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Originally Posted by MYRONARL1119
The all time sleeper factory V8 Monza was to Calif 1975 model. The 262 would not pass Calif smog test, so they used a factory 350 into Calif that would. Never saw one in the Midwest as I would think that would have been rather limited.
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I actually saw one, Myron; it was running in the Production classes at Bonneville in '87 or so and almost couldn't get through tech because of lack of documentation. I believe the model was referred to as the "
Black Widow", (in deference to the Monza [/i]Spyder[/i] option). Apparently, the same name was bestowed on a limited performance model of the
Corvair Monza
Spyder so it was (apparently) a generational thing. Maybe Gould can shed some light on that.
Ironically, smallblock Monzas became one of the more common cars on the salt; there are still a bunch of them running there, too.