(This marks new entry No. 500 for me here at Curbside Classic.) I had written an essay in high school about my dislike of the word “potential”. This word was the source of many jokes and anecdotes between a few friends and me, as it seemed most often attached to backhanded compliments or to point out certain inadequacies. “Joe’s not quite there, but he has so much potential.” (I’ve got your ‘potential’, would say the voice in my head.) I don’t know. I suspect I might have been more sensitive to criticism than some of my peers for reasons I’ve previously alluded to here at CC, but it took me a long time to make peace with that word. I’m cool with it now. It’s far better to have the raw goods that could be developed, versus having none at all. I hope I never stop striving toward increased self-actualization.
1976 Plymouth Volaré Premier press photo.
It’s normally not my practice to write about cars I’ve seen at shows, but sometimes I’ve just had to listen to my heart. Oh, the Plymouth Volaré. The Dennis family had owned a ’77 coupe purchased new from Chinonis Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge on the north end of Flint. It was burgundy with a matching vinyl interior and a white, pebble-grained vinyl roof that stretched from the A- to the B-pillar. There were matching, white bodyside moldings. Deluxe hubcaps with the Plymouth “frog legs” corporate insignia in the center added a touch of class, as did the full-width chrome panel between the taillamps. Perhaps my favorite exterior features on that car were the rear-facing turn signal indicators mounted on top of each of the front fenders. Our neighbors’ fancy ’74 Monte Carlo didn’t have that feature.
Your author being photobombed by our ’77 Volaré coupe.
The Dennises didn’t own GM products in a GM factory town, which made us yet another anomaly (interracial, immigrant father, etc.), but our Volaré was a sharp-looking car that my parents kept maintained immaculately, even after it had started to rust (immediately). It had the Slant Six, which I’m guessing would have been the single-barrel version and not the “Super Six” with the two-barrel carburetor, if my memory may be trusted of its lack of brisk acceleration. It also had a host of problems that we first would take back to Chinonis for repairs, recalls, and service, and then later to a local, neighborhood mechanic, Mr. Smiley. My parents used to say that after Mr. Smiley worked on it, our Volaré never quite ran right, but if it had Lean Burn, and from everything I’ve read about that system, that was probably more to blame than anything Mr. Smiley did. He seemed cool and I remember liking him.
The Dennis family’s ’77 Plymouth Volaré had wheel covers like this.
In my young childhood, the Volaré was the nicer, newer car in our stable for years (our other car was a ’71 Plymouth Duster, which I’d love to have today), and I honestly can’t remember my parents saying many bad things about it. The Volaré did leave us stranded next to the expressway once, but it took us semi-regularly on the two-hour drive between Flint and my grandparents’ farm in northwest Ohio without issue. We ended up giving it to my sister when it was eight years old and still looked great, aside from the rust. Her man at the time had even remarked to my dad how well-kept it was. (“Doc, you keep your cars good!“) It was a pretty car. I had no idea at the time that the Volaré was the source of so much hardship… not only for many buyers (who might have been just like the Dennises), but for parent company Chrysler Corporation as a whole. It was just the family car to this young kid.
There was great representation of all different makes and models, mostly domestic, at the annual Back To The Bricks car festival in downtown Flint this past August. I took so many pictures that I’m still editing them over a month later, but few of those cars instilled in me quite the same combination of intrigue and pathos as this ’79 Volaré. I’ve photographed many a Chevy Vega and even professed to loving the style of the hatchback, even writing about of few of them here. The trouble-prone Vega, like the Volaré, could be seen as a tragic figure. Why, then, am I able to look at a Vega, admire it, and fantasize about what could have been without getting the same slightly ill feeling in the pit of my stomach as I usually get with a Volaré?
