69 Chevelle Malibu built in Fremont CA.  Originally came with a 350 cu in motor and a 350 automatic transmision.  It came with power brakes, power steering, tilt steering, AC, disc brakes up front, and a 12 bolt rear end.  It had green interior with a bench seat.  The paint was also green.

I got this car in 1990, it was my first car.  It has been painted 3 times since I had it, the interionr has been replaced with black and bench seats installed with a center console.  It stayed in California until 2005 when I moved it to Texas.  The car is finally getting a proper frame off restoration.

69 Chevelle Maibu as it was prior to the frame off.

The tear down started around Aug 07. First thing I did was to tear the car down to the frame. I sent the frame, rear end and all the suspension parts to the powder coaters. This guy did a great job, I can not see any of the old frame even deep inside the rails. I highly recomend him.
Heres the link to precisionpowder

Before

After (with suspension bolted on)      

I went from front disc to four wheel disc. Kept the old rear axels but plan to replace after about 1000 miles on the new motor. Figured I would make sure budget allowed complete reassembly first. Also kept the old gears. I added new shocks, seals, differential cover, brake lines, fuel lines, new springs, poly bushings, rear sway bar, boxed arms, emergency cables and new disc conversion.

For the front end I went with all poly bushings, stock control arms, a Moog front rebuild kit, new springs, shocks, and continued the disc conversion kit. Nothing fancy about the disc kit for the most part the parts are near factory specs, I did add 2" dropped spindles. The brake kit came from CPP. Decided to reuse my power steering box, I never noticed anything wrong with it. Again I have to budget for a complete rebuild and then I might circle back with one of the quick ratio boxes. All other stearing componants like the center link are new.

Dec 2007 got my new 383 stroker from Heres the link to Strokermotor  Talk to Rob. Super nice guy very helpful and delivered as promissed (so far). Yet to start the motor. For a transmission I went through OPGI to get a 200R4 which was built by Art Carr who owns California performance transmissions.
Heres the link to CPT
Art is also a great stand up guy. He went the extra mile to make sure my tranny had the correct speedo gear for the gears and tires I was running. I got the 400+ hp rated 200R4.

Well thats the last 3 months or so, I think its moving alog nice considering I can only work on it weekends and have three little ones at home.  In the mean time I am working on cleaning up some brakets and such. I had a work bench I temp converted to a sand blasting cabinet. Check it out. I made it for $50 in parts and large enough to handle the drive shaft, radiator support ect... Has a light and all.

Some of the recent progress. I added alot of the details to the motor including the A/C. Think I just need some sending units and the engine will be complete. Today I added the radiator support, radiator, condenser, tranny cooler, and welded up some of the exhaust. Also got the tranning pluming mostly completed.

Picture of the exhaust. Its a 2 1/2 inch exhaust from flowmaster. I added the cutouts for fun. Kit came with the h pipe. All in all it went together pretty smooth. I did the welding with my mig welder and covered the welds up with some spray paint so you can't see my bird droppings. (No it came out ok I am happy with it)

 Been awhile so here are some more progress pictures.  I got the frame wrapped in plastic to protect it from over spray and I set the body back on.  Body has been stripped metal prep'ed and epoxy sealed.  Did a little body work body have alot to go.  Thats it for now.

Here she is all epoxy primed in DP90.  I already got the high build primer on her to just no pictures yet.

Back from the painters.