{"id":75855,"date":"2024-08-18T12:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75855"},"modified":"2024-08-18T12:03:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T16:03:44","slug":"junkyard-gem-2002-chevrolet-monte-carlo-ss-disney-gucci-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=75855","title":{"rendered":"Junkyard Gem: 2002 Chevrolet Monte Carlos SS, Disney Gucci Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the customized ’94 Chevy Caprice, with its shaved door handles and screaming teal-and-flames paint job<\/a>, that we admired in a Colorado car graveyard a couple of months back? Just a few rows over from that car was\u00a0another<\/em> custom Chevrolet, this one with elaborate airbrush artwork celebrating Disney animated characters<\/a> and the Gucci fashion house<\/a>. That’s what we’ve got for today’s Junkyard Gem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Chevrolet Monte Carlo was born as a 1970 model<\/a>, a sporty midsize coupe that (along with its Pontiac Grand Prix sibling<\/a>) sparked the 1970s personal luxury coupe boom. It went through six generations before being discontinued after 2007; today’s 2002 SS<\/a> is from that final Monte Carlo generation.<\/p>\n

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Our reviewer felt<\/a> that the 2002 Monte Carlo was “the car for NASCAR fans,” with a slick aerodynamic design whose individual elements didn’t quite fit together. There were only two trim levels of the ’02 Monte available: LS and SS.<\/p>\n

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The SS got a 3.8-liter Buick V6 rated at 200 horsepower and 225 pound-feet. For the 2004-2005 model years, a supercharged version of this engine was available in the SS<\/a>, with a 5.3-liter LS V8 engine going in the 2006-2007 cars (and in their Pontiac Grand Prix GXP brethren<\/a>). The final year for a manual transmission in the Monte Carlo was 1979<\/a>, so this car has the mandatory four-speed automatic.<\/p>\n

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21st-century GM W-Body cars are a dime a dozen in American boneyards right now, so let’s get to what makes this one stand out: the custom paint job! The right half of the car is pink, while the left half is purple.<\/p>\n

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Gucci logos are everywhere on this car. There have been legitimate Gucci-branded cars, of course, including the AMC Gucci X Hornet Sportabout<\/a> and Fiat 500 Gucci Edition<\/a>. More common in the everyday driving world are the unauthorized uses of famous fashion-house logos; I’ve seen everything from a Louis Vuitton Mercedes-Benz S-Class<\/a> to a Caprice with a Gucci headliner<\/a> during my junkyard travels<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Perhaps the 2011 hit, “Gucci Gucci,”<\/a> created by a musician who drove a Buick Reatta at the time<\/a> and attended the same high school as Jim Morrison<\/a>, Mrs. Fields<\/a>, and yours truly<\/a>, was an inspiration for this car’s Gucci theme.<\/p>\n

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Most of the airbrush artwork celebrates Disney animated characters.<\/p>\n

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Jessica Rabbit, Mickey Mouse, Pluto, the gang’s all here.<\/p>\n

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It’s a shame to see all this work end up in the junkyard.<\/p>\n\n

Want to be like the Earnhardts? Drive the Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the customized ’94 Chevy Caprice, with its shaved door handles and screaming teal-and-flames paint job, that we admired in a Colorado car graveyard a couple of months back? Just a few rows over from that car was\u00a0another custom Chevrolet, this one with elaborate airbrush artwork celebrating Disney animated characters and the Gucci fashion house. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75856,"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-75855","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\/75855","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=75855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}