Comments: 1-15, 16-19
The only thing wrong with this car is a slight rip on the vinyl on the inside driver door.
It had the original rubber and rims so obviously replaced.
Tiny patches of rust on the body closest to the tires, hardly visable.
I dualed off the exhaust to make it louder and more "muscular"
I am 16 and and was looking for a nice muscle car for my first.
This car I found on an old lady who had hardly ever driven this Aspen which she bought new in 1976.
It had 25,000 original miles (wow) and is as mint as possible on the inside.
It is dark red in color with a white vinyl top and a vinyl stripe.
It has abit of rust on the body which is a given, but the paint is the original believe it or not.
The car was completely original when i bought it and has no accidents or any body work.
I am not positive if this was a sporty car or even a nice one back in the 70's, but everyone is amazed at how mint original and classy this car is today.
If you're looking for a muscle car you'd better keep looking. A Dodge Aspen isn't a muscle car.
Don't listen to that guy (probably a Chevy guy). I have a '77 Aspen R/T Super Pak (360/4 speed) and it's a nasty late 70's muscle car. Good luck.
Don't listen to this comment -- the Dodge Aspen was under-rated due to some quality control issues that were quickly fixed and had to do with rusting fenders mostly. This car is bulletproof, reliable, fast and an attractive car when in its 2-door coupe form.
The Dodge Aspen was not attractive in its 4-door form, but neither was the Dart, the Valiant, or pretty much all of the muscle cars from the 60's and 70's. The 2-door Aspens suffered from having too much chrome and tacky striping put on them -- a problem with most cars from that era. But when you look at the body style of the 2-door coupes, they were probably more attractive than the body styles of the Darts and Dusters.
You "found the car on an old lady"?
What happened, was she under it when it slipped off the jack?
You forgot to say it is "Awesome".
They did not fix the fender rust problems on the Volare/Aspen until the 1978 model year. A 76-77 model is a good one to stay away from, not many left anyway.
There are no late '70's muscle cars. Your nasty Aspen with a 360 would have a hard time keeping up with a decently running late model Civic Si.
To the guy who wrote the comment on April 20th.
You dare call some one stupid and you can't ever write "he's" correctly?
Well what did we expect? You own a Dodge Aspen, and think that it's a "muscle car" (or is that "mussel car")?
The car hadn't been driven much by the old lady because apparently she was stuck under it since 1977.
That's what happens when you try to change your own oil using only a tire jack to hold up the vehicle!
I`m from Norway, and I have a 79 aspen with a 360 engine.
I drive about 30 mails pr day, 5 days a week, in winter and summer, in many years now.
Its the best car I ever had, and I hope and think it vil last forever.
I love my aspen very much.
I have a '78 Aspen SE that I converted to a '77 RT. It will out run any chevy, civic, or anything else with less than 400 hp and 403 lbs/ft of torque. The 318 (400 hp, 403 lbs/ft of torque) I reworked is bullet proof, and so is the rest of the car. It is the best car I have ever owned and by far better then any chevy of the time.
MOPAR RULES!
The monkey comment was uncalled for, but the 400-horsepower 318 is an awfully big claim. A 318 is a great, durable engine with some respectable potential, but if you're getting more than 300 hp from it, then you put some extreme work and expensive machining and technology into it. This is way beyond the level of the usual modifications, like the cam/intake/4-barrel/headers/ignition. This would make a person wonder why you didn't just start with a 360 and make it that much bigger. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Maybe it could be done, but I guess we'd like the details of how you got 400 horses from a 318. Does this thing have nitrous? Does it have a blower? Did you put a stroker crank in it and bore it .060 over so it's a 385 cubic inch or something?
Yha that’s right 400 hp and 403 lbs/ft of torque. Here is some proof.
http://www.hotrod.com/howto/113_0304_junk/index2.html
The HotRod one is almost exactly what I did.
http://www.carcraft.com/howto/116_0401_318/index.html
I did have mine dynoed. Also I didn't have a 360 so I used the 318 I had.
Cool. If you've got the dyno slips, then that says it all. I read that article and was pretty impressed. Like I said, a lot of machining, but not as bad as I thought it would be. Agreed, Mopar rules!
While I don't exactly agree with the comment that a mopar F-body isn't a muscle car, I can't exactly agree with the statement that it is one, either. I've owned one of every type of Aspen/Volare all the way from the Petty cars to a "lowly" slant six wagon. I'd say both statements are true depending on which model or options you have, folks. The guy who owned a wagon will say it's an all around grocery getter while the guy who's owned an R/T or roadrunner, etc will say they're pretty darn quick in stock clothing. Another who's owned the premier edition will then again stand there and say it's a "luxury" car on the cheap. Again, they are ALL true. Will they compete with the modern day handling of a V-Tec coupe? Of course not. Then again, neither will a Plymouth Superbird or the like. Cars new and old have thier ups and downs. I really hate this Tuner/muscle car debate because the two aren't even the same. It's a fact that an Aspen R/T (or Plymouth Roadrunner Volare) will not only keep up with a Trans Am of the same year, but eventually spank it at the top end (stock vs. stock) so why wouldn't you call it a muscle car. You'd do it for the Smokey and the Bandit time machine there, right? It's older AMERICAN iron and the kid is just starting out. I say kudos for him on all levels and congratulate him for not playing into the Vato-Zone ricer mentality. It's a good start. Judgement stands as muscle car for the era in my book. You'd be hard pressed to argue against me on that point. After all, what else was there hummmmm? 'nuff said. You enjoy that ride, buddy. I congratulate you on your choice to keep the muscle car dream alive.