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Seats and Restraint Systems
This section tells you how to use your seats and safety belts properly. It also explains the “SRS” system.
Features and Controls
This section explains how to start and operate your vehicle.
Comfort Controls and Audio Systems
This section tells you how to adjust the ventilation and comfort controls and how to operate your audio system.
Your Driving and the Road
Here you’ll find helpful information and tips about the road and how to drive under different conditions.
Problems on the Road
This section tells what to do if you have a problem while driving, such as a flat tire or overheated engine, etc.
Service and Appearance Care
Here the manual tells you how to keep your vehicle running properly and looking good.
Maintenance Schedule
This section tells you when to perform vehicle maintenance and what fluids and lubricants to use.
Customer Assistance Information
This section tells you how to contact Chevrolet for assistance and how to get service and owner publications.
It also gives you information on “Reporting Safety Defects” on page
8-10.
Index
Here’s an alphabetical listing of almost every subject in this manual. You can use it to quickly find
something you want to read.

GENERAL MOTORS, GM, the GM Emblem,
CHEVROLET, the CHEVROLET Emblem and the
name MALIBU are registered trademarksof
General Motors Corporation.
This manual includes the latest information at the time it
was printed.We reserve the right to make changes in the
product after thattime without further notice.For
vehicles first soldin Canada,substitute the name
“General Motorsof CanadaLimited”for Chevrolet
Motor Division whenever
it appears in this manual.
Please keep this manualin your vehicle,
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there if youever need it when you’re
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The dynamic William C. “Billy ”
Durant shiftedgears from making
carriages
to making cars,
forming
half the team thatgave
birth
to Chevrolet.
Louis Chevrolet, the other half of the team,
at the wheel of his experimental “Classic
Six, ” whichentered production in 1912.
That year 2999 vehicles were produced.
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In I932 Chevrolet
introduced the
Synchro-Mesh
transmission and
ofered a host
of
accessories -- including
such nicetiesas a
clock!
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The legacy of America'sfavorite sportscar
began in
1953, when 319 hand-assembled
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white Corvettes
launched the
first use
of a
Jiberglassbody
in
a production cal:

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I The 1957 Chevy started a romance with the American
public
-- and was poweredby an availablefiel-injected V8.
Your new Chevrolet continuesa tradition of quality and value.
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