Mike Must is one of the most under-rated car guys on the internet. Hope he gets more episodes of his show in this year and in the future. He's just really cool to listen to, it's like I grew up with him when he talks about AFX slot cars. Keep up the good work Mike.
I love these oddball mopars from late 70s and early 80s. Had few Miradas and currently one stw Aspen. Someday I will get my super coupe or R/T Aspen Coupe.
Never saw 1 that color before. I saw 1 in brown and black and also a 2 toned Petty Blue before, but not that combo. Also, according to MSP tests in '78, a full police spec Aspen sedan with light bar, etc, did 0-60 in 8.8 sec, and the 79 version with 20 more hp, did it in 8.2, so a coupe with less weight at 7.3 seconds, sounds about right. '78 E58 360s in cars with cats were rated at 175hp for federal emissions, 170 for California, and 185 for Canada. The 220hp rated versions were for trucks only, in that yr only. '79 E58s were rated at 195hp in all states. Cali cars added an AIR pump. I had talked to a guy that worked at a Chrysler engine plant during the late 70's and early 80's. He said that 1 thing Chrysler was doing was measuring and testing the engines as installed in their cars, and using chassis dynos for fine tuning rather than an engine stand dyno, which made them run better and stronger than the competition. Even so, the ELB system was a constant problem. The technology just wasn't there until about '81. He said that a tech could tune the system and it would run great, but the next start up the car could run terrible, w/o even touching 1 adjustment. Ironically, the 1st upgrade in the Direct Connection parts catalog of the time was to ditch the ELB, and add an Orange Box electronic ignition system with a fast curve distributor.
In a world of people that think all cars should make 4 numbers on the dyno, it's really cool to see pieces like this still exist. Don't get me wrong, I dig a well built restomod, but I have truly had more fun in a bone stock fox body with a gear, and a good clutch, than I have any 4 digit racecar. Keep up the cool work Mike! We all dig it!
I remember the decals were shipped in the trunk and we would apply them. The rest of the car was as you see it. Had the wider wheels which surprisingly weren't mentioned. Great job commentating, and so true about the WS6 T/A vs mopar P/S. How about the overly assisted power brakes? i love those.
This was featured in Car and Driver Magazine. I was in vocational school at the time. My teacher was a MOPAR guy. Showed him the article and we drooled together
If you ordered the solid isolators and police suspension- it'll handle & brake much better. Since '73-up steering knuckles were standardized, so caliper adapters and a set of "Big" car rotors, that thing can sport 12" rotors using factory parts on the cheap.
Well presented; seeing that nobody instantly start bashing on it in the comments. I love me some cool looking oddball Mopars, even more so knowing these where the last Iterations of the A-body's. Amazing really how long and divers/widespread they where able to use that platform in their line-up. Thank you for still providing a world wide audience with this quality content.
I was a Police Officer back then and we ran Aspens and Volares 360's. Not bad in a straight line, but did not handle in corners. Back end wanted to pass the front end. We never did have any impressive cruisers until we got the Satellite 440's.
Had a 360 Aspen in the early 80s. Had a fatly padded half vinyl roof. Some kind of luxury edition. Good running car. Can't figure out why Aspen, Volare, and LeBaron from those years were not engineered for big block options.
That car brings back memories. My first car was a 1978 Volare Wagon with the "Super Six", near identical red interior, column shifter and optional "vent package" (which added the A/C vents and a vent position on the heater but didn't have A/C). Later I bought a 1977 Aspen Wagon as a parts car and then a 2-door 1979 Dodge Diplomat to replace the Volare (now with over 350,000 kms on it and a cracked frame under the passenger seat that failed due to too much flexing over the "pizza delivery" miles). I had the frame welded a couple of times but it kept cracking in different places. When it was cracked you could see the rear window flex left and right in the rear view mirror (the whole car would twist). The Diplomat was close to loaded (including A/C & power windows) but only had the super six too. After swapping the heavy duty rear axle from the Volare into the Diplomat (after its failed) I put over 500,000 km on the Diplomat (delivering pizza too). The Diplomat didn't experience the cracked frame problem. I really enjoyed those cars and drove them from about 1981 until the mid 1990's.
Awsome find Musto, never knew this car existed; dig the looks of the car too. Now you need to feature a King Cobra next. Or, if your really good find a Yenko Turbo Camaro, that'll blow everyone's mind.
