Were the 80s bel-air's canadas version of the malibu??...kinda like the pontiac bonneville vs. the parasinne
What was your 1st car? & and 1st G-Body?
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I've been blessed to be the son of a very talented father when it comes to cars. Technically, my first car was going to be a 69 Buick skylark (GS clone) convertible. Red on red with a black rag and a 455 to boot.(not original to the car) We picked it up when I was 14 and slowly put a lot of love into it. The body came out gorgeous on it, but it still had flaws. The frame was getting weak in the back, needed a new top, interior needed some freshening up. What do you expect from a 40 year old driver, right? Well, about a year later my uncle, the owner of 18 years of a 86 GP 2+2 declared he was getting rid of it, and it was destined for the scrap yard. I remembered driving in this car alot in my childhood and my dads 81 Regal w/ a 350 and had a love for what I later found to be G-bodies at an early age. I knew a little bit about the 2+2 and decided I couldn't let it goto the scrapper, and I was the only one to save it from destiny. Alot of people told me I was crazy, letting the skylark go for this new rusty hulk. And that it was. My father says to this day he would have never brought this car back to life had I not desired it with such passion. A set of frame rails, a crate motor, custom colors decals, and a whole lot of headaches(I mean ALOT) and school money later, I've got a nice driver that draws attention wherever it goes. I graduate college in april, so if it all plays out ill have a stoutly built 200R4 and an 8.5 w/ 3.73s to go with it. A student budget is currently a huge drawback for the attention this car deserves. But it is still on the road with an odometer that has been rolled over 3 times. I don't think I'll ever part with it and look forward to re-building it again one day with a son of my own.
cdg1984 said:
Could be. There's the odd Malibu sedan from the 80's around here so I think it may be just a wagon thing. Couldn't find a lot of reading about it.
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That's a SWEET lookin ride. Anyways, my first car at 16 years old was a 1981 Buick Regal, 3.8L 54K miles. Slow as hell, exactly what the parents thought was safe, didn't keep me out of trouble though. I used to drag race it, and for some reason it would only run 21 seconds in the 1/4 mile, how embarrassing... I worked with it just tuning up and emptying the converter etc. and with just about no money in it, just tuning, I got it down to 19.3 seconds.... still horrible. 
First car at 16 was a Triumph TR3, fun and fast, but had to borrow my brother's 64 Galaxie wagon for dates unti I finally got me a van 
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My first official G body is the one I have now, an 81 Malibu wagon that I bought last September, but in 1978 I got a new Olds Cutlass wagon as a company vehicle and drove it for a couple of years as a computer field tech. It had a nice interior, very comfortable, but had that crappy little V8 (267 or something like that?). It seemed like I had to put it to the floor any time I needed to accelerate.
. My first official G body is the one I have now, an 81 Malibu wagon that I bought last September, but in 1978 I got a new Olds Cutlass wagon as a company vehicle and drove it for a couple of years as a computer field tech. It had a nice interior, very comfortable, but had that crappy little V8 (267 or something like that?). It seemed like I had to put it to the floor any time I needed to accelerate.
mine was actually my sisters first car which was an 81 elco. she gave it to me when i was 15 and said the engine locked up, later i found out she didnt give it an oil change for two years. now its my street/strip car!
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