1977 Dodge Aspen review

[@Fevebblefester]

I have a 1980 Plymouth Volare that I bought in 2007 from the estate of the original owner. With 8400 miles. Now with 32,000. Slant six, automatic.

[@johnmaki3046]

These were VERY GOOD cars! Is yours a "slant 6" or "Super 6"? The "Super 6" could BURN RUBBER as well as ANY V-8! The "slant 6' is a GREAT motor, though!

[@Fevebblefester]

@@johnmaki3046 Just a regular 2 bbl. Still runs well though.

[@jload1]

The hood release is in the grille,closer to the left headlight.

[@H10.]

my dad used to have one right from the show room, it was french race blue color, have lots of memories in this car back when i was a child, it was a stupid choice to sell it some years ago, it was still new and operational, i really hope i can find it in good condition so i can buy it back in memory of my late father, love you dad

[@johnmaki3046]

They were actually "QUALITY 70s" rides! ALWAYS RAN!

[@anthonypritchard5881]

Nice car, good find. They had tempered glass in the 70's similar to todays

[@peterjauch3839]

Drove my Grandmother's old 1976 Aspen throughout high school, just like this one but green in color, 318. A lot of great memories!!! Ran great and never let down. Great car

[@manoelgid4283]

Qwantwz hp??

[@peterjauch3839]

@@manoelgid4283 about 150 or so.......lots of torque however....the pollution controls on it just sucked all the hp away I'm afraid 😨

[@johnmaki3046]

These were actually GREAT, AFFORDABLE, NICE CARS!

[@peterjauch3839]

They were great. Nothing fancy and pretty basic by today's standards but that is how it was back then.

[@andrewplantagenet5811]

I enjoyed your video. I especially liked your enthusiasm for finding this gem. I too wish you had opened the hood.

[@OsbornTramain]

That is a remote side view mirror like the sticker mentioned......it's just not electronic. The glass was shatter proof too....I use to prep these when they were brand new...that car is a beauty for sure...even the carpeting, the loop looked great.

[@klwthe3rd]

OsbornTramain what was your job title at the dealership?

[@trigger5.563]

We grew up in one of these 😢 Wow so many memories. The good ol days.I don't think my father paid that much for it in the early 90's . He probably paid $1500 at most I think

[@flipppy83]

My grandmother drove a dark metallic blue 77 4 door with a light blue bench seat vinyl interior and a slant six 225. Her mother bought it new and gave it to her in 83 when my great grandfather purchased a new 83 buick skylark. This one appears to be the base model aspen based on the side trim and full length tail lights. My grand mothers has two separate tail lights.

[@eltonjohn3236]

They're asking more for it than it was new.

[@timbuktug3321]

elton john they probably put a ton of money into it that’s why they are asking for more for that Aspen.

[@marks6663]

adjusted for inflation they asking a lot less.

[@turowat]

I know they are Granpa cars, but I love them! specially the 2 door.

[@johnmaki3046]

I owned a '78 Aspen 2 door (console, white interior, "318"! This was ONE GREAT CAR! After, I had a '78 Aspen "Super Coupe" ("360", but BADLY BEATEN!) LOVED THESE CARS, though!

[@MAGNUM05]

I love these 70s Dodges

[@onourshelf]

It was an intresting find.

[@MAGNUM05]

onourshelf Yes, because you don't too many of these on the roads anymore

[@johnmaki3046]

These "plain" cars WORKED!

[@andrewps84]

My dad had one of each; an Aspen and a Volare. He said the Aspen was junk the Volare was a tank. I still remember riding in it.

[@mworke]

You are real proud of this car. Good luck getting that price.

[@kurumdymountain6199]

Nice Video. It makes me cry. I once had one in white but sold it. It was in 1994.

[@canadiancatgreen]

one of the coolest cars you could find in a non specialty dealership

[@johnmaki3046]

YUP!

[@juhancruuz4786]

I really like that car, my father had one when I was a kid, and he always looked at it and took it more, until one day he changed it for a pick-up, the old 1978 Mexican Dodge Dart. (In Mexico it's Dodge Dart from 1973 to 1993.) 😢

[@Koexistence13]

Cool man. Buit to last! Thanks. I think the release is under the front bumper for the hood. The instruction book would of shown you and would of been cool to see you go through. Thanks again

[@johnmaki3046]

It was. I prefer interior "hood releases"! Thieves can still "do their thing", but I prefer NOT GROPING!

[@jasoncarpp7742]

Nice looking car. My aunt had a 1977 Aspen similar to this.

[@johnmaki3046]

Depending on the "factory assembly", these had the potential to be GREAT RIDES! They had THE SUPERIOR POWERTRAINS (of the era) AND THEY COULD HANDLE/MOVE!

