My first car was a 1976 Chevy Malibu Classic Coupe. It only had the straight 6 but that engine was bullet proof. Easy to tune-up and work on for a 17 yr. old. Great car!
Mine was the same, was a grey model that I later painted Red. Although it came with the smaller V8 which I replaced with a standard 350. Once I added glasspacks, that car was so sweet.
I had a 1982 Buick Electra with the six cylinder engine, it ran perfectly even after over 200K miles (it was a very nice driving car). My brother crashed it one day but by that time the transmission needed a rebuild or replacement anyway. No one was hurt in the crash although it did cost my insurance company $500 for the other guy's door.
Oh MAN. Our neighbor got a brand new 1976 Malibu Classic station wagon with the wood appliqué when I was young, and that thing was THE BOMB! I begged my parents for one.
Enjoyed this. Reminds me of the brand new 77 Malibu Classic Landau I ordered back in the day. Black with gold pinstripes and firethorn red velour interior. Rally wheels with Uniroyal raised white letter radial tires. Bumper strips, power windows, p. seat, p. trunk, intermittent wipers, a/c, sport suspension, aux lighting. Still have the "buyers order" from the dealership, and dealer brochure. Cost was about $6000. Got a 305. Should've gotten a 350, but was trying to get better mileage since I drove a lot, and gas prices were unstable at the time. Knowing what I know now, the mileage probably wouldn't have been much different, and the 350 power would've been better. But still, it was a beautiful car in and out and drove great.
Just watched a guy on TH-cam who took a rusty 77 Malibu Landau he fixed up and it is really nice. It is black black with firethorne red interior. It had a 305 that it was born with but now has a 350 with a 4 barrel. His channel misses called Clunkers and Classics. It's a good series.
I had the 1976 and the 1977....the 1977 had the 305 4bb and 1976 had the 2bbl 350. The 1976 has the light blue interior with buckets and exterior.....the 1977 had the Red Landau with red Landau, red pin stripes and various interior parts. They were EXCELLENT cars❤🎉
Thanks for the video! I can’t believe people were supposed to change their spark plugs every 8,000 miles on 1974 models like they said in this video. I seem to remember around then it was to clean them at 15,000, and replace at 30,000. I think an older lady/librarian type would be thrilled with this car today, the way it rides like a dream.
I didn't own one of these but I remember that Ford was still suggesting a tune up every 7,500 miles and an oil and filter change every 3,000 miles on the 1978 Thunderbird. By 1983 they were recommending tune ups every 30,000 miles on the Lincoln Town Car, I think the oil and filter changes were still suggested every 3,000 miles. My current van suggests a tune up every 100,000 miles (however, it takes special spark plugs that cost seven times as much as a plug for an older car, the older style 30,000 miles plugs are available as an aftermarket part for the van although I pay the premium for the factory style 100,000 mile spark plugs).
Back in 1988, I bought a Malibu Classic sedan from an older couple as a commuter/work vehicle. I think I paid about $900. It lasted a,few years and the 305 blew a headgasket at 155k miles. I had a remanufactured 350 crate intalled for about what I paid for the car. I drove it several more years after that.
Coronado High School drivers training car was a Malibu Classic Wagon that I drove all around San Diego area when learning to drive. Red, like the car shown but no roof rack. They also had a Malibu Classic sedan, but I didn't drive it.
My dad had a 74 Buick Century that had similar styling as this Malibu. It became my first car in ‘79. It drove great, especially on curvy Sunset Blvd. So smooth. It had a peculiar sound when accelerating. It was gun metal gray with red carpet and white seats.
@@artmchugh5644 My step dad worked at the GM plant in Van Nuys from 1962 to 1981. He built Chevy impalas and Cameros. I miss that guy and those times. Americans liked each other better back then. I think it’s because we built and made our own stuff.
I had a 1973 Monte Carlo in 1977 and it was a really good car. My sister also had a 1973 Monte Carlo at the same time but hers was very low miles when she got it, less then 10,000 and looked brand new.
