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Show Monte Carlo The top of the line Chevrolet's Monte Carlo adds to its prestige as a personal luxury car for 1976 with a smart new head-on look and advances in convenience and driveability. Monte Carlo front end styling spotlights new rectangular headlights in vertically stacked pairs, new body front end panel with lightweight chrome grille and new bumper. The body rear end panel is also redesigned featuring new taillights and a new bumper which presents a more integrated appearance. ap-pearance. Backup lamps are relocated in the rear as are the parking lamps in the front. The Monte Carlo is offered of-fered again in either the Landau or regular coupe models with a new base 305-cubic 305-cubic inch (5.0 litre) V8 with two-barrel carburetor or optioijal four-barrel 400-cubic 400-cubic inch (6.6 litre) V8 and 350-cubic inch (5.7 litre) two-barrel V8. The 350 V8 with four-barrel carburetor r "" " continues to be available only in California and the 454 V8 is discontinued as a Monte Carlo option. Turbo Hydramatic automatic transmission with a 2.73 axle ratio is base equipment for all Monte Carlo engine combinations. Fourteen exterior colors . . . nine of them new . . . are offered for 1976 while a new note is added with a distinctive fashion tone paint. The electric rear window defogger is offered as an option for the first time on Monte Carlos. A further new feature in the safety area on Monte Carlos as well as other Chevrolet cars is a roll-over fuel spillage control system. Quality Monte Carlo interiors include a custom offering of three velour, knit cloth and vinyl fabrics, or three all-vinyl shades, while the standard interior comes in three knit cloth and vinyl shades or four all-vinyl all-vinyl colors. |