I want to be clear that it’s not this particular Volaré I have any issues with, and I love that it was there. This example was a cool, interesting car that has been reasonably well-preserved, and I especially admire the inventiveness its owner used in sourcing the grille from what looks like an early Plymouth Reliant to stand in for the original (it’s the wrong texture for a ’78 or ’79 Volaré; would look more at home on a ’76 or ’77 model), a grille that was so often broken or missing on many examples. It’s just that I can’t look at this car, with my understanding of its history and almost immediate, adverse impact on Chrysler, and not feel a profound sadness, wishing for a different outcome in some alt-world universe.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. You can read the CC “Deadly Sin” article here in this link, but it’s basically like this: after sixteen years of well-engineered, popular, dead-reliable product in the Plymouth Valiant (and Dodge Dart for many of those years) through ’76, Volaré and Aspen came to market underdeveloped and and did untold damage to the reputation of its already struggling parent company that couldn’t give away its full-sized cars. The F-body’s problems and factory recalls were myriad and record-setting, at the time. The Vega doesn’t seem quite as depressing only because GM was healthy. Seventies Chrysler wasn’t. These cars needed to be fundamentally good – with quality at least as good as the Valiant and Dart they were designed to replace. The first two model years were the most numerous… and disastrous for quality control.
That brings us to our featured ’79, the Volaré’s penultimate year, and at a time by which most of the bugs had been worked out of this platform. The coupe was never the most popular of the Volaré’s three body styles, often vying with the wagon for the bottom rung, but it’s my favorite. The wagons seem to get all the love from an aesthetic perspective, but I’m not necessarily a wagon person. I’m part of a demographic that came of age when two doors equaled sporty (to a greater or lesser extent), and this is a great-looking coupe even at its most basic, unadorned level. That black Road Runner coupe in the brochure photo above is a clean, attractive, purposeful-looking sport compact.
Check the lower left for what the ’79 Road Runner package included.
Of almost 209,700 Volarés sold for ’79, this is one of about 63,600 coupes, complementing 95,400 sedans and 50,700 wagons. It should be noted that the ’79 production number was just 36% of the 327,700 high-water figure posted for the second-year ’77s. The ’78 tally of 256,800 represented a decrease of 21.6% from the prior year; The 8.2% drop for ’79 seems relatively benign and not out of the ordinary for a design in its fourth year of production. Factory-stock, these Volaré Road Runners looked sharp, and a 195-horsepower 360 V8 was optional, which would make it reasonably fast for its day. The Volaré was one of only two domestically designed and built Plymouths available for ’79, with the other being the L-body Horizon. Other Plymouth-badged offerings that year included the Mitsubishi-sourced Sapporo coupe and exceptionally good-looking Arrow hatchback.
Getting back to the idea of unfulfilled potential, it’s a little bit of a challenge for me to look at this really cool survivor, which has clearly been built up and is well cared-for, and appreciate its rarity and cool factor without also catching a whiff of the stench of the F-body’s fumbled initial execution. I was an avid Billboard music chart follower at one time, and when reading about the start and trajectory of the Volaré and Aspen, I get the same feeling as when I had first read news stories about Mariah Carey’s Glitter movie and soundtrack back in 2001. In both cases, high expectations were met with some troubling reviews and underperformance of the finished product.
The Chrysler F-bodies eventually fulfilled their potential and went on to genuine success in the ’80s as M-bodies (especially the money-spinning New Yorker Fifth Avenue), much like the Glitter soundtrack has now come to be appreciated in recent years. (I like it, being a fan of most things ’80s.) Will there similarly ever be redemption for the Volaré in years to come, or is over four decades of bad-car exile still not enough, even for its most desirable editions? I choose to see the very existence of this perfectly imperfect ’79 Volaré Road Runner at a popular car festival as evidence that it’s never too late to come into one’s own, no matter how long it takes.
Downtown Flint, Michigan.
Saturday, August 19, 2023.
Brochure pages were sourced from www.oldcarbrochures.org. The press photo scanned was purchased secondhand in Detroit!
Nice Article,
Btw the grille looks like it might be from a Mercedes W114 or W123
That was my immediate thought too. But then I’m more familiar with them than the Volare.
Thank you! I’m sure that in Flint, a Reliant grille would be easier and more cost-effective to source than that of a Mercedes, but now I’m curious to see both grilles side-by-side. Many of the U.S. automakers were aping that Mercedes grille for years.
500 CC articles! Thank you Joe Dennis. I always enjoy reading your work.
Thanks, John!
Congratulations on your 500th piece! Your words are woven into the fabric of CC.
As for the Volare, it looks like they cribbed the 1974 Malibu grille to try to grab some sales from Chevy. I have not one good thing to say about Volarepens, except that after this penultimatism, they went away.
I too would like (love) to have my 1974 A-body back, both automotively and biologically.
