I found this 66 malibu in a barn in my local neighborhood. All origninal numbers match 283 with powerglide. Last registered 1985. Owner purchased it in 1972 from orignal owner. Motor is missing carb but everything else is there in orignal form. Original paint. Frame is great. Floors gone, trunk gone. Basically everything lower needs work. Rear quarters, lower doors, inner wheel wells, front fendrs. Upper is in pretty good shape, around window glass etc. Had trouble with getting good pictures because it is shoehorned in the barn with no room to spare. What's it worth????
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I can't tell you how much it's worth but it looks like a nice project. I really like that Cuda,sharp car. Is that hard to get parts for or are most things fairly common?

Thanks...I found anything Mopar is harder to get and you pay WAY MORE for. That was one of the disappointments I had with that project. The older A body cuda's like this are harder to find parts for than the 3rd gen cudas because they are not as desireable and the repo market isn't there.

I'd start at a grand and go to 3 grand or so. Hard to tell without seeing it and also how much the current owner is in love with it.

JMHO, no more than $1000.

That car is crying out 'save me!' It is eay to get emotional about it, but realistically the amount you'd have to put into has to be considered. Are you able to do all the welding yourself? Are you paying somebody to do all the dirty work? That could get pricey, and a Malibu has a glass ceiling for value. Still I hate to see them get junked, but be prepared to lose financially. Given the extent of the rust I would have to agree with LeoP on the $1000 figure. Don't flinch, and don't ridicule the car, just be honest with them. People tend to get defensive or dismissive if you come on too strong, and often they don't truly appreciate the extent of what a proper rust repair entails. Hopefully you get the car for the right price, you take it on as a project, you don't get discouraged, and it turns out well. Hopefully after that it puts a smile on a lot of people's faces! You'll forget at that point that it was over budget and behind schedule though.

Don't see too many white ones :)

One thing that looks good about this 66 is it appears that the trim is all there and not banged up, bumper is straight if the front /grille as good as the rear then thats a plus even dash looks complete and decent having just completed a 66 if the trim is straight I would never buy NOS or repo I would get the original stuff polished and in case of alum polished and reanodized .... sounds expensive but when your reinstalling this stuff the original parts fit so much better , some of my NOs stuff is not as nice as the reanodized original trim and the repo stuff never fits as good ......I have repo trim that I installed and took off and sent my old stuff in for redo worth every penny it cost ....... learned this lesson alittle too late in project

Hard to put a real value to it without really crawling under and over it, but the good thing is that is looks pretty complete. The thing that can get costly on project cars is when parts are missing, or worse not sure what is missing.

I recently sold a 67 Malibu that was in worse condition than this 66 appears to be in for $1200.

If you could get it for $1000, that would be a good deal if it is complete.

The 67 that I sold had a non running 283 with PG trans that had a cracked case, the body pretty much needed all new sheetmetal (fenders, hood, 1/4's, trunk lid) including floor & trunk pans plus all the braces, a drivetrain, new brakes, the frame needed to be replaced. The car's interior also in need of a complete resto. Basically all that was good on the car was the glass and some chrome, and a registration.

In retrospect I probably could have gotten more for it on ebay.

Wayne

$750.00 is the way I'd go.. you can always go up to $10000 ;)

base malibu, needs work big time.... nothing special about it if you are being honest with yourself.

That thing needs to be pulled out of that spot and really be looked at in the daylight to get an idea on what its worth. Cant tell with pictures from the back.

Its still just so cool to see stuff like that these days.

Give $1000 for it, but have $20000 in thw bank to make it a show winner

Well the good news is even though its not a SS it is the right years 66 and 67,
chevelles of those years are worth more than the later years.Theres something about the body style I guess.I was quite satisfied when I saw the new updates to the pricing on the 67 Chevelles on NADA guides thats for sure. Gained
$ 2,500 in a little over a month!! I guess we have the TV shows to thank in part. Anyway try around $ 1,000 that would be great deal if you watch shows like Wrecks to riches. He would take that car turn it into a SS and put it in auction for an insane amount.Great body style and no tacky interior. Pick that up before the next values on the 66 and 67 chevelles are updated.

I found mine in a barn in 2001, it was an SS 4-speed car with the engine .console and backseat missing and I paid $1200. for it. It had sat there 15 years and had only one bad spot in the trunk but I did have to patch both lower quarters and front fenders and the windshield and back window had to have repair panels. I did most of the work myself except body work and paint and I have 19k in it now including the purchase price.

It is worth what you are willing to pay. How bad do you want the car...that is what it is worth to you. What someone else will pay is irrelevant. It looks pretty good to me. The engine trans are nothing but the shell ...that is another story.

