1978 Plymouth Volare

Check out that upholstery.

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You just don't see them this nice often at all, especially around here. And that upholstery may be 70s tacky, but it is durable and those seats are nicely comfortable. It has the Premier Interior and Exterior packages which is nice, too. Too bad it is only a 225, though. The 318 is much better for both performance and fuel economy. There is one thing I would do to any 79 or older Volare or Aspen, and that is to add the inner fenders from a 1980 model. The 80s were the only ones that had inner fenders, so the front outer fenders didn't rust along the top. 79 and older had nothing to protect the front fenders, which is why the always rust. Road grime scours the inside clean, and then the rust takes hold.

 

Like I said in another thread I had a 78 aspen wagon with a 360. That car went like crap on the highway really nice driver but under cover was rust on rust. I got hit by a lady in the snow and the car disintigrated. I knew it was rusty but wow it crumpled. I also had a 6 cld volare and that motor wouldnt die but the body rusted away from the frame but they were both good reliable cars. it was a very nice mid sized wagon

 

66, believe it or not, the Aspen/Volare twins were not mid-sized models. They were the compacts of the family, and marketed as the replacement for the Dart/Valiant twins. They could certainly be rusty buckets, that's for sure. So much for Chrysler's much hyped 7 stage dip and spray rust proofing process.