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Post by 74MonteCarlo Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:10 pm

Is why Monte Carlos did not have a center armrest like the Malibu Classics did.

Being a personal luxury car, wouldn't it make sense to have one?

Just a thought...

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Post by The Dude Mon Apr 04, 2011 12:28 pm

Good point. I don't know much about Montes, but that's interesting to find out. I always wondered why GM got the bright idea of building a "personal" luxury car that was not quite full sized, but still larger than the midsize Chevelle. I also almost understand the rear seats, but not quite. Lower insurance costs, sure. "Personal" luxury car..... sounds misconceived.
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Post by 74chick Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:12 pm

Maybe it had to do with Monte's having the flip bucket swivel seats not in Chevelles.
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Post by 74MonteCarlo Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:19 pm

Chevelles had swivel bucket seats, too.

Not all Montes had them. Most had benches.

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Post by 74chick Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:21 pm

Yes, but some had that seat cover that was two sided. Chevelles, far as I know, did not.
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Post by 74MonteCarlo Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:33 pm

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Post by 74MonteCarlo Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:36 pm

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Post by The Dude Mon Apr 04, 2011 3:55 pm

74chick wrote:Yes, but some had that seat cover that was two sided. Chevelles, far as I know, did not.

You mean like the ones in H/O Cutlasses?

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Post by 74chick Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:40 pm

Yes like those seats.
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Post by IndyG3 Mon Apr 04, 2011 7:54 pm

In all fairness, my car came with a bench seat.
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Post by 74MonteCarlo Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:17 pm

Lol.

You could still get a Chevelle with swivel bucket seats, is my point. There are not many around, but there are.

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Post by Biomedtech Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:28 pm

And good luck finding repro seat covers for those flip cushion swivel buckets! :grumble grumble:
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Just bought a set last week and no luck so far except for a 2900.00 custom job!
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Post by Jedediah Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:40 pm

2900 bucks i need to get in on that buisness
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Post by The Dude Tue Apr 05, 2011 9:57 am

Biomedtech wrote:And good luck finding repro seat covers for those flip cushion swivel buckets! :grumble grumble:
Mad

Just bought a set last week and no luck so far except for a 2900.00 custom job!

Wonder why so much. Aren't the cushions like a two sided pillow? That's just beyond belief that they would cost so much to recover.

Kyle, you must be misreading Chick's posts. She didn't mean regular swivels, she meant those Hurst/Olds ones... which I had never heard of until Bio mentioned them. Anyone got an RPO on those seats? Not listed in my Chevelle books that I can see.
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Post by 74chick Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:57 pm

No, but here is a master list of RPO's.
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