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I have wanted one of these since high school and I have been looking since last Winter on the internet and asking everyone I meet if they know of one for sale. I finally found one too good to be true and went to see it and bought it. It is a numbers matching original car with 79800 miles totally unmolested 1967 Chevelle Malibu with a 250 ci straight six with a powerglide transmission. It should get 20mph, very rare to find one of these untouched down to the am radio in the dash. It also came with the original stock wheels and wheel covers which I will store for posterity.

 

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It's nice to see a car like that..stock.

Very nice find?

Those 250's are tough too.

As for the wheels...nah

Some stocker GM rally's though.

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Nice car!! My sister bought a '67 396 SS 4 speed convertible brand-spanking new. At the time I had a '65 Mustang with a 289 4-speed. She wanted to drive my Mustang one day and a couple of hours later called and asked "How in the heck do you get this car into reverse?" She didn't know that reverse was in a different location on a Ford top-loader than on a GM Muncie. ?

I have really fond memories of my dear departed sister and her Chevelle. Blasting along the freeway in New Orleans listening to Sgt. Pepper and flying through one-horse Mississippi towns after midnight at 100+ MPH, howling at the moon with my half-psychotic BIL behind the wheel.. There'd sometimes be a red light in the rear view but by then we were so far ahead they couldn't catch up! Those were the good old days!! 

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Congrats on a great find. This car is very well preserved!

 

My Malibu memories date back to High School in the mid-late 80’s. The cars were only 20 years old and teenagers could afford them.  This one particular ‘67 or so Malibu was a menace. A big block with a hurst floor shifter if I recall. He was the one to beat at the illegal street races. They took place 2am on Friday nights. Out in the industrial part of town. I was wow’d many times by it’s thunderous roar as it flew by. When I heard the owner blew up his clutch I envisioned shrapnel flying everywhere. 

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7 hours ago, MackTheFinger said:

Nice car!! My sister bought a '67 396 SS 4 speed convertible brand-spanking new. At the time I had a '65 Mustang with a 289 4-speed. She wanted to drive my Mustang one day and a couple of hours later called and asked "How in the heck do you get this car into reverse?" She didn't know that reverse was in a different location on a Ford top-loader than on a GM Muncie. ?

I have really fond memories of my dear departed sister and her Chevelle. Blasting along the freeway in New Orleans listening to Sgt. Pepper and flying through one-horse Mississippi towns after midnight at 100+ MPH, howling at the moon with my half-psychotic BIL behind the wheel.. There'd sometimes be a red light in the rear view but by then we were so far ahead they couldn't catch up! Those were the good old days!! 

- And fortunately some of us got through that phase without a serious problem...I remember it well, and then we cautioned our children...

 

linus6948, Great find on your Malibu .We all have vehicles that we fondly remember and continue looking for.Hard to find something that original. Enjoy!?

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Thanks for the kind words guys, I think of it as another antique time machine to try and catch Peter Pan in. Here is a shot of the car with the stock wheels.

 

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Very nice car! Unusual to find one with the six cylinder still in it. Most would have been changed out for a V8 by now. Personally, I love any inline six cylinder engine more than any other design. An inline six is supposed to be the best balanced of all engine configurations. Nearly all semis have an inline six cylinder for a reason no matter the manufacturer of the engine.

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 That's a fine looking automobile. My sister's car came with F70-14 tires and wire spoke hubcaps. The chrome mags look good on this car but my personal preference is the stock hubcaps. Not that anyone asked.. 

 

I bought a running, driving '67 SS396/Turbo400 Chevelle from an employee in 1978 for $350. The 396 was out of the car and it had a 283 in it when I bought it. I got the 396 with it, though. It was black with a red interior and had a big dent in the passenger side right behind the door. The guy I bought it from had another wrecked Chevelle that I cut the quarter out of and welded back in the one I bought, repainted the car and flamed it after a year or so. I replaced the 283/Turbo 400 combo with a 327/M22 Muncie combo and eventually sold the car with the original motor and transmission around 1990. I still have the 283, the 327, and the Muncie. It was a fun car. Lots of good memories..

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We had a slight break from ole man winter that gave me a chance to wash off the road dust from the 100 mile trip bringing the car home.

 

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I also added the for me the obligatory stainless exhaust tip.

 

 

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I replaced the Sun damaged dash pad with a reproduction

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I also mounted the passenger side mirror which was an option available only from the dealer in 1967

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Got around to finishing the new carpet install and cleaned and reinstalled the seat belts.

 

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Used an old soldering iron to create nice clean bolt holes in the carpet.

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Works very well, you first send an ice pick thru and then use that to guide the iron around the hole.

 

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Took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather we had last week to clean up some of the tarnished brightwork on the Chevelle, I used the aluminum foil and water method and as always it did a fine job.

 

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Replaced the valve seals using a valve spring compressor and an air line made to screw in like a spark plug. I used 90psi of air to keep the valves closed, it worked well. The original seals came out like brittle plastic often shattering into pieces, they were long past their useful life.

 

 

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On ‎1‎/‎22‎/‎2020 at 9:17 AM, linus6948 said:

Took advantage of the unseasonably warm weather we had last week to clean up some of the tarnished brightwork on the Chevelle, I used the aluminum foil and water method and as always it did a fine job.

 

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Never heard of the aluminum foil and water method before. Going to have to give it a try! Does it work on stainless and chrome trim?

 

PS - I love inline six engines. I believe they are the best balanced of all engine configurations. All the big semis have inline sixes no matter who provides the engines. A little bigger than yours though. :lol:

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