Nice show, i just subscribed. I agree on the King Cobra, but also there are so many nice classics. I never seen someone doing a run down on AMC amx spirit. Keep up the good work Mike.
my dad bought a '80. my lead guitarist had the '78. We thought that we were cool. great memories, cheap beer, loud amplifiers, and slow cars, what else do you need, ? Fast Women!
Had a 77 Aspen in the mid 80’s. The slant 6 would stick to the bumper of my buddy’s 305 Camaro no problem. Love to have another someday, oh ya had a 70 comet, and 77 maverick back in the day as well.
Have followed and been a fan for a long while. Great videos Mike and you sure know how to bring back our youth with the cool cars you drive. Thanks again for not bailing out of you tube.
This is a great episode, a very cool ride ! ! ! ! ! ! Very original muscle car, and a very original episode, is not one of the too many classic muscle cars.
The slotted wheels are from the police package but look much wider though, perhaps they are modern. The magazine article shows non slotted wheels. Police package cars also had small dog dish hubcaps with many 1/2" holes to cool the bearings. Chrysler pretty much owned the police car market in the day. See also " The Blue Brothers" movie.
great car. Back in the day when these were new, I was a lot boy at a Chrysler/Plymouth dealer. I remember a Volare Road Runner...360 2 barrel and a manual with a lonnng stick, and lots of decals. It wasn't bad. Even as a dopey teenager, I knew that this was going to be a rarity, as new muscle had pretty much died off and whatever was left were strangled automatics. At the time, though, used 60's and early '70's muscle cars were plentiful and cheap...everyone at school had something...so the lack of new muscle wasn't a big concern.
I grew up in the era of silver Toyota sedans and minivans but there was one kid at my highschool who dailys a 79 Chevy Malibu wagon with a 454 from a truck it wasn't fast it's not pretty but damn is it badass his other car was a 91 Chevy S10 with a 4 banger and a stick that he painted up to be a shop truck for the local speed shop even though he didn't work there
I like those cars they still had the duster style to them I would own another one if I found one for a good price I wish I never sold my 79 Aspen R/T but a friend of mine that got it from me still has it
I know the R/Ts came with a more full width front "spoiler", and that's probably a lot easier to find, but the street kit has so much more awesome about it.
Had no idea. If I had seen it on the street I would've thought it was a one-off owner kit job. Felt the same way the first time I saw a Superbird on the street in 1970. Both look too outrageous to be factory. Great video.
Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth all produced some pretty funky stuff at times. Hell, I still can't believe the Prowler actually made it to production back in the late 90's.
that E 58 code 360 was Chrysler's go-to performance engine as it battled bankruptcy. Dropped into lightweight Dusters and Aspens/Volaries, it was the unknown factory performance car in those dark days. But the best 360cid were the early ones, with 340 sand cores so they could be max bored out past 4.04 inches and 340 ports in their heads. Unfortunately the Aspen/Volaries were lemons, unrustproofed front fenders, the torsion bars bending 90 degrees to fit in, etc. After this, Ma Mopar would need minivans to save it, and then Shelby's turbo 2.2 litres.
79 R/T ASPEN had the same drivetrain and T TOP.with out the fender extenders.it also had the wing minus extender and bucket seat interior and side window luvers.
No no no.. I already lost most of my favorite channels because motor trend on demand sucks and I had to cancel my subscription. When they went so far as to disable comments on all previos videos to silence the people.. they went to far and can suck a fat sack of large dicks. FUCK THE GREEDY ASSHOLES AT MOTORTREND!!!!!!!!
I was born in 79 the newest car that I own is a 78 I hate new cars but yes the cars built then were not Tire burners burners. but those kind of cars if you get rid of that lean Burn ignition System get rid of the thermoquad put a 650 Holley on it open the exhaust that car wood set you back in the seat. Then also the Fords and Dodges back then the timing was 4 degrees retarded so all you had to do is replace the timing chain and gear put a factory came back in it that was stock 0 and it would light them up! Great video!
