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Looky! Looky what I found!
by Roadcaptain S3 Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:40 pm
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My first G3. My 1974 Malibu Classic, my very first car.
Oh I miss her, This was my folks driveway circa 1985
Been looking for these pix for months-wish i could find the car
And yes, thats what's left of a neighbors VEGA in the background
PLUS I actually figgered out how to post a pic.
[/img]My first G3. My 1974 Malibu Classic, my very first car.
Oh I miss her, This was my folks driveway circa 1985
Been looking for these pix for months-wish i could find the car
And yes, thats what's left of a neighbors VEGA in the background
PLUS I actually figgered out how to post a pic.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by 1973 454 MONTE Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:48 pm
good job on the picture posting.
looks like a landau top and 14" wheels.
nice looking malibu.
looks like a landau top and 14" wheels.
nice looking malibu.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by 1973 454 MONTE Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:48 pm
I wish I took more pictures of my first car. Bought a 1975 monte in 1984 and repainted it in 1988.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by Roadcaptain S3 Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:52 pm
1973 454 MONTE wrote:good job on the picture posting.
looks like a landau top and 14" wheels.
nice looking malibu.
Yup-landau with the 14 inch "nova/camaro" rallys, tan interior, swivels the works-even had a "impala" radio antenna on the back --WWWAAAHHHHH
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by 1973 454 MONTE Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:55 pm
Roadcaptain S3 wrote:1973 454 MONTE wrote:good job on the picture posting.
looks like a landau top and 14" wheels.
nice looking malibu.
Yup-landau with the 14 inch "nova/camaro" rallys, tan interior, swivels the works-even had a "impala" radio antenna on the back --WWWAAAHHHHH
AND you let it go??????????????? WHY????????
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by Roadcaptain S3 Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:56 pm
I would have thought that baby blue would suck, but that looks pretty darn good 
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by Roadcaptain S3 Wed Feb 17, 2010 8:59 pm
Oh, hell. I got a "grown up" job when i was 22, and I thought rolling into the lot in that with the glasspacks would make me look too redneck. Sold it to a guy for $800 and bought a baby blue (Iswear) 83 cougar.
Went looking for it not long ago and found the guy I sold it to. he said the last time he saw it, it was in his dads garage in 200 pieces, and that was 10 years ago. DAMMIT!
so i got the guna instead.
Went looking for it not long ago and found the guy I sold it to. he said the last time he saw it, it was in his dads garage in 200 pieces, and that was 10 years ago. DAMMIT!
so i got the guna instead.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by 1973 454 MONTE Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:07 pm
Roadcaptain S3 wrote:I would have thought that baby blue would suck, but that looks pretty darn good
i thought the color looked kinda cool.not to many of those that color floating around.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by 1973 454 MONTE Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:10 pm
Roadcaptain S3 wrote:Oh, hell. I got a "grown up" job when i was 22, and I thought rolling into the lot in that with the glasspacks would make me look too redneck. Sold it to a guy for $800 and bought a baby blue (Iswear) 83 cougar.
Went looking for it not long ago and found the guy I sold it to. he said the last time he saw it, it was in his dads garage in 200 pieces, and that was 10 years ago. DAMMIT!
so i got the guna instead.
I junked mine in 91. took it to a scrap yard and watched the crane pick it up and put it on top of a pile
but i have seen other ones on the net and brought back some memories.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by 74MonteCarlo Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:25 am
That's one good lookin Malibu!!!!!
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by Roadcaptain S3 Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:25 pm
Thanks, Kyle, and pay attention to to of the old guys whining about givin up their first cars. TAKE HEED YOUNG MAN AND DON"T DO IT!!
Couple more shots on my photobucket link if anyone's interested.
Anybody else got a first car picture or story?
Couple more shots on my photobucket link if anyone's interested.
Anybody else got a first car picture or story?
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by The Dude Thu Feb 18, 2010 3:58 pm
Dig the root beer brown!