[@tuscanangel1970]

LMAO .. I just bought one the other day .. 300$ .. she purrrrrrs... needs cosmetic help but the only rust in on the rear wheel wells.. I just love her .. I call her the CopperHead RoadRunner

[@DykeVanDick33]

Maryann Watts they recalled this for right fender rusting. They replaced them for free so that’s why you probably only have rusting in back.

[@nicomero6287]

That is a beautiful car.

[@ChrisJones-jz6el]

It's not a ugly car. It looks like it could be a young man's first car back in high school 25 years ago

[@khhm6565]

من اروع السيارات لها محبة خاصة .. اتمنى إعادة إصدار نفس الموديل للحصول على نسخة منها

[@jasoncarpp7742]

My aunt's 77 Aspen was a 2 door Special Edition. It had a metallic blue exterior with a vinyl roof. It also had a blue interior, with blue vinyl seating. Despite what I've been told about Aspen and Volare, hers was a fun car to drive. She never did burnouts with the car. She had the oil changed frequently. She was careful with how she did things with the car. She wasn't gentle with the car. But she wasn't reckless either.

[@johnmaki3046]

These were COOL RIDES!

[@jasoncarpp7742]

@@johnmaki3046 I agree. My favourite Aspen were the 1976-77 and the 1979-80 years. 🙂

[@johnmaki3046]

@@jasoncarpp7742 They were (occasionally, a buddy EXPERIENCED this) "poorly made", BUT THESE ALWAYS WERE GREAT RUNNERS/DRIVERS!

[@jasoncarpp7742]

@@johnmaki3046 That's what I heard about the Aspen/Volare cars. Not everyone I knew who owned one had a bad experience driving one.

[@johnmaki3046]

@@jasoncarpp7742 They were a "mixed bag" of braking/workmanship, but they were vehicles that "did the job" WELL!

[@dwk7375]

We had a 1977 beige Aspen with the slant six, drove it for a long time ,traded it off for 1981 LTD with a 302 AOD, bout a week later we bought it back for a second car,I finally traded it off for GMC pickup,

[@johnmaki3046]

Are you SORRY that you "dumped" a GREAT RIDE?

[@dwk7375]

@@johnmaki3046 seemed like the slant six had more get up and go than the 302, just hoped whoever bought the old Aspen took care of it

[@johnmaki3046]

@@dwk7375 I do also! The "slant 6" had GREAT potential! It was also DURABLE! The "Super 6" was AN ULTIMATE "ASS KICKER"!

[@redberry2484]

I want this car!!! Love it!

[@johnmaki3046]

These ALWAYS had "the look"! Many LIVED UP TO "the look"!

[@pup9et]

Had one, beige in color, interior the same as this one tho. Slant 6. Wasnt mine per say it was my parents. They had taken it off the road. I wasnt even old enough to get a permit yet. An i loved it cause it had bald tires and i used to be able to drive it around the yard spinning the tires and mom and dad couldnt tell cause the tires were bald and the car wasnt heavy enough to even leave imprints in the grass.

[@johnmaki3046]

These were GREAT old cars!

[@BazyarCodes]

old cars like that you pop the hood just by reaching underneath from outside.

[@4406bbldb]

We had a few of these a Chrysler engineering in highland park. They were Turbine powered but the newest variable pitch power turbine. I really thought they were close to production. Today a minor Hybrid system, just to run the compressor and modern trans, would make it work great but it doesn't have a place now.

[@UnderSprayedWhiteSkies]

I was expecting it to have the wing vents in the driver's and passenger's doors. we had a green, 1977 Volare.

[@johnmaki3046]

I NEVER saw an Aspen/Volare with wing windows! This was TRULY RARE!

[@lilpinkdragon1]

hood latch is near the hood, standard equipment

[@gregvenbrux6177]

It does have a remote driver's side mirror. The control for the mirror is on the driver's side door when you open it. It's a manual remote, not electric. My grandfather owned a Dodge Aspen with the remote mirror too. My 1967 Mustang also has a remote driver's side mirror - it's operated by cables inside the door, just like the Aspen.

[@Rafaelantonio84]

Carro MARAVILLOSO

[@adape0884frank]

How interesting and if only they would bring it back one day.

[@tuscanangel1970]

HOOD release is on the Front a little lever.. I have rear defrost though ..

[@manoelgid4283]

Teve algum Dodge Aspen original diesel??

[@knowbodiesfull5768]

It's a catalytic converter, not a Cadillac converter.

[@danielpadgett2831]

Just like it's a roof not a ruff

[@onourshelf]

It's located in Orland Park IL.