Thank you so much. Now that you mention it, the Malibu’s grille for ’74 was the one that resembled that of a Mercedes most closely. That would have been another guess for this one’s grille, except that I think the Malibu’s is wider and flatter dimensionally (doesn’t curve out as much).
Joseph, congratulations on your 500th article! Your thoughtfulness and intention with your writing and your photos comes through in all your posts.
Your description of the word “potential” reminds me of the kind of nicey-nice backhanded passive aggressiveness I encountered a lot while growing up in Boulder, CO. Other go-to word like this is “interesting”, as in “a Plymouth Volare…interesting choice.”
I’ve only had negative associations with the word potential recently. In my kids’ school district, they did away with letter grades for classes because they said bad grades were demoralizing, or some such nonsense.
In their place were phrases like “shows potential” which I believed replaced D or something. And it’s exactly what you describe as “nicey-nice backhanded passive aggressiveness.” Now I’m up there with Joseph in loathing that term.
See? And then the whole thing then becomes that a word like “potential” which is neither positive or negative on its own can then become loaded with all of kinds of baggage, as it was for me. Just give me the danged D and motivate me to do better.
Thank you, Corey! And about “interesting”, I have a particularly toxic family member who had started to use that one at some point within the context you describe, which I shut down immediately. Not a fan of that one, either.
Congratulations Joseph, on your remarkable 500 entry milestone, writing for Curbside Classic. Whenever I am here, I reliably read your posts first. And always appreciate your very down-to-earth writing style, and approach to life, and cars. You give all cars a fair shake. Your optimism, and strong knack for objective and accurate analysis, is much appreciated. And of course, I really appreciate your excellent knowledge of pop culture and music. An accomplishment to be very proud of Joe! Thank you!
There were two new Volares and a couple new Aspens in my extended family growing up, so like you, I am very familiar with them as well. Excellent find, on this ’79.
Looking back, my main issue with the Aspen/Volare (besides their uneven early workmanship and recalls), was they needed to be more advanced, when introduced in 1976. Lighter, more fuel conserving, and closer to what the Ford Fairmont turned out to be. The Volare/Aspen, were essentially full-sized cars, on a smaller scale. Not good enough for the times. Their styling and trim packages seemed inspired by the early 1970s, and cars like the Valiant and Ford Maverick. The Aspen mid-range Custom trim package design for example, with its mid-bodyside chrome and vinyl insert trim, appeared cribbed directly from the Maverick. Old school, and dated. Styling of the original F-bodies seemed very conservative, traditionally American, and bland. Nothing, European-inspired about the Aspen/Volare at all. Pathetic really, during an era when European-influenced design was becoming huge.
I’ve said here before, if Chrysler had their styling act more together, the Fairmont-like one year only nose from 1980, should have been offered on the Volare/Aspen from day one in 1976. Or even better, the F-Bodies would have looked more like the F-Body-derived Monteverdi Sierra.
The subject car doesn’t really work for me. The late ’70s silver concentric line graphics and early ’70s style cop car-steel wheels and hub caps clash. Prefer a factory look. And the very formal Mercedes-like Volare nose, and working-class Duster-like bodysides, never really worked for me either, on Volare-based Roadrunners.
That also looks like the front of the humpback Century of similar vintage.
“Or even better, the F-bodies would have looked more like the F-Body-derived Monteverdi Sierra.”
+1!
Pic of the Sierra sedan.
Volare meets Fiat 130 coupe!
Thank you so much, Daniel! I did like the 1980 front end of the Volaré and Aspen, but it’s the original ’76 and ’77 front that I like the best, probably since that’s what was in my driveway when I was little.
It’s funny you mention the other compacts, as I was thinking about that this morning before work. In the mid-’70s, and if I was looking for a domestic two-door compact, Ford would have been out. Granada and Maverick do nothing for me. Style-wise, it’s GM or Chrysler. The Mustang II is nice enough, but it’s a *subcompact*. Even the ’79 RR in the ad in the article looks more substantial.
I do think the sportiness of the two-door F-bodies falls apart at the front. We’ve got brougham up there, and sporty everywhere else.
I love the ad for that wagon with the sweet wheels and Smokey and the Bandit inspired stripes and flares and airdam- surely they made at least ONE of those, I mean they had to take pics of it!
Now I’m curious about actual production numbers. That’ll be a fun way to kill some time on a train ride.
