I’d buy one if the condition was right. Things like that are so much easier today.

The Granada would have been a much worse drive, but it would have felt more special. Fresh air for rear passengers came through those little windows (dont know what they´re called). Riding in this car was outright punishment akin to being placed in the back of a police cruiser as you were taken to the county jail for booking. Power’s industry-leading valuations data drives NADAguides.com? Last but not least, it had that characteristic V8 growl when the engine was idling.Though, I must admit that every anti-smog paraphernalia had been removed by the previous owner.Brakes and handling were good too and the TH-200 was as smooth as silk.I sold it because the body was in really bad shape. It had great vibes.

It also pulled this car up to speed pretty well for the time.

This it did successfully for several years, after which it was unceremoniously discontinued. Never had any trouble with those.I remember this generation Chevy Malibu. Since I bought my car on 31 Dec, does that mean it was “driven for the new year”?I suspect the ’80 Caprice demos (“5 at this price!”) may have been used to ferry around midlevel hangers-on.The station wagon version was hugely popular as a “Mommy Mobile”.

It was a NC car and we payed a pretty penny for it at the auction. It had its maladies but it was an old car. I had no idea they all came that way. I distinctly remember the noise they made in my mother’s 1982.She traded in a ’75 Charger SE to buy that Malibu new, and it served our growing family for 12 years before that 229 finally gave up.

1981-84 versions made 110 which was still 20 more than the Ford also dealing with less weight. They had a lot to recommend them too: cheap to buy and operate, functional, relatively durable and reliable for the times, etc.

)Cars of the early 1980s may not have had the build quality or performance capabilities of modern cars, but there is an area where they excelled – color options. This 1981 Chevrolet Malibu Wagon Restomod is a sleek machine that has been given a full custom build to be a unique panel delivery. So many choices back then; the early cars even had the option of a light blue interior! Modern, mobile computing technology has gotten to my head!I don’t know — I’d consider power windows to be electric, rather than electronic… regardless, your point about being easily entertained is so true. I thought it was a cool car. Power. Rochester 2GC IIRC.I’m not sure what exactly the “sealed carb” is either. Although I have a weird love for the Chryslers (still can’t explain to myself why), the 77-83 Malibu’s had that flowing sheerness, nimble peppiness, and overall isolation characteristics of the BOF the 318 monocoque/torsion-bar Caravelle/Diplomat/Volares of my world couldn’t offer. We got Malibu Classic after the change to the formal roof.The hubcaps are the same I saw. I’d love to be able to get those on a new car.The rear vent windows on the A bodies only popped out 10-15 degrees, just to give air a way to escape the rear of the passenger compartment. I also like the grille of the 81 Malibu. All of this illustrates Geeber’s point that the GM, Ford and Chysler lineups didn’t match up as closely in this era as they had in the past, due to the different schedule each downsized on, and the different ways they handled downsizing (e.g., did they introduce a new midsize, or did they take a design originally intended to be a compact and call it a midsize? I believe it had a 305. RockAuto ships auto parts and body parts from over 300 manufacturers to customers' doors worldwide, all at warehouse prices. But a year or two later, they came back.My folks traded a ’72 LTD for our Malibu. FWIW, the famous, troubled television news anchor Jessica Savitch drowned in the Oldsmobile Cutlass version of the Malibu wagon when it flipped over in four feet of muddy water.As to the necessity of roll-down rear windows, while research might show that they’re not used all that much, they’re one of those things that when they ‘are’ wanted, people really want them. But I’d just take a LeMans over either.I prefer the roofline of the 1978-80 Malibu’s over the 1981-83 Malibu’s, I rank the 1978-80 Chevy Malibu’s to be my one of my favorite vehicles built during the 1978-83 period, I only wish Olds and Buick would have made their 4 door’s the same style as Chevy and Pontiac did with their immediates during the 1978-79 run.Same here. I knew a former cop who was working when these cars came out as police cars. Rated 4 out of 5 stars. Maybe it was the tallish 2:1 axle ratios of the Mopars that ultimately did them in, I don’t know. Instead of a revolutionary car, it was a transitional one – a halfway point between the excessively large and ponderous sedans of the 1970s to the smaller and front-drive cars that emerged in the 1980s. On the Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac G body sedans there was a power rear vent window option but I am not sure about if it was offered by in the BuThe Malibu definitely had the power rear vents as an option. I thought it was chunky and big on outside but smallish inside. During the 1970s, the only cars from the 1950s that people really collected were the 1955-57 Thunderbirds, 1955-57 Chevrolets, early Corvettes, the 1953-54 Studebaker coupes and the Edsel.It was basically a reaction to cars like this Malibu.Now the Malibu coupe is considered a collectible with an increasing number of reproduction parts available. After two years of side-by-side sales, it was clear that the Celebrity won the battle, and the Malibu was taken out of production after 1983.One curiosity about Chevy’s showroom dynamics from our featured year of 1981 is that Malibus were generally selling at about the same price (or less) than the smaller Citation.

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