I spent some time decoding all the #s for the car, and this is what I came up with.

	A possum was living in the left front fender and it took a couple of days of trying different things to get him to vacate his Chevelle Hotel.  There was enough leaves packed in the fender to completely fill a big shop vac.
	Close up of the Chevelle's main tenant.  When I was loading up the car on the trailer, a mouse ran out of the tailpipe when I looked in it.  Scared the hell out of me!
	12/13/03.  I installed a new ball joint on the right side, and now the car is sitting on all 4 wheels.  I still need new a-arms, but this will at least allow me to move it around.
	I decided to see if I could get the engine running, since a few days ago I successfully turned the engine over by hand.  After a little over $700 in parts, including a new Edelbrock intake manifold and carb, alternator and misc parts, I was ready to have at it.  The previous owner sold the original manifold and carb after he wrecked the car, and laid a newer manifold on top to partially seal the engine off.  Over that he laid a blanket.  When I pulled the manifold off I found this mouse nest.  Eeeeewwww!!!   Now I know the 350 is supposed to be a mouse motor, but this is ridiculous.  Looks like a tear-down is in order.
	12/19  The engine is out.  The first thing I noticed was that the driver's side motor mount was broken.
	Engine on the stand, waiting for disassembly.
	Here's a detailing project that will take me a few hours.  :>(  The broken motor mount is sitting on the radiator support.
	12/25.  I started tearing apart the front of the car.  Here's the LF fender after I removed it.  Looks like all I got for Christmas was more rust...  Notice the square section.  I found some of that aluminum sticky tape underneath some putty.  Someone did a pretty poor job a while back.  Time for a new fender.
	12/27.  The nose is all off now.  All the hardware is being put into baggies and marked so they end up where they started.  A bunch more leaves fell out when I pulled the fender.  It was really packed in there.
	12/28/03  The whole front end has been removed, which makes it easy to get in there to clean and restore.  Looking at this, I sometimes wonder what I got myself into.  :>/
	1/10/04,   I bought some used A-arms to replace the damaged ones.  They were a bit rusty, so it gave me a chance to try out my new sandblaster.  The upper arm came out pretty good.
	I was all the way done sandblasting the lower arm when a friend who stopped by pointed out that my shock mount hole was broken out.  Looks like this will be the first place I get to try out my new MIG welder.

2/17/04.  I decided that since most people don't get out what they put in the car, not counting the endless hours either, I decided to look for a different car that was already done, and just finance the difference.  The 2 years I would spend restoring this one could easily be spent flipping burgers at a 2nd job, and I'd have enough money to make the payments on the car.  OK, so I'm not going to get a 2nd job at BK, but you get the idea.  I sold this Malibu to a guy in Battle Creek  who is going to restore it with his 14-year-old daughter who's paying for all of it with babysitting money.  Now THAT'S some initiative.