Jalopnik: Volare

Plymouth Volare Rolls On 24s, End Times Upon Us?

Murilee Martin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EDT

Those tiny 14" wheels that Chrysler put on the Volare? Pizza cutters! Shopping-cart wheels! Try adding another ten inches of diameter to a Volare's wheels and you'll finally fill up those unsightly wheelwells, as we can can see in this '76. You need to keep the air shocks fully inflated in order to keep rear wheel scrapage to almost-tolerable levels, and there appears to be about 3/4" of space between the fronts and the wheelwells... but just look at it! Thanks to LTDScott, Porcubimmer Pilot for the tip! [Craigslist Stockton, go here if ad disappears]

Where You Going, City Boy? 1978 Plymouth Volare Wagon

Murilee Martin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:30:00 EST

Could the '78 Plymouth Volaré station wagon really get 25 miles per gallon on the highway? And how about that "big-car comfort" mentioned in this ad? It might be tough to go from, say, a 1970 Chrysler Town & Country to one of these things, though at least you could get the Slant Six in a Volaré.

1977 Plymouth Volaré

Murilee Martin — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:30:43 EDT

Much as we car freaks might wish to pretend the Malaise Era never happened, we must face the reality that smog motors and rattletastic build quality were the hallmarks of Detroit products for quite a while. This '77 Volaré, spotted just down the street from the Ketchup und Mustard Transporter, is here to remind us of that reality.

This Volaré is beat, but it's still rolling decades after most of its brethren were sent to The Crusher. And that's something.

It always drove me crazy that the ads for this car pronounced its name "Vo-LAR-ay" (because of the song, of course), but the emblems on the car had the accent on the wrong letter. For this reason, I pronounce the name of this vehicle as "Vo-la-RAY."

This is an A-body car, of course, cousin to the Dart and Valiant.

That means that you can do all the hot-rod tricks to this car that you might do to a Dart... except that if you did such tricks in California you'd be unable to smog the car.

It's good to see that Chrysler was still slapping great big 60s-style Plymouth hood ornaments on this car, even as late as 1977.

This car has been modified with a not-very-securely-mounted third brake light (the power wires seem to be the only thing attaching it to the car). Like many Alameda cars, it probably never leaves the island, so it never exceeds the city speed limit of 25 and the light will stay in place just fine.

Mopar style!

Talk About Your Aspen/Volare Hi-Po Car!

Davey G. Johnson — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

We couldn't have Maximum Mopar Day without this, but it sort of frightens us that a site like this exists. Yes, kids, it's the Dodge Aspen R/T and Plymouth Volar Road Runner Web Forum. Yeah, sure, Stiv Bators drove one onscreen, but hell, there are people who believe Stiv even made death cool. And besides, Chrysler's reviving the Aspen name, so they can't be all bad, can they? YMMV.

The 1976-80 Dodge Aspen R/T and Plymouth Volar Road Runner Web Forum