it's time for show-off Sunday, where everyone has a chance to show off their
own car, and here's this week's winner,
my name is Zack and this is my 1979 Malibu, it's my first car, me and my dad worked on it throughout the whole winter and it did not look like this when we first got it
I'm 14 years old and I'm never ever gonna sell it, today we're gonna
learn about a father-and-son project that started out with just a plain Jane
1979 Malibu sedan that morphed into what it is today, and we're gonna tell you a
little about this story and the journey and how we got here, what you see
now is just a plain Jane 79 Malibu, it's what we started out with, and junior here
my son was always a gearhead, he had everything he could as a father could
give him and build him, from ernhardt cars to a chopper we built together and he
even got to hang around some celebrities as he grew up luckily enough but before
that began before the build, I had four brain surgeries to the world's most
painful disease, called trigeminal neuralgia, otherwise known as
suicide headaches, right after I had my fourth brain surgery we started with
this car, as you can see we started on a low budget build with having to
polish our own wheels, buying secondhand rims and tires
my son scraping the trunk out, restoring it, I taught my boy at age 14 how
to build a car, and how to restore one, how to maintain one, and before I taught
him how to make it look pretty and go fast, I taught him how to do everything
safety related first, before he can go fast you must be able to stop, steer and
start, as you can see throughout this, we fixed the car up quite a bit and it was
a great learning process for my son at the time, every day after school and on
weekend we thrashed on it, that's before my
health got a lot worse, so it was great then it was a great learning experience
I don't think I could have asked for a better time bonding with my son after
brain surgery and now that my health is deteriorated that was the only chance
that I had of putting this car together with him, and you see we've replaced everything
from dash, put a console, tilt wheel gauges, and even Jay Leno signed the car with some
other celebrities that are on the glove box there, and that was the second time
we've met Jay and my son was also very fortunate to tour his garage, so now
we've rebuilt the carb, recurved the distributor, fresh plugs, wires, cap, rotor,
headers, dual exhaust, put a 350 turbo trainee with a 2400 stall 373 posi rear
end, we named the car the more door SS and you can see my wife and I are enjoying
it out on the beach and taking it around to car shows, I've been very fortunate and
blessed to have that time with my son and I look at those memories with great
fondness and admiration, and now my son can go through life with a bit of
knowledge, some tools and know-how on how to maintain, fix, and repair his vehicle