{"id":23846,"date":"2022-06-05T12:04:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23846"},"modified":"2022-06-05T12:04:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:04:06","slug":"junkyard-gem-1998-chevrolet-monte-carlo-z34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23846","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 1998 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Z34"},"content":{"rendered":"

The original Chevrolet Monte Carlo<\/a> stayed in production for the 1970 through 1988<\/a> model years, with each of that period’s four generations of Montes featuring two doors, rear-wheel-drive, and rakish-looking fender bulges. When the Chevrolet Lumina<\/a> got a refresh for 1995, GM<\/a> decided to revive the Monte Carlo<\/a> name on the coupe version. The new Lumina Carlo<\/a> lacked the rear-wheel-drive and fender bulges of its predecessors, but the good news was that the Lumina’s high-performance Z34 trim level<\/a> moved over to this car. Today’s Junkyard Gem<\/a> is one of those Z34s, found in a Denver-area self-service yard last month.<\/p>\n

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The 1995-1997 Monte Carlo Z34s had a screaming 3.4-liter DOHC V6 rated at 215 horsepower and 220 pound-feet, but the 1998-1999 models received the good old 3.8-liter pushrod Buick V6<\/a> and its 200 horses. At least the torque went up slightly, to 225 lb-ft. Other big Chevy<\/a> news for 1998 was the demise of the Geo brand<\/a> and the Prizm<\/a>, Metro<\/a>, and Tracker<\/a> becoming Chevrolets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The last year for a production Monte Carlo with three pedals was all the way back in 1979<\/a>, when both three-on-the-tree<\/a> and four-on-the-floor<\/a> versions were available. This car, like all 1998 W-Bodies, has a four-speed automatic.<\/p>\n

\"\"Only two trim levels were available for this car, the LS and the Z34. The price tag on the ’98 Monte LS was $17,795 and the Monte Z34 cost $20,295 (that’s about $31,835 and\u00a0 $36,310 in 2022 dollars). Other “Z” Chevrolets over the years include the Z24<\/a>, Z26<\/a>, and Z28<\/a>. Just to confuse everyone, the Cavalier had an F41 version<\/a> for a while.<\/p>\n

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The LS and Z34 looked nearly identical at a glance (and both very closely resembled their Lumina sedan sibling<\/a>), but the ’98 Z34 had 40 more horsepower than the LS.<\/p>\n

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The interior is standard 1990s W-Body stuff. You’d be hard-pressed to say if those doors and seat panels came from a Monte Carlo, a Grand Prix<\/a>, or a Cutlass Supreme<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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An AM\/FM radio with cassette deck was standard equipment in both the LS and Z34 Monte Carlos for 1998, but the original purchaser shelled out an additional 93 bucks ($166 today) for the CD player.<\/p>\n

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This one was living in South Dakota as recently as ten years ago.<\/p>\n

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The rust suggests that it spent most of its life in South Dakota or some similarly corrosion-friendly locale.<\/p>\n

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It may have been a good runner when it came to this place, but the Rust Monster doomed it.<\/p>\n

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The owner’s manual and plenty of maintenance records were still in it, so this may have been a one-owner car.<\/p>\n

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You’ll find one in every car<\/a>. You’ll see<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Pretty much the same thing as a NASCAR Monte Carlo, apparently.<\/p>\n\n

Later on, Monte Carlos with Tasmanian Devil badging<\/a> were available from the factory. Here’s Dale becoming possessed by the cartoon character during a pit stop in his Monte, consuming tires and fire-suppression-system bottles and washing them down with gasoline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The original Chevrolet Monte Carlo stayed in production for the 1970 through 1988 model years, with each of that period’s four generations of Montes featuring two doors, rear-wheel-drive, and rakish-looking fender bulges. When the Chevrolet Lumina got a refresh for 1995, GM decided to revive the Monte Carlo name on the coupe version. The new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}