Just discovered this channel please do a video on the valiant charger from here down under it was only a hemi slant 6 265 but was a real competitor back in its day
Owned the Plymouth Volare version '78 Richard Petty Town car.360 cu in added a racing automatic trans & dual 750 Holley carb.Girl from a neighboring state as I was driving thru stopped at a fast food joint wanted to go home with me....that's the attention that car got in 1986.BTW painted Petty blue & dark blue w/lighter blue vinyl seating.Still my fav all-time though thru time the stall button couldn't overcome the overheating.Traded in for a pos Dodge Charger in 1988?
I caught the Florida landscape, then the Florida license plate, when the car was on the lift, but, having gone to high school in Fort Lauderdale, and then finishing college in Gainesville in 1976, I sure would like to know what part of the state this was shot in!
I knew a guy that bought one of those brand new but it was Blue, it was a bone. So he put on one of the first nitrous oxide kits that were made and blew the 360 sky high.......that was in 1978.
I happen to like select examples of this era of car. Like a '75 Cordoba. I could have had a base Aspen with a 318 in the early 2000s for 1200 bucks. A grandma car with 18,400 miles. The dad wouldn't go for it, and ended up getting a shitbox Probe across the street that continually ate itself over the course of a year. Yes, the factory performance is crap, but hell, we're in the age of crate motors and laptop tunes. 500 horses and better suspension geometry, these things are the new hot rod. Except everyone hated them and there's so few survivors.
The 1978 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400/TA 400 (the ones with the 220 hp engines) were pretty fast cars for the time. Same with the Lil' Red Pickup by Dodge--I believe it was considered the fastest American vehicle at the time.
I seen one at the Dodge Dealer back in 1978 . It was a lot of money when your 20 years old back then . I thought it was kind of cheesy just like the 1978 T/A Pontiac . Went Smokey and the Bandit came out I thought the movie was cheesy also . I like the Aspen a lot . My dad bought one in 1976 . I was the base model I mean base model coupe with a 4 speed overdrive 225 slant six . It was black and tan interior that really made it much more rare of a car than the Street Kit Car Aspen . Here is the good news about the 70's and most 80's cars . They was still caburated and they have a distributor . You can play around with that . These cars now days you dont have these things to play with . Another thing with Dodge back then . That they caught fire in the carb a lot .
Johnny Lightning has matchbox versions under dodge aspen R/T. Headlights aren't fully correct but still cool and some have made Petty kit cars out of them. I have a 78 Volare Super Coupe with 360, and had 2 Dodge RTs. My son has a 76 Volare Road Runner and 80 FL Marine Patrol Aspen. My first volare had a super six that outran Trans Ams. Bty, wrong gas cap. That's fairly cheap as you can paint it. A guy on ebay wanted $400 for a supercoupe gas cap which is one of kind.
Were there two different front splitter options? I knew a guy with one of these back in the 80's and his front splitter moulded into the front fender flares.
Rare doesn't mean valuable! It's still just an aspen!!! I had an 78' dodge aspen RT 360-4bbl automatic! It had just 175hp with single exhaust and only 2:45•1 rear and it's only good for 0-60 in 9.1 seconds and quarter mile in 17.1@ 80mph.... you can call it anything you like, it is what it is! It was a nice car I bought new at 18 years old, but I got blown away by just about everything in that era of the later 70's...
Pretty neat. I always liked the Aspen/Volare body style but bummed that the first year of production was 1976, and here in California, that puts them into our bi-annual smog check prison. Dangit, missed it by one year!
+The House Of Muscle I apologize. Did not mean to offend you. I see the error of my way. You were trying to prove the owner correct by showing how it compared to other cars and I had to go and mention that it was nearly a full second slower than a pickup.
Thanks for staying on TH-cam Mike
We're working on it!
Your the man Mike!!! I've been hanging out for this new season. Thanks so much for keeping it real and keeping it free on YT
What he said...
Mike Must is one of the most under-rated car guys on the internet. Hope he gets more episodes of his show in this year and in the future. He's just really cool to listen to, it's like I grew up with him when he talks about AFX slot cars.
Keep up the good work Mike.
Cheers and thank you!
100%... Mike's the man
Austin Powers 100% agree
Do more oddballs like this. Even gear heads can learn a thing or two.
I love these oddball mopars from late 70s and early 80s. Had few Miradas and currently one stw Aspen. Someday I will get my super coupe or R/T Aspen Coupe.
Agreed - would totally love an 78 Magnum one day.
*MULLET-Mobile* Awesome! Right when we thought we knew it all on MOPAR, this shows up while Earl dies of envy...
