1970 Monte Carlo

[PPV]

Dumb question from the States. I found this photo on line of a Right hand drive 1970 Monte Carlo. Is it a photo shop or did they actually send some down under?http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160714/3a23bffeab769114cc3b1f7686b16a76.png

[dgp]

A friends wife had a right hand drive red one here in Victoria. I don't know the history though.

[PPV]

Interesting, I've been into the first generation Monte for decades and never knew they exported them in right hand drive.

I have a '71 in red one too.

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160715/4fd9594bbb04d5004e316a06d0b411ad.jpg

[dgp]

We used to call it the big biscuit. We have a famous biscuit in Australia called the Monte Carlo.
It may have been a local conversion, I really don't know.

[V8LOAD]

I believe that even as late as 1970, Holden (GM) dealerships here and in NZ would get Chevrolets on the showroom floor....usually it would be an Impala. But a Monte Carlo might have sneaked in. Pontiacs were likewise imported as knocked-down kits from Canadian assembly plants and turned to RHD.

Buicks and Cadillacs were known to appear, but far rarer.

I believe the conversions were subcontracted to a few specialist engineering firms. But I could be wrong.

[Dickie Knee]

Could it be a photo from a car exported to South Africa they are RHD and got a lot of GM product in the 70's including some Holden stuff

[PPV]

Looks like some made it down under.

http://www.firstgenmc.com/forums/index.php?/topic/16786-rarest-of-rare/