I currently own a 1976 Malibu Classic black in color and rides on 8" wide corvette rallies with the center caps on them. The original motor was a 305 engine which now has been changed out to a 1994 Throttle Body Injected 454 with the first generation electronic overdrive transmission (electronic version of the 700R4 transmission). Footnote: they carried the 454 up until mid-year of 1975. The original engine was 210hp and this 454 is 235hp. Not much change in horsepower but makes up for it in about 300ft lbs of torque I did buy it from a little old lady in 1986 and have owned it since ( I am the second owner of it). Plus this car still has not turned over 100,000 miles If I was to get rid of this car I would trade it for a 1978 Lil Red Express truck.
Anybody remember the paint flaking off on especially the silver after about a year? My Dad was so mad they wouldn't fix it he put on the back window of our 1976 Malibu Classic wagon, "Original GM paint job" and left it on there forever. Sad part it was a good car but they still hadn't figured out the unleaded, catalytic converter yet so it smelled like rotten eggs when you got out of it. :)
Yes! Had an aunt who bought a silver 74' Impala new and within two years silver dollar sized blisters of rust were all over the place. The last time I rode in the car I opened the passenger side rear door to get in and some spring part popped off and hit me in the shin. Her brother who spent many years on a body and assembly line for FoMoCo said he thought GM used recycled steel when the made the car. The powertrain (350) was solid though.
Yeah we had a silver 1978 LeMans Safari. Silver faded out quick and Dad had it repainted it white. No power but the 301 Pontiac was dead on reliable. We took that thing on tons of family vacations.
@@erickrobertson7089, It wouldn't have been because it was recycled because nearly all new steel contains recycled steel. It must have been a poor primer, undercoat, steel treatment, or paint.
@@cityofabscissae yeah they used a water based paint that was weak as it was, combine that with salty roads or plugged up drains in the body and you got rust
We had a ‘76 Malibu Classic wagon. Three-seater, faux wood trim… vinyl seats that’d blister your butt during mid-Mississippi summers. It was a virtual tank, and I still remember when Mom and my little sister got hit in it. We had this odd five-way intersection at the end of the block. They were turning left, when Miss Thang came flying by, hit the driver’s sidd rear quarter panel. Spun them 180. The Chevy had… a gash in the fender, and the spare tire got punctured. The Toyota that still had the sticker in the window? Looked like a stomped-on beer can.
I had a 73 malibu,chevelle with the 350. I stripped the garbage off the engine that was choking it. Put a manual choke pn her 4 barrel carter carburetor and a new 4 peed shift kit. I bought her for 300. Put 600 in her and got a great car
Ironically, nowadays hardly anyone knows how to even use a manual choke. The last vehicle I had with a manual choke was my 1969 Ford Truck, even my 1967 Chrysler Imperial had an automatic choke on it. There was a Hyundai with a manual choke as late as the mid 1980's, though.
Last year for the Colonnades. Sadly, you could no longer get a Chevy coupe with the thin C pillar and triangular quarter window the Colonnades were born with, even the base Malibu being infected with opera window disease that year. (Buick and Olds' base coupes still had the big windows though). But my favorite Colonnade was always the 4-door sedan; again much lighter and airier than the equivalent Ford Torino or Mopar B-body.
I had one like the 305ci Malibu Classic sedan the same silver-blue color shown here. I bought it cheap from a friend at work, to add to my small stable of GM cars. It ran perfectly and rode like a dream... eventually got tired of it and moved on and sold it for $1 to another friend who needed some wheels.
As a rural kid, I'd learned to drive much earlier, but when I was in high school Driver's Ed was a mandatory course. You also had to have taken Driver's Ed if you wanted to get your license at age 16; otherwise you had to wait until you were 18. Our Driver's Ed car was a '76 Malibu Classic sedan, and while my school district had enough money to provide the car, it wasn't modified with a second steering wheel and brake as some of them were. Ours had only the extra brake pedal for the instructor, and it had been installed badly. Apparently things weren't bled the way they should have been, and the pedal on the driver's side was very squishy. The first thing the instructor had to tell me when I drove it was "pump the brake, pump the brake" - and that was to get it to work at all. Then I had to keep pumping it, because it was January and the streets in our little town were still covered in snow and ice. As a matter of fact, it was snowing at the time. Hardest part for me was getting used to the automatic transmission - I'd learned on a manual.
