The Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe was designed so that Chevy could better compete in racing and a limited number were also built for street use. This ’87 edition has just 6,500 miles on it, suggesting someone stored it away to capitalize on a potential big payout more than 30 years later. We’ll see if that ploy worked when the final bid is submitted here on eBay. Right now, the action stands at $20,700 with an unmet reserve on a car that’s in Londonderry, New Hampshire.
General Motors’ G-bodied intermediates (the Chevy Monte Carlo and Pontiac Grand Prix) weren’t delivering the kind of results in NASCAR they had hoped for. So, for 1986-87, GM fielded “aero coupe” versions of the cars that were “more slippery” than before, but NASCAR required GM to produce a minimum number of them for street use as well. Chevy responded with their version of the Monte Carlo SS Aero Coupe that saw just 200 copies in 1986 and 6,052 (some sources say 3,500) in 1987. In both of those years, Dale Earnhardt won the Winston Cup Championship while driving the car, so the move worked.
While all the ’86 SS Aero Coupes were all built just alike, for ’87 you could get one with any available exterior and interior SS colors. The option code for the 1987 Aerocoupe was Z16, and it looks as though all of them were assembled in Pontiac, Michigan. The SS Aero Coupes featured a fastback-style rear window, rear decklid spoiler, special gauges including a tachometer, and a blacked-out grille. The cars were still rear-wheel-drive and came with a 5.0-liter V8 that produced 180 hp and 240 lb.·ft of torque with an automatic transmission. These were not barn burners compared to muscle cars 15-20 years earlier.
The seller’s SS is a clean automobile with no rust and its original paint, although the finish on the hood, roof, and trunk have begun to fade. It has T-tops with no signs of leakage and the interior appears to be of time capsule quality. The car has seen only 6,500 miles of use, so it’s exceptionally clean everywhere you look. It runs and drives well, but all the belts, hoses, and tires are what it came with from the factory, so anything made of rubber is due to be changed out.
A quick check of resale values for these cars doesn’t bring a consensus other than the range might be between $20-40,000. Let’s say this one sells for $30,000; factoring in inflation for the past 34 years, the original owner would have had to pay no more than $12-12,500 for the car new in 1987 to break even today. But the MSRP for an ’87 SS Aero Coupe without options was $15-16,000. So instead of parking the car at 6,500 miles, you’d have been better off to keep using it, but sparingly.
I always liked these, don’t understand why they got no respect.
Because they were SLUGS. Nice Cars But they had 305’s .
Does every car have to be a performance car? Why can’t a car be good looking and comfortable? 180HP is more than you will ever need to safely pass on a two lane road and to keep up with any traffic. I still think this is one beautiful car. Wish I was younger, might start a bigger car collection, starting with this. Ya know, it sucks to get old. I have the cash, but not the time anymore. Would be better to be well off when you are young and poorer when you are old. Life is so mixed up. Maybe if I ask nice I can have a nice car collection in Heaven.
305s were race motors, and for those that has mechanical skills could easily and cheaply build significantly more power.
Its not the cars fault that there were government restrictions and people complained about fuel costs.
You gotta pay to play :)
This car is one of the only muscle cars of the era AND a legend on the race track.
So, knock it all you want but, its just as cool as a 70 Monty Carlo
BUT
has way nicer interior, Ttops, AC..
Somebody will buy it, and get compliments all day long.. and feel good when they get home;
and thats what it all about.
Makes me nostalgic of the production car template era. Has anyone seen a Camry coupe lately?
Has anybody seen ANY old Toyotas (or Hondas, or Datsuns) lately? IMHO, there aren’t many left.
They were dogs, I owned a 87 LS 4.9 liter V6, that was a cruiser and nothing was expected of it, but the wheel and sticker leftover fake muscle cars were horrible, if this car was burgundy they would get the money for it, this color is no sale
Sorry all, but I think this is just another typical 1980’s design abomination ….wouldn’t matter what engine it had.
I bought an 87 in 1990 white exterior w/burgundy interior, AC, buckets, console and t-tops. I paid $12,000 and drove it for less than a year before selling it. These 305’s had a problem with valve guide failure and at about 12,000 miles it started blowing blue smoke on every cold start up. T-tops did leak with every right hand turn on the passenger side. AC worked perfectly in our brutal summer days (added 20% tint to the windows). Never drove it in our So Florida rainy season much. Sold it for $11,000. Fun car that needed more HP.