I think I've told my story a few times, but here's a crappy pic of my old 70 Chevelle in the background (my first CAR). My very first vehicle was a 68 short wide Chevy, but I never drove it so I count the 70 as #1. Yes that's the old 76 in the foreground & sorry I don't have any other pics at the moment (I'll have to dig). When this picture was taken, I was actually in the process of restoring it (restomod??). A few months later, a freak accident burnt the car to nothing. Just months after that is when I lost my 76 & my interest in A-bodies went bye bye for a couple of years while I dabbled with Eclipses.
I think I've told my story a few times, but here's a crappy pic of my old 70 Chevelle in the background (my first CAR). My very first vehicle was a 68 short wide Chevy, but I never drove it so I count the 70 as #1. Yes that's the old 76 in the foreground & sorry I don't have any other pics at the moment (I'll have to dig). When this picture was taken, I was actually in the process of restoring it (restomod??). A few months later, a freak accident burnt the car to nothing. Just months after that is when I lost my 76 & my interest in A-bodies went bye bye for a couple of years while I dabbled with Eclipses.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by 74MonteCarlo Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:19 pm
The Monte is not my first car. My first car - a 74 Chevelle - was stolen.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by G3NUT Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:43 pm
Here's a picture of my first car 72 malibu 307 2bbl auto. it was orange originally.
I bought this in 1990 for $400. I was 15 years old and worked on it allmost everyday that summer. I never got to drive it though...i sold it before i got my licence so i could buy a 69 chevelle 396bb 4 speed instead.
Now that was a fun car!
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I bought this in 1990 for $400. I was 15 years old and worked on it allmost everyday that summer. I never got to drive it though...i sold it before i got my licence so i could buy a 69 chevelle 396bb 4 speed instead.
Now that was a fun car!
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by Roadcaptain S3 Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:02 pm
74MonteCarlo wrote:The Monte is not my first car. My first car - a 74 Chevelle - was stolen.
I rememeber now, sorry for the salt in the wound
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by JB2wheeler Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:19 pm
My first car was a 1954 Furd 4 door. I did all the body work and everything else except the actual building of the engine. I bought a 352 Furd engine and had it bored and stroked to 428 and pu 2 four barrels and the wildest cam in that I could find. It was a screamer, but I never could beat my dad's 60 Chevy, which had a 409 in it. They can be seen at http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/19847223
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by 74MonteCarlo Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:45 pm
Roadcaptain S3 wrote:74MonteCarlo wrote:The Monte is not my first car. My first car - a 74 Chevelle - was stolen.
I rememeber now, sorry for the salt in the wound
Lol, don't worry about it. I'm totally over it. It was 2 and a half years ago. My MC is a much better car than that Chevelle was.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by Roadcaptain S3 Thu Feb 18, 2010 6:46 pm
JB-Have I seen one of the Powell's cars at a car show that somebody restored? Seem to remember seeing one like it at last years Carl Casper show.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by JB2wheeler Thu Feb 18, 2010 10:53 pm
Yes, there is a replica on the show circuit. It is about 6 or 8 years old. The guy was trying to pass it off as the original until I told him who I was. Seemed like a nice guy. He had the car for sale when I talked to him about 2 or 3 years ago. Funny thing, when you get to my age you have a hard time with time frames like that.
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by ant7377 Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:30 am
The Monte to the left is my first car ! 20 years 
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by Roadcaptain S3 Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:09 am
ant7377 wrote:The Monte to the left is my first car ! 20 years
You still have it?
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Re: Looky! Looky what I found!
by knightfan26917 Wed Feb 24, 2010 12:44 am
Roadcaptain S3 wrote:Anybody else got a first car picture or story?
First ... NICE pic, Roadcaptain ... love old pics like that.
Second ... yep ... I still have my first car, 1979 Monte Carlo Landau:
http://www.chevyasylum.com/cort/mc1979/79monte.html
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