[@MrGoldenwaffler]

The car was built in 1977, not 1877 - yes, it has laminated safety glass. Aspen was the first car I ever drove legally on the road with.

[@johnmaki3046]

They were GOOD cars! I owned five!

[@seanpool8028]

Is it still there do you know of?

[@grapecornholio4612]

Nice! The Aspen/Volares are very well designed cars, but horribly executed the first 2 years. But the design proved bullet proof when you consider that these cars eventually evolved into the Diplomats, Gran Furys, and Fifth Avenues. All were bullet proof.

[@blanktemplate4415]

Grape Cornholio If Chrysler worked on preventing rust issues, it would've sold well.

[@richardcline1337]

I had the car that was basically the test bed for the Volare. It was a '74 Plymouth Valiant Brougham. That car had everything, plush interior, fantastic ride, the works. The standard top of the line Valiant's had a totally different package. I know a lot of people didn't like the Valiant/Volare series but they really were nice cars....and dependable. The only real problem, and all of the Chrysler products suffered from it, was that blasted ballast resistor block that kept burning out. I always had at least one spare and a small box end wrench in the glove box because I knew it was going to fail. Even the '68 Dodge Dart I had with the 225 sleepy six under the hood had that same problem. Those cars had more metal in the hood alone than most of these cookie cutter rolling game machines do today in their whole bodies.

[@johnmaki3046]

The CHEAP "braking systems" were HORRID, though!

[@davidallen5776]

Every new design, once it's introduced, is bound to have bugs in it...but they get removed over time.

[@johnmaki3046]

@@davidallen5776 There were a few "issues"; SOME SERIOUS that weren't "resolved" by the '79 model year, but I REALLY BELIEVE these were VERY GOOD CARS!

[@beans4brains428]

Hood release is in the grill

[@onourshelf]

Thanks.

[@janebook294]

only the secondary release dumb fuck

[@moisesdelgado9696]

@@janebook294 so, where is the primary release inside the car?

[@captainredneck0683]

The primary is alsp outside just like on most cars from that era.

[@michaelcole7162]

@@janebook294 oof lmao that IS the primary fam, there’s a tab you slide over and it unlatches, then lift an unhook the secondary

[@chrislemaster2695]

Hello that aspen was about 5395 new base price

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

Careful. My family had bought a new one in "77, for about 3 months and it was such a heap of junk my Dad took it back.

[@johnmaki3046]

My dad had a '65 Buick Special (NEW)! JUNK, but we were STUCK with it for a decade!

[@KKSSTORE]

Isnt that double what was brand new?

[@willardtaylor6249]

I purchased a 1977 Aspen in 1977. I had to be careful how used the accelerator because the car had a tendency to stall anytime I needed to speed up. The dealer could never resolve the problem, which I was told, had to do with carburetor design. After about a year or so, I had rust out behind the headlights. On a hot day, a piece of metallic tape came down and got the speedometer needle stuck on a certain position. After 3 years, I was glad to trade the car in for a Honda.

[@johnmaki3046]

MoPars, "in the day" had HORRID "Holley" carbs! The motors/bodies.chassis WORKED!

[@johnmaki3046]

Well, you like Asian cars! I DO NOT!

[@delagarza75]

Aspens and Volarés were beautiful. Quality on them wasn't top notch, but pretty cars anyway.

[@johnmaki3046]

And they WORKED!

[@qutaiba6]

Better than new charger

[@Seadweller451D]

Unbelievable!

[@tuscanangel1970]

mine is called a Plymouth Volare

[@سلامه-م9ض]

المشكلة الأساسية تهريب الزيوت من القير وايضا سلف بأداء التشغيل لاكنها كانت تحفه جميلة موديل ١٩٧٨م اللون بنى وبيج

[@-akramkamel9021]

قبل كم سنة كنت امتلك نفس هذه السيارة دوج استيشن 1977 سيارة روعة فعلآ

[@andresemanuelruiz2524]

Ese precio es dollar.o peso sudamericano?

[@ramonhernandez8378]

I wish to find a car same exact like this one for sale

[@2008ljr]

Wow my Aunt had the same exact car, color etc. but it was a 78.

[@johnmaki3046]

VERY hard to tell the years and Plymouth/Dodges apart! They were CLASSIC, though!

[@andydanko7074]

Whan a remote mirror was an option, wow have times changed!!!✌

[@johnmaki3046]

Now, "remote mirror" is standard! This is LIKE SO MANY "features" that are designed to make you FORGET that you are "cruising" in A TUB OF CRAP!

[@johnmaki3046]

I owned FIVE Aspen/Volares! IF the brakes WORKED (ACTUALLY) and the "build" was okay, these were GREAT CARS!

