MPC 1980 Chevy Monte Carlo

[AMT68]

Built from the current reissue of the 1/25 scale Class Action Monte Carlo, painted in Dupli-Color GM Light Blue Metallic and cleared with Rust-Oleum. The kit offers a landau top that covers the C-pillar but I always preferred these cars with the canopy style landau roof.. I bordered the covered section with a strip of .015x.30 styrene and misted flat white with a light coat of clear satin to create the top.  The kit assembled nicely and the only real issue I encountered was a bulged drivers side fender which I remedied by running a couple strips of styrene under each fender and gluing the hood shut. I still built the motor but hung onto nonvisible parts like the air cleaner which I saved in the parts box.  While I'll always prefer the two generations of the Monte Carlo that preceded these third generation G-bodies I still think these '78-'80 versions are pretty decent looking cars. IMHO anyway. 

[charger74]

It looks really good 👍🏻👍🏻

[ChrisR]

Looks great.

[PappyD340]

Very nice Monte Carlo!

[Mike 1017]

KOOL

[espo]

Great looking paint finish and color. Like the changes to the vinyl roof treatment. Nice to see a showroom style build like this once in a while. 

[karbuildr]

Very nice build, neat and clean, very nice color.

[tahiti7]

Nice job AMT68! Reminds me of my FILs car from

back in the day.

[ncbuckeye67]

That's beautiful! I had a 78, and my best friend had a 79 with that type of vinyl roof.

[Tom99]

Very nice!

[AMT68]

On 5/11/2025 at 12:27 AM, charger74 said:

It looks really good 👍🏻👍🏻

 

On 5/11/2025 at 5:47 AM, ChrisR said:

Looks great.

 

On 5/11/2025 at 5:50 AM, PappyD340 said:

Very nice Monte Carlo!

 

On 5/11/2025 at 10:35 AM, Mike 1017 said:

KOOL

Thank you Eric, Chris, Larry and Michael

On 5/11/2025 at 11:17 AM, espo said:

Great looking paint finish and color. Like the changes to the vinyl roof treatment. Nice to see a showroom style build like this once in a while. 

Thanks David. I agree these aren't always done factory like and for that matter not posted all too often.

23 hours ago, karbuildr said:

Very nice build, neat and clean, very nice color.

 

21 hours ago, tahiti7 said:

Nice job AMT68! Reminds me of my FILs car from

back in the day.

 

9 hours ago, Tom99 said:

Very nice!

Thanks David, Steve and Tom. 

10 hours ago, ncbuckeye67 said:

That's beautiful! I had a 78, and my best friend had a 79 with that type of vinyl roof.

Thanks Jeff. With the Landau roof, T-tops or two tone these could be very sharp looking cars. 

[Rattlecan Dan]

Sweet-looking ride. Very nice job.

[slusher]

Beautiful Monte Carlo!

[AMT68]

On 5/12/2025 at 7:14 PM, Rattlecan Dan said:

Sweet-looking ride. Very nice job.

 

18 hours ago, slusher said:

Beautiful Monte Carlo!

Thank you Donato and Carl.