"Ya bought a car, ya put louvers on it, ya grew yerself a mullet, and ya drank yerself a coors lite" ... amen brother. LOL
Never saw 1 that color before. I saw 1 in brown and black and also a 2 toned Petty Blue before, but not that combo. Also, according to MSP tests in '78, a full police spec Aspen sedan with light bar, etc, did 0-60 in 8.8 sec, and the 79 version with 20 more hp, did it in 8.2, so a coupe with less weight at 7.3 seconds, sounds about right. '78 E58 360s in cars with cats were rated at 175hp for federal emissions, 170 for California, and 185 for Canada. The 220hp rated versions were for trucks only, in that yr only. '79 E58s were rated at 195hp in all states. Cali cars added an AIR pump. I had talked to a guy that worked at a Chrysler engine plant during the late 70's and early 80's. He said that 1 thing Chrysler was doing was measuring and testing the engines as installed in their cars, and using chassis dynos for fine tuning rather than an engine stand dyno, which made them run better and stronger than the competition. Even so, the ELB system was a constant problem. The technology just wasn't there until about '81. He said that a tech could tune the system and it would run great, but the next start up the car could run terrible, w/o even touching 1 adjustment. Ironically, the 1st upgrade in the Direct Connection parts catalog of the time was to ditch the ELB, and add an Orange Box electronic ignition system with a fast curve distributor.
I think instead of being a street kit the brown and black was a super coupe or R/T it had at the least very similar flairs wings and louvers
Its cool hearing how people drove aspens back in high school,and im getting mine fixed up for my sophomore year
love this dodge. you had me at 43
I had the Plymouth version in 1978. two tone blue. loved it !
In a world of people that think all cars should make 4 numbers on the dyno, it's really cool to see pieces like this still exist. Don't get me wrong, I dig a well built restomod, but I have truly had more fun in a bone stock fox body with a gear, and a good clutch, than I have any 4 digit racecar. Keep up the cool work Mike! We all dig it!
Thanks Mike!
4 numbers?
This channel is gold! I need a HOM T-Shirt now.
I remember the decals were shipped in the trunk and we would apply them. The rest of the car was as you see it. Had the wider wheels which surprisingly weren't mentioned. Great job commentating, and so true about the WS6 T/A vs mopar P/S. How about the overly assisted power brakes? i love those.
This was featured in Car and Driver Magazine. I was in vocational school at the time. My teacher was a MOPAR guy. Showed him the article and we drooled together
Love it, pure 70’s cheesy cool. I dig Aspens, and I’ve never seen one of these before, thank you for showing us this gem Mike, nice beard too! 😁👍🏻
the r/t and road runner of the same era are cool as well.
There's a reason you don't see many Aspen/Volare examples around--they were garbage
Kinda weird how similar the Aspen and the 76 Nova are. Its like companies gave up on styling once the power was choked off too.
I never seen one of these either I mean I seen the Aspen but not this Edition.
If you ordered the solid isolators and police suspension- it'll handle & brake much better. Since '73-up steering knuckles were standardized, so caliper adapters and a set of "Big" car rotors, that thing can sport 12" rotors using factory parts on the cheap.
Well presented; seeing that nobody instantly start bashing on it in the comments. I love me some cool looking oddball Mopars, even more so knowing these where the last Iterations of the A-body's. Amazing really how long and divers/widespread they where able to use that platform in their line-up.
Thank you for still providing a world wide audience with this quality content.
I was a Police Officer back then and we ran Aspens and Volares 360's. Not bad in a straight line, but did not handle in corners. Back end wanted to pass the front end. We never did have any impressive cruisers until we got the Satellite 440's.
Had a 360 Aspen in the early 80s. Had a fatly padded half vinyl roof. Some kind of luxury edition. Good running car. Can't figure out why Aspen, Volare, and LeBaron from those years were not engineered for big block options.
That car brings back memories. My first car was a 1978 Volare Wagon with the "Super Six", near identical red interior, column shifter and optional "vent package" (which added the A/C vents and a vent position on the heater but didn't have A/C). Later I bought a 1977 Aspen Wagon as a parts car and then a 2-door 1979 Dodge Diplomat to replace the Volare (now with over 350,000 kms on it and a cracked frame under the passenger seat that failed due to too much flexing over the "pizza delivery" miles). I had the frame welded a couple of times but it kept cracking in different places. When it was cracked you could see the rear window flex left and right in the rear view mirror (the whole car would twist).
