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69 Malibu Pro Touring build

Fall of 1998, Dad had waited a few months after I bought the Chevelle to transfer the title so he would get 30 days of free insurance at the same time I got my driver's license. I had a farm-permit, which turned into a full license on my birthday, so at 11:59pm I headed out, knowing I would have a license by the time I would get to the highway, taking the Chevelle for a short drive.

The next day, I found some blue enamel that matched, brush-painted over all the rust, and sprayed black over all the lower body argent silver which hid the rust well. I had bought some 15x7 ralleys, and got the used tires off my parents' Caprice. The car looked great from 50' away. Unfortunately, I never took any pictures of the car at that stage... It only lasted 30 days on the road like that.

That winter we started the body work at Dad's body shop. This was planned to be a quick job over one winter, but the project stalled out for a little while after the metal work stage was done.

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Like most of our car projects, what was planned to be 6 months for paint stalled out for a while and turned into 2-1/2 years. We took the car apart when I was 16, but I really wanted to have it done before I graduated high school.
Spring of 2001 we got serious about getting paint on it and freeing up the space it had been occupying in Dad's body shop. Huge thanks to Dad, the paint turned out awesome, and still looks great 20+ years later.

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Who's the skinny punk kid ?!

My first 70 was white with blue stripes. Back in 88/89, I had always wanted to revers it like your colors. I learned so much working at my dads garage. Your pictures bring back lots of good memories.
 
Very nice! Did the same skunk stripes on my first '69 malibu back in '97. Similar layout and border stripe.....so many different variations of custom stripes on a '69 since they were all custom.
 
That car's something to be very proud of!!! Means so much more than just buying one already done.
 
After paint, I assembled the Chevelle in May of 2001. The picture on the trailer was when we hauled it to a shop for exhaust and alignment. I was finally able to drive it to school the last 3 days of my Senior year.
With the completely stock drivetrain it was a very nice comfortable driving car. I drove it daily like that during the summer for two years, putting 9,000 miles on it in 2001, and 8,000 in 2002.

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Drivers side is cable, but I just zip-tied the cable inside the door and adjust it manually. Passenger side is manual.
At that time, those cars were everywhere, and non-power mirrors were kind of hard to find in junkyards. I imagine it might be rather difficult to find them today since most of those cars have been scrapped by now. Angle was perfect for 68-69 Chevelle door, and only required drilling holes to mount them.
 
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