| Re: Just Wondering |
Subject: Re: Just Wondering by bogus on 2012/2/8 21:52:55 This is the most telling, I think: Spring, 1976, my Brother buys a new Plymouth Volarie (sp?) and my Dad buys a new Dodge Aspen. Both with 318 V8s, AC/PS/PB/AC/AM-FM. The Plymouth was a 4dr in silver, the Aspen light blue 2dr. The only differences that I was aware of, the Plymouth came with the cop suspension and cooling package, and power locks and drivers seat. The Aspen lived in Delaware, the Volarie, in Florida. The Aspen was an absolute piece of shit. It never ran right from day one, never was reliable enough to trust to run right. After Dad died in 1977, Mom tried to drive it, but hated it. And it continued to run poorly. It was all the early emission gear that caused it. And the techs were not trained to fix it. A nice Edelbrock manifold with a Holley 550 4bbl would have so fixed that thing. Nice mild tune and leave the cat. Mom trades it in the spring of 78 for another piece of shit, and Audi Fox. But that's another story. It had about 30k miles on it when Mom traded it in. Paul keeps the Plymouth, drives it daily for 4+ years, keeps it as a 2nd car and company car for another 4 years and when it was finally sold, it had somewhere north of 225k miles on it. |
