I Spent $50,000 Racing My Monte Carlo 

…but… 100x?

I think the idea is to take a vehicle and throw money at it until you can no longer legally drive it on the street 🤔

Drives my wife crazy🤣

This is the way.

Yes sir, I've owned my Z3 for 8 months and already put the value of the car into it 😂😭

100% facts

I was dying! Lol

Same here.

I bet Ed added that in himself

Any Monte Carlo looks better without that bumper :)

It's a luxury Derby Basher. Monte is a European Brands worst nightmare.

250k miles stock?

I must be the luckiest guy in the world because I have NEVER had an issue with a 4l60.

Cressidas are Siiiiick bro! 2JZ swap?

@@gottabtru1 1JZ, built by Onsong Performance here in Australia. RealSt billet mains, Spool Rods, CP Pistons, bored .020" & honed, align honed the crank tunnel, fully weight balanced and blueprinted block and assembly, King XP Bearings, ARP studs (head & main), BC HD springs, shimless buckets, Wolf ECU, TWIN Garrett GT2860RS turbos, Davies Craig Water Pump, Fenix radiator, 1FZ alternator upgrade, everything else is new Toyota OEM such as gaskets and water pump, plus more to put in like cams, surge tank and 1650cc injectors. Built 1000hp spec A340E transmission by Gilroys. 26mm Fulcrum swaybar and Superpro bushings throughout, custom sway bar links, KYB shocks/King Springs, 355mm TBS racing rotors and 6 piston calipers. Yeah, like I said...easy 50K. 😅

@@MafiaboysWorld had it built that good and you're using a Wolf and twin 2860s?? Just chuck a single on, and a proper computer instead of doing it after it's finished the first time

@@slow26gtr Wolf has transmission control for the A340E. If I wanted lag and nothing under 5000rpm that I'd need nitrous to get up on the converter, I would go get a big single, but I don't want that. I want response plus power, and 2860s with the A/R I have are the perfect combination for what I want. 😎👍

@@MafiaboysWorld haha you'll see, or maybe you wont.. but turbo technology has moved on

Lucky to live in an era of both!

Why not just go full Marty McFly and get a Shelby Daytona in the Mid seventies, or find one of the Hemi 'Cuda Convertibles?!

@@kellyscars Purchase cap for the C2C Express was $3k

3k for a 928? Are you talking about a 1990's era japanese spec car or something

@@thehumanoid6543 nope just talking about 2017 - the glorious period of time in recent history when bad 928s were $2500 and good ones were $25000

Don't be to hard on yourself Doug. Yes the financial hit hurts. Yet you say it was a learning experience & the memories you had with it. It is true a project car is finished when it's finished - which is usually never lol. Faulty logic or not. Which might explain the abundance of half completed car projects on eBay. That Monte Carlo was the perfect cannonball sleeper. Which cop is going to believe a monte Carlo doing 120.... Compared to the mercedes or Porsche.

I guess an LT1 isn't powerful enough to break a 4L60e... Mine has 216k miles in a b-body.

I'm not sure whether that is a compliment or not lol.

I bought a 1991 C2500 truck in January 2022 for $500 and I'm now $9,000 in and it looks as horrible as it did a year ago. Having the 4L80E transmission rebuilt as I type this. I'm SUCH a moron!!!!

Buying a Ford.

1st. Financing a car... 2nd. Not buying a running Trans Am with the 6.6L for $600 when I was 14. (Although the gas to have kept that thing going all these years would have cost more than its worth.)

Pretty much all of them.

'86 Iroc Z/28. Bought it off a Vegas car lot (trade plus cash deal). Got a temporary sticker. That ran out. Still no plates, no title. Had the DMV investigate it and found out the title was in probate, because the car was repoed from a guy who had committed suicide. Lovely. They got that straightened out right away once the DMV got involved. In the next 3 months, the cat started rattling so replaced that (emissions testing there so had to keep that), the radiator tank cracked so replaced it, then the engine started clattering, in addition to the infamous sbc valve seal start up cloud, so swapped that for a 350. At that point all trust in the car was gone, and as a car it still had every single plastic interior rattle that it left the factory with that sounded like being inside of a Styrofoam cooler. So I put it on a consignment lot, and that douchebag wasn't trying at all to sell it because I found out he was using it for his daily driver. When I found that out, I went and got it and traded it to another car lot for a Dodge pickup. I was never so happy to be rid of any car as that car that day. Lucky for me I didn't have it long enough for the 4L60 to fail.

My inlaws gave me their 74 Monte. I need to get the interior redone. Engine and transmission are low miles.

@@brpadington it is very front heavy so the back can swing out in the rain. Be careful.

@Tom K my trans am has that same issue.

There was a guy at my high school who had a white one, about a '73 or '74. He'd bought it off one of the teachers who had it as her daily driver. This was about 2010, mind you. It was tremendously ugly but it was unique. It looked to be in decent shape too.

It's still not best Monte!

Do you want to have a good CAR or a good STORY?

When Ed sells one of his cars on Cars And Bids

THIS!! is they story of how I got started reviewing cars. I will also be telling you about the quirks and weird features of my life!

He’s too good to be on other peoples channels, I’ve noticed. The weird thing is that he’s known Ed for a long time so it’s bizarre that it’s never happened

@@warderjack He'll do a podcast here and there but he keeps to himself. He'll tell the occasional anecdote on his channel when it's related to a car but otherwise he's pretty private. He also hates traveling outside of San Diego. Doug worked for Porsche in Atlanta so I'm sure he and Ed overlapped.

The 4l80e is a good transmission, definitely not a moron getting that built.

😂😂

I'm just wondering if the auxiliary tanks fitted to the monte Carlo were vented together. If only one tank was vented as the fuel got low in the other tank it would start to form a vacuum... maybe...

Light duty MF

@@nickolaswhite4288 okay bud doubt it but okay bud

Sounds more of 24hr Lemons than Cannon.

You could do it cheap but it requires a good motor stock

It means stocks. People use it to make memes about bad financial decisions, since it's easy to just use words like "stocks" to sound smart about money even if you don't know what you're talking about. They just switch the c to an n cause that's how the meme developed

@@breedsma ah ok thanks a lot! I guess I’ll quit saying it now even though I came up with it independently for a completely different reason haha. Thanks again!

@@GrannySingaporePVP Nah you should keep on saying it, don't worry about what other people are doing

@@breedsma true! Good advice!