Dave London isn’t one of those speculators who’s investing his greenbacks in a car, putting it away, and banking that it’s going to be a valuable collector prize some day. While that may indeed come true, London’s affinity for his undeniably beautiful and interesting 1987 Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS Aerocoupe goes far beyond dollar signs and trying to get “ahead of the curve” on a car that is likely to gain in stature among collectors.
No, London simply digs the car, loves its NASCAR racing connections, and relishes the opportunity to have one of the few pristine examples of this relatively rare Monte Carlo variant that a lot of buyers appreciated when it was new, but not many preserved.
“My thing was always NASCAR,” said London, a resident of Franklin, N.C. “The cars that came out of NASCAR in the late 1960s and ’70s — the Superbirds and Daytonas and those kinds of cars — forget it. They just got too expensive for me. I was never going to have one of them.
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