I would never have sent a 15-16 year old kid out in a car with squishy brakes. That is an accident waiting to happen. It was also needless, back then brakes were easy to bleed on a new car (that wasn't always the case on a car that had been through a few winters) and the shop teacher could probably have done it with a student's help to pump the brakes. When I was a kid driver training was at 14 and once finished you were immediately issued an unrestricted license. I think by 1976 the age had been increased to 16 even in late bloomer Michigan.
@@mharris5047 You're completely right, of course. In my case it was Illinois, and at least the license I got on my 16th birthday was unrestricted. Farm kids could drive farm equipment and grain trucks on the road, if I recall correctly, at either 14 or 15, but were not allowed to carry passengers. Our school was too small to have an auto shop but as far as that goes, all of the male teachers and half of the female ones could probably have bled those brakes. They did finally get them fixed, which was another adjustment after we'd gotten used to the squishy ones. That driver's ed teacher and I did not get along particularly well, mostly because he was one of the coaches and I was/am a terrible athlete. I give him credit for teaching me exactly one thing - how to parallel park. When I was a kid, the rule in our house was that you were taught to drive as soon as your feet could reach the pedals. As kids my siblings and I thought it was cool (and it was) but I grew to realize that it was my parents thinking "we live in the boonies, 9-1-1 is unheard of, and if something bad happens you kids need to know how to drive each other to the hospital." Thankfully that philosophy was never tested, but although they did a great job of teaching me to drive a three-on-the-tree with a manual choke and power nothin', they'd never had a chance to teach me to parallel park. The DE teacher taught us a good technique, and I always liken it to making pie crust from scratch - it's actually very easy, but you have to do it right, and there are no shortcuts.
My first car after my discharge was a 76 Malibu classic with a 350 ci plant. Took of the catalytic converter, replaced the muffler with cherry bomb and that thing moved!
Glad to find this my gpa had a bunch of Chevrolets. My Nana would call his "junk" cars. They got us to where we would go. Fun times 😀 nothing like classics.
A lot depends on how you maintain your cars. I had a 1969 Ford F250 that once I was done with it at home was re-purposed as a truck for the family logging business. In the mid 1980's my mother had a 1978 Ford Thunderbird, the joke was that the 69 Ford Truck ran better than my mother's car (she drove the hell out of the car and didn't always have the maintenance kept up).
@@mharris5047 true. He kept alot, he couldn't stand to get rid of his cars. The Voltswagen beetle,a 69 I believe, Volvo,then obviously his Chevys, we had alot of fun with the hatch backs. Lol 😂 yeah. We used to have this one we called,the "batmobile" batcar!! This car was huge! My Aunt the hell out of.
One selling point was that the suspension parameters were decided on with the help of a computer. Since it was such a novel idea at the time. I do love how it handles.
Where's the El Camino which in the GMC lineup would be the Sprint? I'm pretty sure they were built off the Malibu body. And Ford El Camino off the Torino line. I did not realize we were already using the metric litre system rather than cubic inch. Emission and bumper safety requirements really took their toll between 76 and 78 model years.
Me gusta el carro un Chevrolet Malibú Classic 1977; coupé sedan, ranchera y la Chevrolet El Camino Classic de la versión Pickup del Chevrolet Malibú Classic; cuándo se estabilize todo en Venezuela mi país si Dios quiere; voy a mandar a traer una Chevrolet Malibú Classic Station Wagon 1977; para aprender a manejar y mantenerla; para uso necesario saludos y buenas noches.
To see how they take a collision check out Real stories of the highway patrol. .a 76/77 classic sedan was hit by an oil delivery truck and crushed the roof flat like a pancake .worst crash id ever saw..
That was true of most cars back then. My mother rolled a late 70's Datsun, the thing ran fine even after the rollover but the back of the roof was crushed, she said that if someone had been in the back seat he/she would have died.
What the mighty Chevelle was reduced to, 305 smog motor with a bore and stroke that you couldn't build any horsepower with and a good ole Catalytic converter just to be sure the thing will barely get out of its own way!!! Death of the muscle car!!!
