specified the staggered fitment (either for looks or vehicle dynamics).
So awesome you got to meet William Shatner. I briefly met him a few months ago, he's amazing. I think keeping busy is the key to his vitality and longevity!
The most surprising part of this video came @3:25. William Shatner was completely on the ball both physically and mentally and handled the little skit perfectly, while appearing to be maybe a 73 year old man. Get this, folks: William Shatner turned NINETY-THREE; yes 93 years old in March of 2014. Maybe the Car Wizard's alternate channel might consider doing an episode on ADRENOCHROME.
Wheel weights on race cars and bikes are generally covered in duct tape as an extra safety. I do it on my own motorcycles because the adhesive is junk on modern weights.
If im not mistaken also the spoiler moulded into the trunk and quarter pannels is unique to that car. The spoiler was normally glued and bolted on in 3 pieces to the normal car. There was alot of work put into that thing. Its a work of art very cool!
My first car was a 97 Monte Carlo. Great little car, when you get to 70+ or so mph the big spoiler on the back pushes the front off the ground and the steering gets really floaty. Good times.
I actually was at this race in 98! My cousin was one of VP'S at the track and was in charge of the Indy Museum. These cars were kept at floors in the basement of the museum not open to the public. Luckily I knew someone! My cousin was married to Tony George's sister Nancy! These have special chips too get that horsepower. My 2000 Pontiac GTP 3800 has about 280 hp . At stock the Hp was 240 but I have a ZZP Stage II kit in it! Remember to turn the strobes. They will kill the battery! Nancy left them on in the 89 Pace Car that was a Trans Am and killed it!
I'm surprised GM didn't unload these things in their pre-bankruptcy sale back in 2009. Also, jump title, no driving on the street, as he tells us this while driving on the street with tires that are so old they are quite dangerous
Even if more aftermarket support was a thing, you're stuck fabricating 80% of the stuff out there to make 500whp. But they'll take 500hp forever, transmissions not so much
My grandfathers last car was a z34 Monte Carlo; a SC Riviera before that. Me being between 8-15 and not really respecting either of them made it all the more special the older i got when i realized grandpa was a Motörhead but wanted that warranty!! RIP Commander ❤
We always tape down stick-on wheel weights for track days. Cheap insurance against losing a wheel weight if the adhesive fails, and having a projectile on the track.
