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by 76ANOTHERDAYChevelle Tue Feb 25, 2020 1:31 pm

Hello everyone, glad to be here. I just picked up a clean 1976 Malibu Classic this past weekend. Had been looking for one for awhile now was happy to find a really nice low mileage one close to home. My parents but a '76 in 1978 and we grew up with that as our daily driver. Myself, my brother and my sister all used it at one point or anther as our primary driver as well as we all reached that driving age. Sadly it got very neglected and the body just went away on it (one winter in Ohio! we live in Kansas). We still have it and I would LOVE to restore it still someday but I'm glad to have found another one to replace it for now.

by 77camino Tue Feb 25, 2020 3:18 pm

Welcome! There are many members here that are replacing their first car. What part of Kansas are you from?

by RossM Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:52 pm

Welcome to the fold. Pretty good people here, as I have found. Enjoy your stay !

by fasrnur Tue Feb 25, 2020 6:18 pm

Welcome aboard sir. I've had mine now for 4 years and I found it in a barn. Still a work in progress. But aren't they all? ~~Introduce Yourself~~ - Page 18 Barn11

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by Limey SE Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:05 pm

welcome Aboard Look forward to seeing your Build, Both of my Cars came from Wichita Kansas Same owners .... all but floors survived so far

by thatfnthing Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:01 am

Welcome aboard! Looking forward to photos!

by 76ANOTHERDAYChevelle Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:04 am

77camino wrote:Welcome! There are many members here that are replacing their first car. What part of Kansas are you from?

I'm in McPherson, about an hour north of Wichita.

by 76ANOTHERDAYChevelle Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:11 am

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Hopefully get better pictures this weekend.

by 77camino Wed Feb 26, 2020 10:47 am

Very nice! Darn! I’m in the KC area. McPherson...GO BULLPUPS!

by Homer J Mon Jun 22, 2020 6:33 pm

Hi all. I’m Jim from southern Maryland. My ride of choice is a 1974 Grand Am with a 455. Starlight black with Oxblood interior.

When I was in high school, 1980ish, I had a 74 Grand Am then as well. I always regretted selling it and swore someday I would have another. That day came last fall when I found one in Albany New York. Drove up there over a long weekend In October and brought her home.

by Mcarlo77 Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:35 am

Welcome to the site! Have always loved the looks of the Grand Am. Just don't see many of them, unfortunately. Bucket seats? Console? Factory trumpet horns?

by Homer J Tue Jun 23, 2020 10:45 am

Yes to all three. I was quite surprised it still had the trumpet horns. The one I had in high school had them too. Funny story about those horns. I grew up in a resort town that had various amusement areas. One place had a water slide and bumper boats. The bumper boat place had a horn that they blew when your time was up, and it sounded exactly like my Grand Am horns. I liked to drive past and blow my horn just to watch everyone think they were getting cheated on their time in the boats.

by Mcarlo77 Tue Jun 23, 2020 3:25 pm

Ha...great story! The sound is so unique. I pulled a pair of working horns off a '74 Grand Am sitting in a JY in my area and plan to mount them on my '75 Laguna.

by Limey SE Tue Jun 23, 2020 6:33 pm

Nice welcome to the site ..... Sounds like a cool Car When your Ready for a Shirt for your Car let I print them LOL

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by muldokken Wed Dec 15, 2021 6:16 pm

Hello, my name is Lynn. Was a GM master tech for 30+ years, ran my own shop for a few years till I retired. Now I am building and working on my own stuff. Projects include well in the car Field anyway 2 Chevelle Laguna's 73 and 74 S3 Canadian built car. Got docs from GM Canada George zapora. 2 64 corvairs, 2 88 Corolla GTS ae92's and a 76 GMC shorty 4x4. The 74 is a factory low mile numbers matching 454 non ac car and the 73 is and odd ball Leeds built car that was built like a Malibu SS . Round guages an7 strato buckets, center console and ss tail lights. Found the build sheet intact and in good shape under the tank. So it has docs. 73 was a 350 car and recently put a blueprint small block 454 in it and kept the number match 350. 74 is almost done, paint and body work this summer. 73 is half done. These will be driver's.

by Limey SE Wed Dec 15, 2021 7:50 pm

Welcome Aboard Lynn, Sounds Like some Nice Vehicles Please Visit the Project Pics section and start a Build thread on them if you would like, And can be one for each if you would like to keep them Separate Updates for each, You Usually have to wait 5 days to post pics.
Again Welcome from Admin of G3GM

by g3chevy / Mr Pontiac Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:19 pm

muldokken wrote:Hello, my name is Lynn. Was a GM master tech for 30+ years, ran my own shop for a few years till I retired. Now I am building and working on my own stuff. Projects include well in the car Field anyway 2 Chevelle Laguna's 73 and 74 S3 Canadian built car. Got docs from GM Canada George zapora. 2 64 corvairs, 2 88 Corolla GTS ae92's and a 76 GMC shorty 4x4. The 74 is a factory low mile numbers matching 454 non ac car and the 73 is and odd ball Leeds built car that was built like a Malibu SS . Round guages an7 strato buckets, center console and ss tail lights. Found the build sheet intact and in good shape under the tank. So it has docs. 73 was a 350 car and recently put a blueprint small block 454 in it and kept the number match 350. 74 is almost done, paint and body work this summer. 73 is half done. These will be driver's.

That's a bunch of cool cars you have in the corral! Welcome from Texas!

by muldokken Wed Dec 15, 2021 10:31 pm

Thanx bro

by 76Chevelle2Tone Thu May 12, 2022 12:06 am

Hi I'm Steve. I have a 76 Chevelle Classic sedan much like the pics posted by 76AnotherDay for the coupe. i got the car many years ago. I was just driving with someone else to lunch and they noticed an old car in a parking lot with a For Sale sign in the window. We stopped took a look at it and I got the phone number. Bought it cheap that afternoon. It was in good shape with low miles but had a few odd problems like a loose firewall mount and a glitchy starter motor. I got it reupholstered with Camaro cloth which looked good but was darn expensive even over 30 years ago. Didn't realize Camaro owners were rolling in cash. Of course sedan specific parts are always a concern. I have been pleasantly surprised at the general availability of parts for these A bodies though, as they are not the darling of the muscle car fans (even though the Laguna was a very decent stock car in its day). Anyway nice that this Forum exists.

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