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The golden color shines in the late-day Denver glow, begging a second look. What? You’re not into four-doors? How about a car that looks and acts brand new for an asking price—read, “starting point”—of $7500. How can you not be just a little bit curious? You will have to do a fuel exchange and tank cleanout, since this battleship has been docked for about twenty years, but surely you can fly in, spend a couple of days or three sorting that out, and then drive this 1977 Dodge Monaco home.

You’d be adding miles to an odometer that has clicked over just under 67,000 times, but given that this is the nearly unkillable 318-CID V8, what would you fear? The prior owners, a father and later a son, appear to have treated this car with kid gloves. They owned it from new until the early 2000s. It’s been carefully stored since. There’s nothing to fault except for a fancier stereo than what the factory provided as far as originality goes. While some luxury touches are missing—the car has vinyl seats and crank-up windows—others are there, like chromed accent spears on the hood, body-sides, and trunk, fancy full wheel covers, and what must be one of history’s biggest vinyl tops given the four-door body  configuration. And it has fun touches like turn signal indicators on the leading edge of the front fenders facing the pilot.

These were often seen in green or blue, but I recall this fawn color as one you most often spied back in the day. That might be a bit clouded by the mists of time, though, as the ad lists the color as “custom.” Let’s assume that’s “factory custom” first of all, and then hope that someone can pick up the ball and explain to the rest of us what this custom hue is called.

You can verify all of the details about this barge for yourself (with thanks for the tip going to Tony Primo), here on craigslist, where the car could be snatched up any time. Interestingly, the seller even offers to take a trade. What’s lingering in your driveway that might entice him? Anyway, do your due diligence, and figure out what if anything it would mean to you, cost-wise, that this 1977 Monaco has not been registered since 2001. Are back-fees owed? Speaking of that, who actually has title to the car at this moment? If you can sort that out with the seller and the DMV, and you get this car for under the asking price, you’ve got a lot of car for the money, and not in a “look how huge it is” kinda way.