The Diplomat was close to loaded (including A/C & power windows) but only had the super six too. After swapping the heavy duty rear axle from the Volare into the Diplomat (after its failed) I put over 500,000 km on the Diplomat (delivering pizza too). The Diplomat didn't experience the cracked frame problem.
I really enjoyed those cars and drove them from about 1981 until the mid 1990's.
I absolutely love these and the Super Coupes.
I remember when Petty had long gone to Pontiac and some people were stuck with those big lumbering chrysler Imperials :(
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1. Very Cool, nice car
2. Excellent narration / very informative
3. STELLAR Camera work
4. I just subscribed
Just a great non offensive host / narrator that is a true car guy. Love it. Thank you!
Awsome find Musto, never knew this car existed; dig the looks of the car too. Now you need to feature a King Cobra next. Or, if your really good find a Yenko Turbo Camaro, that'll blow everyone's mind.
Now THAT's a unicorn.
Nice show, i just subscribed. I agree on the King Cobra, but also there are so many nice classics. I never seen someone doing a run down on AMC amx spirit. Keep up the good work Mike.
my dad bought a '80. my lead guitarist had the '78. We thought that we were cool. great memories, cheap beer, loud amplifiers, and slow cars, what else do you need, ? Fast Women!
Had a 77 Aspen in the mid 80’s. The slant 6 would stick to the bumper of my buddy’s 305 Camaro no problem. Love to have another someday, oh ya had a 70 comet, and 77 maverick back in the day as well.
Have followed and been a fan for a long while. Great videos Mike and you sure know how to bring back our youth with the cool cars you drive. Thanks again for not bailing out of you tube.
No problem!
I love this car, I had a 1978 Plymouth Volare, same color but a slant six 225.
I read about these cars in a Facebook group, which was of course only pictures. It's neat to see one on the road. Cool car indeed!
Love these oddities of Mopars.
brilliant episode as always guys
This is a great episode, a very cool ride ! ! ! ! ! ! Very original muscle car, and a very original episode, is not one of the too many classic muscle cars.
Awesome I love this show, so glad your still doing it
House of muscle is back!
Been here for awhile and glad you're back as well!
i missed the first minute /five rolling around, in great laughter! your killin me HERE!
Those wheels really set that car off.
Love they fact they never came with center caps.
The slotted wheels are from the police package but look much wider though, perhaps they are modern. The magazine article shows non slotted wheels. Police package cars also had small dog dish hubcaps with many 1/2" holes to cool the bearings. Chrysler pretty much owned the police car market in the day. See also " The Blue Brothers" movie.
great car. Back in the day when these were new, I was a lot boy at a Chrysler/Plymouth dealer. I remember a Volare Road Runner...360 2 barrel and a manual with a lonnng stick, and lots of decals. It wasn't bad. Even as a dopey teenager, I knew that this was going to be a rarity, as new muscle had pretty much died off and whatever was left were strangled automatics. At the time, though, used 60's and early '70's muscle cars were plentiful and cheap...everyone at school had something...so the lack of new muscle wasn't a big concern.
I grew up in the era of silver Toyota sedans and minivans but there was one kid at my highschool who dailys a 79 Chevy Malibu wagon with a 454 from a truck it wasn't fast it's not pretty but damn is it badass his other car was a 91 Chevy S10 with a 4 banger and a stick that he painted up to be a shop truck for the local speed shop even though he didn't work there
I like those cars they still had the duster style to them I would own another one if I found one for a good price I wish I never sold my 79 Aspen R/T but a friend of mine that got it from me still has it
I really want this kit for my wagon.
Oooooh. I like this idea!
I know the R/Ts came with a more full width front "spoiler", and that's probably a lot easier to find, but the street kit has so much more awesome about it.
That would be pretty bad ass.....
Great review. Thanks !! I currently own a 1980 Plymouth Volare Coupe with a modded 360. I get plenty of thumbs up too LOL !
Looks like you've grown a full beard and this is one cool rare street car.
I have one
@@kyletheis4259 Awesome brother.
I remember seeing these in the Direct Connection catalog.
I love the look of it!