I briefly had a 1977 Malibu with the 6 cylinder. Horrible car. The car was too heavy for the engine and it got worse gas mileage than my aunts 1977 Malibu Classic with the v8. The car also would not start in damp weather.
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My first car was a 1976 Chevy Malibu Classic Coupe. It only had the straight 6 but that engine was bullet proof. Easy to tune-up and work on for a 17 yr. old. Great car!
Mine was the same, was a grey model that I later painted Red. Although it came with the smaller V8 which I replaced with a standard 350. Once I added glasspacks, that car was so sweet.
I had a 1982 Buick Electra with the six cylinder engine, it ran perfectly even after over 200K miles (it was a very nice driving car). My brother crashed it one day but by that time the transmission needed a rebuild or replacement anyway. No one was hurt in the crash although it did cost my insurance company $500 for the other guy's door.
Oh MAN. Our neighbor got a brand new 1976 Malibu Classic station wagon with the wood appliqué when I was young, and that thing was THE BOMB! I begged my parents for one.
"Special Landau model identification",what an era. Swivel buckets are kinda cool.
My first car was a cream-colored 1973 Chevy Malibu. The horsepower of that V-8 engine was amazing. That car could MOVE!
Enjoyed this. Reminds me of the brand new 77 Malibu Classic Landau I ordered back in the day. Black with gold pinstripes and firethorn red velour interior. Rally wheels with Uniroyal raised white letter radial tires. Bumper strips, power windows, p. seat, p. trunk, intermittent wipers, a/c, sport suspension, aux lighting. Still have the "buyers order" from the dealership, and dealer brochure. Cost was about $6000. Got a 305. Should've gotten a 350, but was trying to get better mileage since I drove a lot, and gas prices were unstable at the time. Knowing what I know now, the mileage probably wouldn't have been much different, and the 350 power would've been better. But still, it was a beautiful car in and out and drove great.
Just watched a guy on TH-cam who took a rusty 77 Malibu Landau he fixed up and it is really nice. It is black black with firethorne red interior. It had a 305 that it was born with but now has a 350 with a 4 barrel. His channel misses called Clunkers and Classics. It's a good series.
I had the 1976 and the 1977....the 1977 had the 305 4bb and 1976 had the 2bbl 350. The 1976 has the light blue interior with buckets and exterior.....the 1977 had the Red Landau with red Landau, red pin stripes and various interior parts. They were EXCELLENT cars❤🎉
Thanks for the video! I can’t believe people were supposed to change their spark plugs every 8,000 miles on 1974 models like they said in this video. I seem to remember around then it was to clean them at 15,000, and replace at 30,000. I think an older lady/librarian type would be thrilled with this car today, the way it rides like a dream.
I didn't own one of these but I remember that Ford was still suggesting a tune up every 7,500 miles and an oil and filter change every 3,000 miles on the 1978 Thunderbird. By 1983 they were recommending tune ups every 30,000 miles on the Lincoln Town Car, I think the oil and filter changes were still suggested every 3,000 miles. My current van suggests a tune up every 100,000 miles (however, it takes special spark plugs that cost seven times as much as a plug for an older car, the older style 30,000 miles plugs are available as an aftermarket part for the van although I pay the premium for the factory style 100,000 mile spark plugs).
Shows the lost art of the parallel parking job at about the 6:35 mark. People in modern Civics wouldn’t even attempt that job nowadays.
I had a '77 Malibu Classic with swivel buckets and console in 1977..Now own a '75 2 Dr coupe...Base model.
This was the generation of Chevelle that always sparked my interest even when our lives were fast becoming a freak show!!
Back in 1988, I bought a Malibu Classic sedan from an older couple as a commuter/work vehicle. I think I paid about $900. It lasted a,few years and the 305 blew a headgasket at 155k miles. I had a remanufactured 350 crate intalled for about what I paid for the car. I drove it several more years after that.
Coronado High School drivers training car was a Malibu Classic Wagon that I drove all around San Diego area when learning to drive. Red, like the car shown but no roof rack. They also had a Malibu Classic sedan, but I didn't drive it.
