From the photos provided, it’s hard to tell this was once a 1965 Chevrolet Chevelle. The pic of the front clip is what gives it away. It appears to have been a Malibu Sport Coupe with a six-cylinder engine, but it’s mostly in parts and pieces now, waiting for someone to decide its fate. From a dark garage in Lynchburg, Virginia, the Chevy has a long way to go to being anything other than a donor for another project. It’s available here on Facebook Marketplace for $2,000, but after 10 weeks since being listed, not much action may have been taken.

In 1962, Ford created a “mid-size” product to compete between the full-size Galaxie and the compact Falcon, and they shifted the Fairlane name to it. Most of General Motors followed suit in 1964, including the Chevy Chevelle whose top-of-the-line model was the Malibu. The Sport Coupe was quite popular, though most were sold with V8 engines. The seller’s car may have been one of about 25,000 copies to have an inline-6 for power, 230 cubic inches (the seller’s assumption is a 250 CI).

There’s no way to tell if this Chevy is complete because parts of it are here, there, and everywhere. And you could easily find some duplicates. The status of the engine and automatic transmission are unknown, and the rear end is “mostly rusted out.” The car left the factory with burgundy paint, but the original owner sanded it down and then did nothing else to it (perhaps long ago).

The seller does have a title for this project, but it begs the question, “What would you do with it?” Have a parts sale or use some of it to restore another 1964-65 Chevelle (they were mostly the same except for the grill and taillights)? Thanks go to Chuck Foster for this tip.