Grab your Frankie Valli cassettes and we'll see you at the beach.
Nostalgia is what these three vehicles are all about. When you've been driving any one of the three for more than about five minutes, you begin to wish that you'd brought along all of your Frankie Valli/Del Shannon/Jan and Dean/Lovin' Spoonful cassettes—not to mention everything ever produced by Phil Spector or recorded by the aforementioned Beach Boys.
The Chevy looks more like a NASCAR stocker, and of course, that was the idea. As clunky as a standard Monte Carlo looks, it is nonetheless one of NASCAR's most successful racing shapes, and Chevrolet's stylists didn't have to do much to capture the character of the race cars in the SS. Everything about the Chevy is skewed toward that perception except the interior.
As we've said, the Oldsmobile is the least imposing of the three. It is powered by a five-liter version of the old Olds 350 V-8, and the emphasis is on low- and midrange torque. The cast-iron engine is dressed with the same Rochester four-barrel carburetor that's on the Chevy, and the power flows through the same four-speed automatic transmission, but there the resemblance ends.
The Monte Carlo's L69 engine is an American classic: a 305-cubic-inch version of the 30-year-old Chevy small-block V-8. Think of it as either the carbureted Z28 engine or a regular old Chevy V-8 with a 9.5 compression ratio and a Corvette camshaft. Either way, it delivers a very pleasing 180 horsepower.
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