My dad had a 74 Buick Century that had similar styling as this Malibu. It became my first car in ‘79. It drove great, especially on curvy Sunset Blvd. So smooth. It had a peculiar sound when accelerating. It was gun metal gray with red carpet and white seats.
I built Buick Century's at Fischer body in Flint Michigan in 1973 !!! I think I remember your car on the line !!!!😀😀😀😀😀🚘🚘🚘🍺🍺
@@artmchugh5644 Well you did a fine job. Thank you. Was one of my dads favorite Buicks he ever owned.
@@larkatmic I also worked at Applegate Chevy in Flint in 73 . Saw lots of Malibu and VEGAS !!!!!😀😀😀😀🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🍺🍺
@@artmchugh5644 My step dad worked at the GM plant in Van Nuys from 1962 to 1981. He built Chevy impalas and Cameros. I miss that guy and those times. Americans liked each other better back then. I think it’s because we built and made our own stuff.
Those side rub strips started drooping about six months in. GM used some cheap ass glue to put them on. Other than that, these were solid cars.
Love the 70s car vids
I'll take the 60s up to the last year which is 72 . Like all the muscle 💪 cars of the 60s and early 70s.
My buddy had a 77 Malibu class landau in dark blue green with lt green top I had gotten the 77 Monte Carlo landau I still have it today.
In the 70's - "Midsize"
Now - Gargantuan
The downsized ‘77 Impala was about the same size as the ‘77 Malibu externally. Pretty wild. The ‘78 Malibus were Nova sized.
My first car was ‘77 Chev Malibu. It had a 350 engine with a lot of zip!
I had a 76 back in 86 and it ran like a top.
The cars of my teenage years.
Sadly😫
I had a 1973 Monte Carlo in 1977 and it was a really good car. My sister also had a 1973 Monte Carlo at the same time but hers was very low miles when she got it, less then 10,000 and looked brand new.
1977 was the last year for GM's 'full-sized' mid-size cars. 😉
My grandmother had one in the early 90s
I currently own a 1976 Malibu Classic black in color and rides on 8" wide corvette rallies with the center caps on them.
The original motor was a 305 engine which now has been changed out to a 1994 Throttle Body Injected 454 with the first generation electronic overdrive transmission
(electronic version of the 700R4 transmission). Footnote: they carried the 454 up until mid-year of 1975.
The original engine was 210hp and this 454 is 235hp. Not much change in horsepower but makes up for it in about 300ft lbs of torque
I did buy it from a little old lady in 1986 and have owned it since ( I am the second owner of it).
Plus this car still has not turned over 100,000 miles
If I was to get rid of this car I would trade it for a 1978 Lil Red Express truck.
My dad had a 78 model. Two door, automatic windows,centre console,air conditioning, power steering, rear window defroster, am FM radio and 8 track .
'76 Malibu Classic..forest green exterior lime green interior with white pleathor seats..my childhood..preferred the '68 Caprice my father had before!
Anybody remember the paint flaking off on especially the silver after about a year? My Dad was so mad they wouldn't fix it he put on the back window of our 1976 Malibu Classic wagon, "Original GM paint job" and left it on there forever. Sad part it was a good car but they still hadn't figured out the unleaded, catalytic converter yet so it smelled like rotten eggs when you got out of it. :)
Yes! Had an aunt who bought a silver 74' Impala new and within two years silver dollar sized blisters of rust were all over the place. The last time I rode in the car I opened the passenger side rear door to get in and some spring part popped off and hit me in the shin. Her brother who spent many years on a body and assembly line for FoMoCo said he thought GM used recycled steel when the made the car. The powertrain (350) was solid though.
Yeah we had a silver 1978 LeMans Safari. Silver faded out quick and Dad had it repainted it white. No power but the 301 Pontiac was dead on reliable. We took that thing on tons of family vacations.
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@@erickrobertson7089, It wouldn't have been because it was recycled because nearly all new steel contains recycled steel. It must have been a poor primer, undercoat, steel treatment, or paint.
@@cityofabscissae yeah they used a water based paint that was weak as it was, combine that with salty roads or plugged up drains in the body and you got rust
I want a Malibu Classic Station Wagon!
