Remember the customized '94 Caprice, with , that we admired in a Colorado car graveyard a couple of months back? Just a few rows over from that car was custom , this one with elaborate airbrush artwork celebrating and . That's what we've got for today's . The was born , a sporty midsize coupe that (along with its ) sparked the 1970s personal luxury coupe boom.
It went through six generations before being discontinued after 2007; today's is from that final generation. that the 2002 Monte Carlo was "the car for 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 .
The SS got a 3.8-liter V6 rated at 200 horsepower and 225 pound-feet. For the 2004-2005 model years, , with a 5.
3-liter LS V8 engine going in the 2006-2007 cars (and in ). The final year for a manual transmission in the Monte Carlo , so this car has the mandatory four-speed automatic. 21st-century 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.
Gucci logos are everywhere on this car. There have been legitimate Gucci-branded cars, of course, including and . More common in the everyday driving world are the unauthorized uses of famous fashion-house logos; I've seen everything from to during .
Perhaps created by a musician who and attended the same high school as , , .