Had no idea. If I had seen it on the street I would've thought it was a one-off owner kit job. Felt the same way the first time I saw a Superbird on the street in 1970. Both look too outrageous to be factory. Great video.
Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth all produced some pretty funky stuff at times. Hell, I still can't believe the Prowler actually made it to production back in the late 90's.
nice, an old man from my neighborhood gave me a volare plymouth because his sons didn't like it, can you believe it, I want to restore that beauty.
that E 58 code 360 was Chrysler's go-to performance engine as it battled bankruptcy. Dropped into lightweight Dusters and Aspens/Volaries, it was the unknown factory performance car in those dark days. But the best 360cid were the early ones, with 340 sand cores so they could be max bored out past 4.04 inches and 340 ports in their heads. Unfortunately the Aspen/Volaries were lemons, unrustproofed front fenders, the torsion bars bending 90 degrees to fit in, etc. After this, Ma Mopar would need minivans to save it, and then Shelby's turbo 2.2 litres.
Letterman’s hosting The House of Muscle? Yeah!
Cool. My first car was a 1980 Volare so I had a pretty good idea what this car was. Great episode thanks.
79 R/T ASPEN had the same drivetrain and T TOP.with out the fender extenders.it also had the wing minus extender and bucket seat interior and side window luvers.
Santa is driving a muscle car 😂
I really love your videos and, if I may say, your affection for mopars!
Love em' all - but yeah, got a soft spot for 'Ma.
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We like the way you think!
No no no..
I already lost most of my favorite channels because motor trend on demand sucks and I had to cancel my subscription. When they went so far as to disable comments on all previos videos to silence the people.. they went to far and can suck a fat sack of large dicks. FUCK THE GREEDY ASSHOLES AT MOTORTREND!!!!!!!!
bdd1469 they added all of Discovery Channels car shows on Motor Trend. Only thing I watch anymore.
I grew up around a blue one. It's still here. Why is HOM not have any new episodes on Mo-trend?
I was born in 79 the newest car that I own is a 78 I hate new cars but yes the cars built then were not Tire burners burners. but those kind of cars if you get rid of that lean Burn ignition System get rid of the thermoquad put a 650 Holley on it open the exhaust that car wood set you back in the seat. Then also the Fords and Dodges back then the timing was 4 degrees retarded so all you had to do is replace the timing chain and gear put a factory came back in it that was stock 0 and it would light them up! Great video!
Mike's back!
Killer beard, killer episode!
That car was called in México "valiant super Bee", we didn't have any pollution laws in that era so our v8's were not nuttered.
I had a 79 R/T that was made for export.
Thanks,for commenting,
Just discovered this channel please do a video on the valiant charger from here down under it was only a hemi slant 6 265 but was a real competitor back in its day
Owned the Plymouth Volare version '78 Richard Petty Town car.360 cu in added a racing automatic trans & dual 750 Holley carb.Girl from a neighboring state as I was driving thru stopped at a fast food joint wanted to go home with me....that's the attention that car got in 1986.BTW painted Petty blue & dark blue w/lighter blue vinyl seating.Still my fav all-time though thru time the stall button couldn't overcome the overheating.Traded in for a pos Dodge Charger in 1988?
I caught the Florida landscape, then the Florida license plate, when the car was on the lift, but, having gone to high school in Fort Lauderdale, and then finishing college in Gainesville in 1976, I sure would like to know what part of the state this was shot in!
I knew a guy that bought one of those brand new but it was Blue, it was a bone. So he put on one of the first nitrous oxide kits that were made and blew the 360 sky high.......that was in 1978.
I happen to like select examples of this era of car. Like a '75 Cordoba. I could have had a base Aspen with a 318 in the early 2000s for 1200 bucks. A grandma car with 18,400 miles. The dad wouldn't go for it, and ended up getting a shitbox Probe across the street that continually ate itself over the course of a year. Yes, the factory performance is crap, but hell, we're in the age of crate motors and laptop tunes. 500 horses and better suspension geometry, these things are the new hot rod. Except everyone hated them and there's so few survivors.
The 1978 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400/TA 400 (the ones with the 220 hp engines) were pretty fast cars for the time. Same with the Lil' Red Pickup by Dodge--I believe it was considered the fastest American vehicle at the time.
The little red express was indeed the fastest.
It beat the Porsche 928, the Firebird formula, the Vette etc etc
Maybe not the best car by performance standards but it's a piece of history.