We had a ‘76 Malibu Classic wagon. Three-seater, faux wood trim… vinyl seats that’d blister your butt during mid-Mississippi summers. It was a virtual tank, and I still remember when Mom and my little sister got hit in it. We had this odd five-way intersection at the end of the block. They were turning left, when Miss Thang came flying by, hit the driver’s sidd rear quarter panel. Spun them 180. The Chevy had… a gash in the fender, and the spare tire got punctured. The Toyota that still had the sticker in the window? Looked like a stomped-on beer can.
I remember them well. Not the best, but definitely not the worst.
There was still an Estate package in case you forgot. And don't forget about the Laguna!
I had a 73 malibu,chevelle with the 350. I stripped the garbage off the engine that was choking it. Put a manual choke pn her 4 barrel carter carburetor and a new 4 peed shift kit. I bought her for 300. Put 600 in her and got a great car
Ironically, nowadays hardly anyone knows how to even use a manual choke. The last vehicle I had with a manual choke was my 1969 Ford Truck, even my 1967 Chrysler Imperial had an automatic choke on it. There was a Hyundai with a manual choke as late as the mid 1980's, though.
What do you stripp off?
Last year for the Colonnades. Sadly, you could no longer get a Chevy coupe with the thin C pillar and triangular quarter window the Colonnades were born with, even the base Malibu being infected with opera window disease that year. (Buick and Olds' base coupes still had the big windows though). But my favorite Colonnade was always the 4-door sedan; again much lighter and airier than the equivalent Ford Torino or Mopar B-body.
My favorite Colonnade was the four door sedans as well!.😎
"Rosewood wood-grain vinyl appliqué" - great name for fake wood panelling!
I had one for 9 years great car
Best goddamn car on the lot…
amazing that colour-matched steering column was standard! my aunt had a base model and evrn as young as i was, i knew it was sorta crappy
Nicely styled cars.
L🤣L!!!!
I had one like the 305ci Malibu Classic sedan the same silver-blue color shown here. I bought it cheap from a friend at work, to add to my small stable of GM cars. It ran perfectly and rode like a dream... eventually got tired of it and moved on and sold it for $1 to another friend who needed some wheels.
Our equivalent here in the UK was the Ford Cortina.
All day long chevelle chevelle chevelle was the car back in the day
As a rural kid, I'd learned to drive much earlier, but when I was in high school Driver's Ed was a mandatory course. You also had to have taken Driver's Ed if you wanted to get your license at age 16; otherwise you had to wait until you were 18. Our Driver's Ed car was a '76 Malibu Classic sedan, and while my school district had enough money to provide the car, it wasn't modified with a second steering wheel and brake as some of them were. Ours had only the extra brake pedal for the instructor, and it had been installed badly. Apparently things weren't bled the way they should have been, and the pedal on the driver's side was very squishy. The first thing the instructor had to tell me when I drove it was "pump the brake, pump the brake" - and that was to get it to work at all. Then I had to keep pumping it, because it was January and the streets in our little town were still covered in snow and ice. As a matter of fact, it was snowing at the time. Hardest part for me was getting used to the automatic transmission - I'd learned on a manual.
I would never have sent a 15-16 year old kid out in a car with squishy brakes. That is an accident waiting to happen. It was also needless, back then brakes were easy to bleed on a new car (that wasn't always the case on a car that had been through a few winters) and the shop teacher could probably have done it with a student's help to pump the brakes. When I was a kid driver training was at 14 and once finished you were immediately issued an unrestricted license. I think by 1976 the age had been increased to 16 even in late bloomer Michigan.