Congratulations on posting your 500th CC article! I enjoy your frank, honest, and unpretentious writing style and especially your photography. Your ability to capture automotive ephemera before it disappears amazes me, as I’d still be fumbling with the lense cap long after the car had passed by.
With respect to the Volare/Aspen twins, I always favored the wagon above the other body styles, finding it to be clean-lined and airy, everything that Mom’s 1976 Torino wagon was not. I was a vocal teenage proponent of the Volare replacing our 1971 Coronet wagon, but my Dad shied away from it after hearing of the multiple recalls, lousy repair record, and horrific assembly quality as reported by Consumer Reports. I still have to live that one down as the family car guy: (my brother’s tagline) “are you sure the Camry will be more reliable than a Volare?” I’ll just have to remember to tell him that the F-bodies had so much potential.
Thank you, William! Your last line has me laughing on this rush hour train. The wagons did have an exceptionally clean, Peugeot-like simplicity to their shape. I do like them.
As far as capturing cars on the move, I’ve had practice to where it’s all about motor memory at this point. Almost like one smooth movement to un-shoulder the strap, remove the cap, and click away.
Congrats on your 500th, Joseph. While I don’t always comment, your essays are required reading here at the CC Academy.
My only experience with these is the rental Dodge Aspen we had when I went to Minnesota in 1977 at the age of 17. I actually really liked driving that car. Ironically, in a weird sort of CC Effect™, in yesterday’s repeat post “Roadside Classics” about the drive-ins, I commented about that very rental car! In 2017!
That repeat post appears right before this one chronologically. There was talk of Chicago Dogs, I mentioned that you may chime in, and you did! Fun times here at CC, but I digress as usual. (It’s kinda my thing 😉)…
Back to your writing style, which many here apparently love as indicated above, I find your essays relatable, and am always amazed at how you tie together life experiences and cars. Relating things in your essays to music is another thing I really enjoy, and always have. My wife gets annoyed with me when I do that… see some random thing going on and immediately relate it to a song.
Of course she may take it personally when I quote Thomas Dolby when she cleans the house: “I can’t believe it! There she goes again! She’s tidied up, and I can’t FIND anything!”
But there I go digressing again…
Rick, thank you so much. Personally, I find that all of the digressions add to what makes this site so enjoyable, and such a pleasure for contributors like me to put things like this together and out into the cybersphere. Thomas Dolby is great. And now I feel like I want a Chicago dog… those never go out of season, even long after summer’s over.
Congratulations on your 500th article! I always look forward to your pieces, and greatly admire how you’re able to generate such great content every week.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head with “wishing for a different outcome in some alt-world universe.” In a better world, these would have been in driveways all over suburbia, and would have lasted longer than a few years before they rusted out. A high school classmate of mine had one, and it was one of the few cars I’ve actually disliked driving (granted it was 10+ years old at the time, but still… yuck).
Eric, not to sound like the mutual appreciation society, but I also enjoy your work (and the work of all of the fellow contributors). What’s funny is that when I had sat down to draft this, I actually didn’t know this was going to be essay No. 500. I also don’t believe in coincidences, so when I noticed it was number 500, I was pleased that I had been able to tie in other themes (family ownership; brief musical reference; hometown) that have been important or formative in my life, good or bad.
If only your 500th article could have been on a Galaxie 500…
The irony of this is that I spotted a *mint* ’73 Galaxie 500 in Las Vegas two weekends ago. I write these things weeks in advance. 🙂
Thank you Joseph for your dedication to post here every Tuesday morning. It’s become a staple here at CC; one to look forward to each week. Your writing continues to grow and reflect your commitment to personal growth. In other words, you are truly fulfilling your potential. 🙂
Thank you so much, Paul. As was the case with playing the piano and is so with writing, the more I have done it consistently, the more I’ve enjoyed it and improved at it. I’m sure at least a few of my former English teachers would approve.
Just one comment, I had a 79 Volare with the “Super Six” /6. It was a two bbl not dual carbs. Had all the rust issues though. I still miss that engine!
Thank you for catching that, and I have fixed it. 500 articles in, and I’m not immune to gaffes like this. LOL Appreciate the help!
Not to pile on Joe, but the sales stats above the last picture says,
“Of almost 209,700 Volarés sold for ’79, this is one of about 63,600 coupes, complementing 95,400 wagons and 50,700 wagons.”
I image that one of those numbers (95,400 most likely) was meant to be sedans.
