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Six Flags Over Tomsk
06/04/09

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I say nice price, but you'd have to be Rocky Mountain high to pay one cent more.
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Paul Y. can't get in the club; gotta parking lot pimp
06/04/09

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I don't care how nice it looks, it's an Aspen.

My girlfriend's dad was just recounting to me this past weekend the period in the early 80s in which he owned 7 Aspens and Volares, and had a total of about $1000 into the lot of them, and three running cars at any given time.

Ugly, shitty, forgettable cars. There's a reason that these don't show up at Barrett-Jackson commanding 6 figures (at least I hope they won't in the future).
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Uncle Bo
06/04/09

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It's a little pricey but I'd still buy it. Nice price.

T-top's like a Corvette? No, dude. T-top's like a Chrysler Cordoba. T-top's like a Mustang II (Boredom - zero).

My parents had a '78 Aspen wagon back then. 318, auto, woodgrain, roof rack, no 8-track, though. Quite the Brady-mobile. The car would stall constantly, even in the middle of a turn. At 16, I got to be quite skilled at restarting the car quickly while still maintaining control.

This '77 is sweet. PM yellow, t-tops (hell, yeah!), white disco interior, padded vinyl roof, 8-track.... its got it all!

If I had this car, I'd get dressed in my best Urban Cowboy clothes, drop in my Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, pick up my lady and head on over to Tony Roma's, then maybe catch a late showing of Annie Hall. Nice...
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DoctorNine
06/04/09

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"Highly Optional" Well that says it right there. Does that mean it's metrosexual? Or by optional, do they mean, "it's ok as a second car, because in no way will the reliability allow you to use it as your primary transport"? Besides, that leather interior is WHITE!?! If I am going full on Ricardo Montalban era MOPAR, I want a dark reddish-brown Rich Corinthian Leather vibe. But that's just me. You could easily pump up the volume in the engine bay. No easy way to fix the handling on these though, they wallow like a pig. The torsion bar front end has to be replaced with aftermarket coil-overs just to get it to handle as well as your average Crown Vic.

So no. Tis crack, my fellow Jalopniks, crack.
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mechimike
06/04/09

@DoctorNine: The torsion bar front/ leaf spring rear suspension is actually quite capable. I could go into the physics behind the superiority of torsion bars over standard coil springs but that would be beyond the scope of this website.
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engineerd
06/04/09

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Totally a Nice Price.

It has T-Tops! That's worth $5,000 alone, according to the engineerd Fair Market Value (eFMV patent pending) calculator. Add on to it the fact that it's the same color as the Oldsmobile our very own Crazy Euro Car Guy wrote about and you get to a Nice Price. Nice Price, indeed.

Now, where did I hide that back-up bottle of brefass scotch?
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scroggzilla raids again
06/04/09

@engineerd: Judging by it's output, I think your eFMV drank your brefass scotch, ate your payote, and chased it with crack.
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engineerd
06/04/09

@SCROGGS!!: Probably. That was quite a stretch, huh?
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BTLFED
06/04/09

@engineerd: Let's do a checklist:

T-Tops? Check
PM Yellow paint? Check
Sweet padded white vinyl top? Check
8-Track? Check
Made the year I was born? Check
Could cause you to spontaineously grow a mullet while listening to Foghat on the 8-track player? Check

You are correct. Nice price indeed.
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mechimike
06/04/09

@Sir BTLFED Der Lederhosen: We seem to have a fair number of 1977 Model Year Jalops commenting on this car. Must be some sort of time warp black hole thingamabob. I've been looking for a '77 MY car for my collection, too. The first vehicle I ever bought was a '77 GMC Suburban, and ever since I sold it my life has somehow felt a little empty.
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Elhigh
06/04/09

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There's no freaking way.

Consider the many ways this car stinks: It has a nice, big motor - enough twist to do yeoman duty in a fullsize truck - but less power than in a ten-year old Subaru. It's named after a plant, which suggests immobility. It's thirty years old, which no matter how nice the car was to start, is getting long in the tooth. It looks fabulously good for its age, which strongly suggests the owner didn't really like it that much, not enough to actually get in and, you know, drive it.

And it has T-tops. KITT had T-tops, and I don't want to emulate that in any way, shape or form.

And the price is insane. I can get a five-year old Civic for that, why would I bother with the Volare clone?
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mechimike
06/04/09

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I was born in 1977, and this is the second '77 MY NPOCP this week. It must be my year! While I voted full-on crack for the Monte Carlo, however, I gotta go Nice Price here. 8 track? vinyl roof AND T's? And a malaise-tastic 318, practically begging for a set of 360 heads, a barrel edelbrock setup and some nice dual exhausts? For under $6K total you'd have a decently-performing ride, stiffen up the suspension a bit and the handling wouldn't be too terrible. Man, I'd rock that. I'd rock that to work and back and down to the senior center for Bingo on Saturday night. I'd blast my American Grafitti 8-track the whole time. And I'm only 31.
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engineerd
06/04/09

@mechimike: Awesome. Just awesome.
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acarr260
06/04/09

@mechimike: Also a '77 vintage myself, I have to agree that the combo of t-tops and vinyl is great - the 8-track player is just gravy.
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danio3834
06/04/09

@mechimike: 360 heads on that 318 would make it even more of a dog. It needs the whole 360 with ported j-heads and a hot purple shaft.
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Novaload
06/04/09

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A car like this does not belong in a town called "Plain"--and yes, dammit, I said "nice price"--where else are you going to get craziness like a padded vinyl roof + T-tops for 5 large? Only MoPar could give you a dreamboat like this.

Go dig out that 8 track tape box, glue on your 'stache, find your stash, get your boots+jeans+Who t-shirt and rock on!
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.357
06/04/09

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Crack Pipe. I'm not even going explain. I don't think I really need to. So just believe me on this one.
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.357
06/04/09

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Ass-pen describes the city in Colorado very well. I can't understand why anyone would go there when you can go to Whistler BC. Honestly, it was full of orange faced WAGs, not skiing, but sittng in Dolce & Gabana buying $20,000 tennis bracelets. If you want to ski/snowboard go to Whistler. While there is a Gucci "boutique" and the occasional WAG, it's pretty good, and in Canada, so double good.
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