[@moparphil6987]

No,there's a hood release down by the brake release

[@klwthe3rd]

moparphil6987 no, that was optional. Standard hood release was in the front grille next to the drivers headlight. Maybe your car had the optional inside release

[@joeg3741]

Why are they always brown?

[@100percentSNAFU]

These cars were notorious for getting vapour locked. It was because of the poor design of having the intake and exhaust valves on the same side of the cylinders. Still a looker though for a 40 year old basic saloon car. Nobody saved these. They were disposable, as were all economy cars of the era.

[@greymouser7]

Good Stuff

[@310gman]

I know a little about cars but don't know jack about them. And it's Hancook not Hancock. Oh and the hood release is outside

[@Phenom98]

This is THREE DOG! AUUUU

[@KKSSTORE]

did it sell? Would be nice for someone.

[@johnmaki3046]

FOR ANYONE!

[@kevinpatrickmacnutt]

Given it is a Dodge Aspen it could be rusting out and it would still be showroom condition.

[@2008ljr]

I believe it was about $5500.00 brand new.

[@johnmaki3046]

PROBABLY LESS!

[@killerontheloose80]

MAN THIS CAR ALMOST PUT DODGE OUT OF BUSINESS.

[@johnmaki3046]

These weren't "awful"! MANY WERE GREAT!

[@BazyarCodes]

They've had the "safety glass" forever..

[@378904]

this looks like my car only in better condition! where is this at? chicago?? mine doesnt have a vinyle top. i notice when i drive it a lot of black people give me the thumbs up. i got mine on e bay for 1500.00 had to pick it up on the east coast and drive back to chicago. never missed a beat. and yes,hood is a bit tricky on it. latch is on front grill drivers side and can be hard to locate if not use to it. great for detering battery theft!! lol

[@rodneypreynolds239]

is that dodge77for sell

[@rodneypreynolds239]

if for sell how much u asking

[@rodneypreynolds239]

+Rodney p Reynolds plase gave me a call at 478 4913419

[@scottmars3191]

The V8 is quick and it can get up and go.they can beat V8 trucks

[@OutnBacker]

The only thing that killed those things was rust.

[@eyeswideopen67]

that's a lot of money for that car. I've had a few.

[@austinpowers1514]

7k is way too much

[@davidallen5776]

It may not have been perfect, but it was still a good car.

[@johnmaki3046]

These ALWAYS ran! I COULD NOT say as much about "glorious" ASIAN IMPORTS I have gotten STUCK with!

[@urntwrthyZ]

At 31,000 mies it's about 11,000 miles over its actual life expectancy. RUST, engine problems.

[@onourshelf]

Wow

[@p3l1k44n1]

I have a dodge aspen 1980 that has over half a million km's on it. Which means i've driven it 310685 miles. That's 290685 miles over the life expectancy. Still runs like a dream and has no engine problems. The compression pressures are still strong.

[@MrModel20]

I have a 1976 Dodge Dart with 140,000 miles. Runs perfect

[@klwthe3rd]

Kelly Daniels the Dodge Dart's and Plymouth Valiant's were predessors to this car and they had better reliability and longevity

[@bradrichards6107]

The car is not worth the asking price. It's still a nice car though.

[@onourshelf]

It stood out in that lot.

[@classic287]

Nice 👍 car, but not worth that kind of money...

[@anthonysalinas9247]

Lmfao! Handcock ! Sorry man. But, it's Handcook tires.

[@brianreilly4306]

Anthony Salinas it's Hankook.

[@classic287]

Anthony Salinas, “HANCOOK”

[@aliabdullaziz9321]

بكم سعرها بالدولار الامريكية سيرة ممتازة

[@waterheaterservices]

Mohammed was a pedophile

[@milfordcivic6755]

I wouldn't pay a penny over 3k for it

[@thefarsidefanthefarsidefan7374]

Over 6000 dollars?... not worth it.

[@mjuberian]

One of the biggest pieces of shit ever built ! I had a 78 Volare that was the worst car I ever owned...garbage vehicle by Chrysler... One of the reason the Japanese ran rings around US car manufacturers.

[@blanktemplate4415]

tilley Schmolph Bullshit, it failed because of rust issues.

[@mjuberian]

as stated a POS

[@klwthe3rd]

John Doe why were there rust issues?? They advertised in their literature and other dealer promos that the cars were dipped in zinc phosphate for corrision protection.

[@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary]

They used Aspens as our Drivers Training Cars in High School. I'd rather spend $7k on a Souped Up Tricycle!!

[@williamrtorres1182]

No disrespect but that car ain't worth that kind of money