@@mharris5047 You're completely right, of course. In my case it was Illinois, and at least the license I got on my 16th birthday was unrestricted. Farm kids could drive farm equipment and grain trucks on the road, if I recall correctly, at either 14 or 15, but were not allowed to carry passengers. Our school was too small to have an auto shop but as far as that goes, all of the male teachers and half of the female ones could probably have bled those brakes. They did finally get them fixed, which was another adjustment after we'd gotten used to the squishy ones. That driver's ed teacher and I did not get along particularly well, mostly because he was one of the coaches and I was/am a terrible athlete. I give him credit for teaching me exactly one thing - how to parallel park. When I was a kid, the rule in our house was that you were taught to drive as soon as your feet could reach the pedals. As kids my siblings and I thought it was cool (and it was) but I grew to realize that it was my parents thinking "we live in the boonies, 9-1-1 is unheard of, and if something bad happens you kids need to know how to drive each other to the hospital." Thankfully that philosophy was never tested, but although they did a great job of teaching me to drive a three-on-the-tree with a manual choke and power nothin', they'd never had a chance to teach me to parallel park. The DE teacher taught us a good technique, and I always liken it to making pie crust from scratch - it's actually very easy, but you have to do it right, and there are no shortcuts.
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Yep ,my Ma had a dark maroon 1976 Malibu wagon with dark maroon vinyl bench seat
My first car after my discharge was a 76 Malibu classic with a 350 ci plant. Took of the catalytic converter, replaced the muffler with cherry bomb and that thing moved!
Glad to find this my gpa had a bunch of Chevrolets. My Nana would call his "junk" cars. They got us to where we would go. Fun times 😀 nothing like classics.
A lot depends on how you maintain your cars. I had a 1969 Ford F250 that once I was done with it at home was re-purposed as a truck for the family logging business. In the mid 1980's my mother had a 1978 Ford Thunderbird, the joke was that the 69 Ford Truck ran better than my mother's car (she drove the hell out of the car and didn't always have the maintenance kept up).
@@mharris5047 true. He kept alot, he couldn't stand to get rid of his cars. The Voltswagen beetle,a 69 I believe, Volvo,then obviously his Chevys, we had alot of fun with the hatch backs. Lol 😂 yeah. We used to have this one we called,the "batmobile" batcar!! This car was huge! My Aunt the hell out of.
I remember these and Monte Carlos being popular on the Figure 8 and Bomber exhibition racing series back in the 90s
Wow. This car was really advanced for its time.
You think so?
Nah, foreign cars 🚗 were already doing that way before raggedy American cars.
One selling point was that the suspension parameters were decided on with the help of a computer. Since it was such a novel idea at the time. I do love how it handles.
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Where's the El Camino which in the GMC lineup would be the Sprint? I'm pretty sure they were built off the Malibu body. And Ford El Camino off the Torino line. I did not realize we were already using the metric litre system rather than cubic inch. Emission and bumper safety requirements really took their toll between 76 and 78 model years.
The station wagon reminds me of the family truckster. 😂
1977 models
Oh but the earlier Malibus…….dreamy
Landau? Is this how the millennium falcon got its start?
7:25 - Is that Marge Simpson’s station wagon?
I’ve always thought that the Simpson wagon was a colonnade wagon
Me gusta el carro un Chevrolet Malibú Classic 1977; coupé sedan, ranchera y la Chevrolet El Camino Classic de la versión Pickup del Chevrolet Malibú Classic; cuándo se estabilize todo en Venezuela mi país si Dios quiere; voy a mandar a traer una Chevrolet Malibú Classic Station Wagon 1977; para aprender a manejar y mantenerla; para uso necesario saludos y buenas noches.
A perfect car for a serial killer.
why does it say chevelle on the number plate
To see how they take a collision check out Real stories of the highway patrol. .a 76/77 classic sedan was hit by an oil delivery truck and crushed the roof flat like a pancake .worst crash id ever saw..
That was true of most cars back then. My mother rolled a late 70's Datsun, the thing ran fine even after the rollover but the back of the roof was crushed, she said that if someone had been in the back seat he/she would have died.
What the mighty Chevelle was reduced to, 305 smog motor with a bore and stroke that you couldn't build any horsepower with and a good ole Catalytic converter just to be sure the thing will barely get out of its own way!!! Death of the muscle car!!!
That's why you went down the street a bought a Pontiac with a 400...
1977 not 1970's
I briefly had a 1977 Malibu with the 6 cylinder. Horrible car. The car was too heavy for the engine and it got worse gas mileage than my aunts 1977 Malibu Classic with the v8. The car also would not start in damp weather.
The paint on the back left of the wagon doesn’t match up. 🤦🏻♂️
First 😬
This was America's first generation POS vehicle!!!