Absolutely
I seen one at the Dodge Dealer back in 1978 . It was a lot of money when your 20 years old back then . I thought it was kind of cheesy just like the 1978 T/A Pontiac . Went Smokey and the Bandit came out I thought the movie was cheesy also . I like the Aspen a lot . My dad bought one in 1976 . I was the base model I mean base model coupe with a 4 speed overdrive 225 slant six . It was black and tan interior that really made it much more rare of a car than the Street Kit Car Aspen . Here is the good news about the 70's and most 80's cars . They was still caburated and they have a distributor . You can play around with that . These cars now days you dont have these things to play with . Another thing with Dodge back then . That they caught fire in the carb a lot .
Damn, that was a nice long break.
Yeah but we're back now!
Thank you for staying on TH-cam.
Johnny Lightning has matchbox versions under dodge aspen R/T. Headlights aren't fully correct but still cool and some have made Petty kit cars out of them.
I have a 78 Volare Super Coupe with 360, and had 2 Dodge RTs. My son has a 76 Volare Road Runner and 80 FL Marine Patrol Aspen. My first volare had a super six that outran Trans Ams.
Bty, wrong gas cap. That's fairly cheap as you can paint it. A guy on ebay wanted $400 for a supercoupe gas cap which is one of kind.
Were there two different front splitter options? I knew a guy with one of these back in the 80's and his front splitter moulded into the front fender flares.
Rare doesn't mean valuable! It's still just an aspen!!! I had an 78' dodge aspen RT 360-4bbl automatic! It had just 175hp with single exhaust and only 2:45•1 rear and it's only good for 0-60 in 9.1 seconds and quarter mile in 17.1@ 80mph.... you can call it anything you like, it is what it is! It was a nice car I bought new at 18 years old, but I got blown away by just about everything in that era of the later 70's...
Thumbs up within seconds just for the epic beard!
Nice Beard Mike ! ! !
I've seen a Roadrunner in that body style. You should do a Duster Hang 10 next. P.s. I'm gonna need that tough wheel for my Warlock.
Nice car.
love it, I have one of each in my Beehive
Petty was mostly a Plymouth (Ford in 69] man not technically a Dodge guy like Buddy Baker #71. I remember these back in the day.
Dodge Aspen Super Coupe 78-79 . Only 2 years just like the Magnum.
Dude, you look like a Civil War General
Wouldn't take much to really wake up that 360. Cam, heads, headers and she'd get up and go!
The graphics would come in the trunk. Is was up to the owner to put on or not.
W72, 400 4spd, trans am, were quick, for the day.
Hey Mike. Have you come to a decision on what your going to replace the monte with?
My dad had a 79 dodge aspen rt mint condition in his garage he never drives it 😂 i try to get him to its mint !
Wow
I seen the RT Aspen. And a Plymouth Volare version
My initial quess was a Volare Roadrunner
Pretty neat. I always liked the Aspen/Volare body style but bummed that the first year of production was 1976, and here in California, that puts them into our bi-annual smog check prison. Dangit, missed it by one year!
Being an old car guy in CA sucks!
Made in petty blue called the Richard petty special
I have a 78 Aspen, unfortunately it's the station wagon. I still love it though.
Make no mistake - wagons are awesome!
Awesomely awesome.
i want one!
He forgot to mention that the fastest production vehicle in 1978 was a pickup. A Lil' Red Express truck. It ran 0-60 in 6.6 sec.
Fastest production vehicle yes. Fastest production car, no.
+The House Of Muscle I apologize. Did not mean to offend you. I see the error of my way. You were trying to prove the owner correct by showing how it compared to other cars and I had to go and mention that it was nearly a full second slower than a pickup.
Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements.......that being said, I'd drive the hell out of it. Just funny how how nostalgia works.
Glass pack's? Gotta have Cherry Bombs on that!
I’ve always liked the F body cars. But they sure had a lot of problems: tsbs, recalls, etc.
I had a 1977
Wow do you look old with that beard, still looks cool though!
Didn't they make an Aspen/Roadrunner too?
Plymouth Roadrunner and Dodge Aspen R/T, yes.
i love it
I've heard about them but always dismissed them as a last gasp dressup pack.
That's a pretty spot-on assessment.
West Granada Blvd.
i gotta say
i want one