After lusting for one of these since they were new, i bought my first one. Dallas, 1989, it was a trade-in at the original selling dealer, who wholesaled it to a note lot. Traded my '70 Lemans Sport and some cash for it (yeah, I wanted a Malibu that badly).
Looked for over a year to find one that didn't have a vinyl top.
305/TH200, 2.29 (woohoo!) axle. Camel bench cloth interior. Photo is after i gave it a good hand polishing shortly after purchase and a $100 set of Michelin new takeoffs from a co-worker's brother's new import pickup.
Car had a glovebox full of receipts...including an engine overhaul by the dealership at something like 21000 miles. Not a warranty claim, was a couple thousand dollars, as I recall. Oddly, still had the TH200 in it...until the 355 I installed a few years later killed it
Looked for over a year to find one that didn't have a vinyl top.305/TH200, 2.29 (woohoo!) axle. Camel bench cloth interior. Photo is after i gave it a good hand polishing shortly after purchase and a $100 set of Michelin new takeoffs from a co-worker's brother's new import pickup.
Car had a glovebox full of receipts...including an engine overhaul by the dealership at something like 21000 miles. Not a warranty claim, was a couple thousand dollars, as I recall. Oddly, still had the TH200 in it...until the 355 I installed a few years later killed it
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