Paraphrasing Dirty Harry "The question ya have to ask yourself is: What am I willing to pay for this car.

Maybe it would help to know what the owner is asking - or did they put the pricing decision up to you?

That looks to be a nice project car. But please do not kid yourself about how much work and money will be involved to see it through to completion. Then consider what other '66 or '67 that you could buy. Usually a car like this sucks up way more money and time than anticipated. With the floors/trunk gone you can be assured that there are other (covered out of view) rust issues. Are you prepared to separate the body and frame and send the body off to be properly stripped - and then replace all the known bad panels?

I can't give you a good idea of that car's value - there is too much needed work for me to consider.

Thomas

I'd pay up to $1,500 for something like that. Not a "special" Chevelle, needs a lot of love, but invest some cash into it and it'd be a beauty.

i'd go $2000 for it ,that car needs to be saved.

Thanks for the input guys. I feel like you derserve the rest of the story so here it is. I bought the car. I called the guy the first day it was in the paper and left a message. I could tell that his answering maching was full of messages by the length of time I had to wait to leave mine. He called me back and said I can come look at it. He said he was telling everybody between noon and 2 the next day. He said he had a ton of calls. I show up at 11:30 the next day,this is only 5 min from my house. I had only looked the car over for about 5 minutes and the next guy shows up. He said he had 3 others comming to look at it. I knew things where going to happen fast so I whip out the cash and gave him his asking price. I paid $1200. I thought the car was worth $2500. Based on what some of you have told me I may be high. I know what it would take to restore it, I've done one and am in the middle of another. I am going to sell it. Either way, I won't make enough or lose enough to justify my time, but hey, this is a hobby, right? :) There is just something cool about dragging a car out of a barn and saving it. Judging by the 750 views on my post in just over a day, I think most of you would agree. I'll get it home this week and find out what I really have. Thanks again guys.

Let me get this straight: you bought the car for resale and you were asking us for the car's value? Sorta like the pre-ad ad.

Thomas

Let me get this straight: you bought the car for resale and you were asking us for the car's value? Sorta like the pre-ad ad.

Thomas

I was wondering the same thing too.:sad:

I am going to sell it. Either way, I won't make enough or lose enough to justify my time, but hey, this is a hobby, right? :) There is just something cool about dragging a car out of a barn and saving it.

...Or selling it I guess.

Anyway try around $ 1,000 that would be great deal if you watch shows like Wrecks to riches. He would take that car turn it into a SS and put it in auction for an insane amount.

The only entity that turned cars into SS's was General Motors. Just like Barry can't wave his magic wand and turn a Le Mans into a GTO, nor can he wave his magic wand and turn a Satellite/Road Runner combo into a GTX.

This DOES seem like a cloaked classified ad, as Bomber 67 pointed out. Really too bad someone that wanted to rescue a car from a barn didn't rescue it instead of someone looking to turn a quick buck. But the car may get the last laugh...If you paid $1200 for it, I'd say that is what most people will pay for a car that needs every single body panel plus an engine and tranny.

This DOES seem like a cloaked classified ad, as Bomber 67 pointed out. Really too bad someone that wanted to rescue a car from a barn didn't rescue it instead of someone looking to turn a quick buck. But the car may get the last laugh...If you paid $1200 for it, I'd say that is what most people will pay for a car that needs every single body panel plus an engine and tranny.

Sorry guys. I am sincere when I say, I really had no intention of disguising this as an ad, that wasn't my intention. We see these what's it worth post all the time and I was excited and curious to get other's opinions. In looking back on it, I can see that it might have appeared as though this was an ad. Although I don't think I would have told you what I paid for it if it was really an ad. My apologies.
Now as far as the making a quick buck comment. Since when is that not OK in America? I didn't steal candy from a baby. I went in and gave the guy his asking price. I don't see how anybody can begrudge someone for that. At the time I thought it was undervalued. I may be right, I may be wrong. Either way, we're talking about chump change and I don't think I'll quit my day job over it.

Hey, its all good, and I wish you the best. Please post some more pics of this car, I always enjoy seeing what a barn find car is like.

Maybe branching out into the buying and selling of cars is new for you, but keep in mind that all the replies with wildly differing values do not translate into buyers. For very understandable reasons when a person is serious about buying a car all sorts of factors come into play for the final offer - but from the armchair perspective of Team Chevelle this is just grand fun.

What I find interesting is the number of people who ask me how much I've paid for a car. Some of them make comments that indicate they understand the money that it takes, others make comments that can only be described as pointed and hurtful.

You pay your money and take your chances - the car was worth exactly what the seller and buyer agree upon.

Thomas

i paid 300.00 for my 69 it needed trunk,lower front fender,rite r 1/4 no motor or trans.i guess i got lucky.