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This 1977 Chevrolet Malibu Would Make A Killer Sleeper…It Already Has The Look!


This 1977 Chevrolet Malibu Would Make A Killer Sleeper…It Already Has The Look!

Lately, there has been this strange desire that has been haunting me, one that will only be satisfied by a crew-cab sleeper of a car. I want the outside to look like nothing special is going on…this is simply the car that Grandma bought forty-odd years ago, and it has survived those years just about flawlessly. That isn’t an easy thing to do when most of the four-door sedans were scrapped, stripped to rebuild a two-door, used as engine donors and crushed, and the ones that do exist are now on the radar of speculators who think that anything that is over fifteen years old is an investment automobile. Why wouldn’t you do up a four-door? Don’t give me that tired, old, “four-doors aren’t cool” deal. Get past that. If a four-door wasn’t cool, nobody would have bought mid-1990s Impalas like they did.

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What you want to start out with is a car as nice as this 1977 Chevrolet Malibu is. I’m not 100% positive when Chevrolet decided to throw the “Chevelle” name into the scrap bin, but by 1977 it was all but a dead duck in the water. Whatever…this is the same Colonnade A-body as the 1973 was, and this generation, while large for a “midsize” car, was a solid offering by Chevrolet. Super Sport it was not, but you still had the robust frame, a choice of engines that spanned six and eight cylinders, and interior trim that wasn’t pure, unadulterated plasticky crap. Granted, in the case of this particular car, you had better like the color green, but it could’ve been worse…a quick glance at GM’s 1977 paint chip board will tell you just how bad. By comparison, dark green is a choice color.

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Dog dish caps, the look of a survivor car, and one of the cleanest engine bays ever seen in a 1977 automobile since 1977…we would be preparing a 400ci small-block Chevy to take the place of that 305, beautiful paint job and all, and you know the automatic would be getting some love as well, but we wouldn’t want to do much more. Who would suspect a thing? Nobody…not the brat in the Jetta who wants to race, not your kids as they ride in a car with the backseat room of an SUV, nobody.

eBay Link: 1977 Chevrolet Malibu Classic

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7 thoughts on “This 1977 Chevrolet Malibu Would Make A Killer Sleeper…It Already Has The Look!

  1. Ed

    It is refreshing to find like minded souls who understand the beauty of an ugly sleeper. Giddyup.

  2. jerry z

    Even though it’s a sweet looking car, ’73 is the only year that works for me. Now if it was a Grand Am, I’d be on it like gravy on potatoes.

  3. Mike B

    Very nice car. I’ve had many similar cars in the same or better condition(not just 70’s Chevelles mind you, but GM 4-doors from 60s and 70s),great daily drivers. Unfortunately they are asking double what the car will bring. I have never gotten more than 3500 for a mint 4- door, and I have sold many over the years. The best way to buy is less than 3 grand, and drive the piss out of it for a couple years, then you’ll get your moneys worth. I’ll still buy ’em though because they are the real cars us and our parents mostly drove, not SS big block cars.

  4. derbydad276

    $7000 … pass more like $3000 if it had a long roof yea it would sell higher

    face it … ( more doors) always have and always will be parts cars for coupes

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