Not sure who is still monitoring from 7 years ago, but I am back!!! In fact my new malibu is my old malibu!! Forced to sell it to take care of family matters at the time. Sold it for cash and a transmission for my son's car. I never got the transmission and he bailed and ended up getting arrested for kidnapping charges. At that time I had no idea where the car was, I spent a lot of time looking but had to give up. One day I get a facebook message from a guy asking if I owned one at some point. It was abandoned and left on his mothers property and he was going to build it for his son. He was asking if I still had the title, which I did not. At that point I was okay, knowing it was going to someone that was going to put love into it and keep it running. Two days ago I saw a 78 malibu on facebook marketplace that was from Texas, it showed the door open and the original green paint could be seen, I'l admit I got a little emotional after seeing that color as it is what mine was originally. I did not purse the car, honestly I am not looking for another project at this time. Yesterday the add came up again and looked at it for a bit and then looked at the seller, not someone I know but looking at his profile it reminds me that I need to schedule an appt with a friend of his that does PDR on my wife's trans am. I contacted the PDR guy and tell him the story of how I found him and he tells me he knows the car and the long list of parts that he has. At this time I am thinking it sounds like a nice project that I should look a little deeper at, but nothing really lighting the fires for me. After the PDR appointment I have to source a new muffler for her car and call a shop that is owned by the guy that found my old malibu that was looking for the title. While talking with him about the muffler I ask him about my old malibu, he chuckles a bit and says "yeah, I sold it a few years back... in fact, it is back in town and for sale now" At this point my heart sank, I had to know, I asked and he confirmed the seller was the one I was looking at. So yesterday I went and looked at it, it was very different but it was in fact my old 78. It was stripped to the bones with plans to build a track car, it was black instead of the white it was when I sold it, interior is all gone, my motor and trans gone. I plan to build it back to a street/strip car, using the parts that come with it. Almost 500hp 5.3 fi, with a th400 trans, 8.8 rear with viking dual adjustable coil overs, trick chassis 8.8 swap kit.. Should make a great ride, and lots of fun for the family. Glad to be back in the g-body family again!!!
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