This isn’t my first essay with more than one “factory recall”, and it probably won’t be the last. Thank you!
I want to add my congratulations on your 500th. essay. I always enjoy a Joseph Dennis contribution. They are well written, honest, with a lot of empathy and humanity. I find them very easy to relate to. Thanks for sharing your experiences and feelings.
These Plymouths remind me of the late 60’s Chevy Novas. There was always a faction of car guys that were Mopar guys, and these Dusters/Volares were the lower priced choice instead of a more expensive vintage Road Runner or GTX. I never had any experience with them. Wasn’t the performance Volare wagon referred to in some ads as the “Load Runner?”
Jose, thank you so much. I think part of what appeals to me about one of these Volare Road Runners is the affordability factor. It also seems to me (as a non-mechanic) that with the plethora of Mopar parts available, one could build one to taste.
I had to Google “Load Runner” just now, and while that seems like copy I might have read in an ad somewhere, I couldn’t an actual ad that refers to the wagon as such. Who knows? It might be out there!
500 articles, and not only that, 500 thoughtful and well written articles.
OK Joseph, now you’re just making the rest of us look bad.
Thank you for taking the time and effort to make Tuesdays at CC special.
” … but it took me a long time to make peace with that word … “.
In the 1950s, public education either did not know about, or work to incorporate any existing knowledge of, dyslexia into addressing student learning troubles.
Middle school guidance counselors called me “intellectually lazy”, not willing to do class work, and in high school, not college material. They advised me to attend a trade school after high school so I could make a living.
When my parents heard this, they we upset, a bit angry at me for being lazy, but said I should at least try college.
Sometime in my sophomore year at Adelphi College things just started to click. It was like driving a car that was struggling to keep up with traffic and discovering that it had one (or even two) higher gears available.
Of course, if I had gone to trade school and become a plumber or an electrician, I might have become more successful and prosperous than as a college educated computer coder. We’ll never know.
One can understand eventually making peace with the word “potential”, but never with the word “lazy”.
Regarding your family’s 1971 Duster in your post, my same year Duster was not a good car. Maybe your parent’s Duster was built on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. Mine was probably built on a Monday or a Friday, or just before – or after – a long holiday weekend.
Thank you, once again, for your words and insight. I can’t imagine what it must have felt like to have something like dyslexia and be led to believe / gaslighted into thinking one either wasn’t trying hard enough, or what have you. The frustration of just not knowing. I’m sure that once you had the proper diagnosis, that it felt completely validating. I know I would have breathed a huge sigh of relief, regardless of what had transpired up to that point.
And, yes – maybe your Duster was a Monday or Friday car! I do remember having read your COAL series and feel like I now need to go back and re-read some of those. It’s something all of us contributors (and I’m sure you can relate) try to balance, between generating our own content, reading others’ articles (which are also great), and also getting away from the computer to do other things. We all strike the right balance eventually. 🙂
The image of the Volare ‘sport wagon’ (or whatever it was called) reminds me of something I once read about John Ricardo who, along with Gene Cafiero, would have an ill-conceived Chrysler co-CEO position after Lynn Townsend departed.
It seems that earlier, when it became apparent that the Road Runner was going to be a hit, Ricardo enthusiastically championed the idea of making the Road Runner its own model line, complete with Road Runner sedans and station wagons.
The Volare sport wagon sure seems like it has Ricardo’s stamp all over it.
Wow. A full line of Road Runners would have been like the “Mustang Mach E”s of the ’70s. …Or I’m trying to come up with something else. I do like the Volare and Aspen sport wagons, and it appears that at least a few of them were sold. But I’m secretly thankful they weren’t Road Runners. Meep meep!
Congrats on hitting the big 500!
I still remember how excited I was when these came out. These were finally going to put Chrysler in a position for big market share gains, given the higher refinement these cars were to have over the old Valiants and Dusters. And then the reports of problems started coming. If you could have lined up all the dissatisfied owners in their cars, how many trips to the moon and back would that be?
I had my own brush with late 70s Mopar, a brush from which I continue to recover. But I still kind of like these. The one your parents picked sounds like it was a sharp looking car when it was new.
Thank you, JP!
As I was writing this one, I was trying to imagine being one of the owners / purchasers of one of the early ones and watching as:
– First recall. Okay, it was a fluke. Still love the car. At least they caught it!
– Second recall. Whoops! Maybe mine was a so-called “Monday car” or “Friday car”.
– Third recall. Dude… I do not understand this.
Congrats on reaching 500 – wow. I don’t recall reading that many, I’m going to have to go back and check out the others. There goes today!
I’m always intrigued by how you segue into a car feature from an unexpected direction. Potential. It’s like that comment on a school report ‘Could do better’. Meaningless, really. A copout; the teacher writing the report could do better.
I remember reading about these when they first came out, and one local magazine said we’d get them to replace the home-grown fuselage Valiant which hadn’t lived up to expectations. The design with its low waistline and glassy greenhouse looked clean and modern except for that craggy front end which seemed like it didn’t belong. And the overabundance of chrome, which seemed to be a feature of seventies American design. Oh well, we dodged a bullet not getting these down under. And the hyperchromatosis is easily fixed. Here’s a different view of my ’79.
Thank you, Peter! I always really enjoy reading about the auto industry in Oceania, courtesy of this site. I understand Australia had some challenges specific to there, with oil prices, labor, etc. I can only imagine how a car like our F-body (assuming all of the same early quality control issues would have carried forward) would have “helped” Chrysler’s fortunes down there.
I like seeing the rear three-quarter view of the targa-roof ’79 Volare you had featured in one of your own recent posts! And while I like the front end, and as I’ve mentioned in a response to a different comment, the front end could have been smoother in going with the sporty / European flavor of the rest of the car’s lines. That Monteverdi Sierra, which was based on the F-body, looks like a completely different car.
Granted, U.S. tastes meant that we wanted faux-Mercedes grilles and things like that, but still – I wonder what a Volare Road Runner with a non-broughamy front end would have looked like.
My dad bought a new Aspen wagon in June 1978, with the Super Six and torqueflite. He purchased it at SouthBank Dodge, on Johnston Road in Ottawa, for just over $6,300. Still in business, at the same location today.I still remember him arriving home that bright sunny evening around 7pm, after the 90km drive west from Ottawa.
Though it was a ’78, looked exactly like this ’79. Same Cashmere exterior paint. Same wheel covers and whitewall style. Same Custom exterior trim. Included the roof rake and tailgate air deflector, as well. Exactly in every way, as this one. Except, his had a copper brown vinyl interior.
Always reliable. Except for the Ballast Resistor. Which went at least three times by 1980. He always carried spares.
Spelling correction: “Included the roof rack…”
Front fenders were fine, for the life of the car until 1991. Never required, replacement and repainting, as the recalled ’76 and ’77 models required.
Good looking wagon. If only the ’76 had had the bugs worked out as on the ’78+ models…
Congratulations on batting 500! (Not .500) As always, a thoughtful Tuesday read. Aside from enjoying your writings, I feel I’ve gained some new perspectives on music and fashion of the ‘80’s, compared to what I experienced as I was well into adulthood (or so I thought, having just turned 23 when the ‘80’s started). One thing about the word potential: as an engineer, I learned some new meanings for the word. Wikipedia describes potential as “a currently unrealized ability”. Nothing to with an inadequacy. A boulder at the edge of a cliff, or a high voltage battery with nothing connected to it, have a LOT of potential. Just one action, which could be very intentional, such as pushing the boulder or touching both terminals of the battery with a wrench, can have a huge impact.
An early 383 or 440 Roadrunner has a lot of potential, when it’s standing still. All it takes to realize that potential is to floor the throttle – or push it off a cliff. Technically speaking, these Volaré Roadrunners have less potential, in just about every sense of the word.
Thank you, and I appreciate this alternate way of looking at “potential”. Sometimes it can be the context in which we experience a word or idea that can overshadow any other meanings or understandings of it, and what you’ve written here is a good reminder of that, and that sometimes it’s okay to step back and recalibrate.
Nice article about the 79 Plymouth volare Roadrunner, I believe it is mine as I was at Flint Back to the bricks with it this year 2023, and yes that is indeed a Mercedes grille in there upside down, also it has a 340 out of a 72 duster with a 4 speed. It’s currently up for sale
Hi, Dennis! I’m sorry I missed you at this year’s show. I talked with the gentleman parked next to you with the ’73 Charger for quite a while that Saturday. I had the grille all wrong – thought it was from a Reliant! Very nice work.