So this is the official horror movies car that always refuses to start.

I think you need to sign on with Rockstar and have your own in-game Radio/TV show in GTA.

I showed this to my dad because he had a 1970something Dart, and he said, "That looks like what we had!" then you mentioned the Slant 6, and he went, "That's what we had." Then you mentioned Vapor Lock, and he said, excitedly again, "That's what we had!" Thank you.

"The Dodge Aspen makes arriving a victory." genius

You should make more creepy phone calls to automotive personalities. Put one in every video

I had a 77 Volare, the trunk was so rusted out that I lost a full sized spare tire threw the gapping rust hole.

"This is a 1980 Dodge Aspen." _CLUNK_ "OOOOHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

I just found these, these reviews are fucking insane, and they keep getting better and better. Some of this stuff is just fucking brilliant.

That phone conversation with Patrick George was gold.

How Patrick George kept a straight face for that long is a modern mystery.

One finger steering, so your 12 year old could be your designated from the local sketchy bar.

The slant-six is the engine for the apocalypse, nothing can stop that old beast. If you are one of the types that wants to get a car to keep in storage at a secluded location in the middle of the forest, just in case society collapses, get a Chrysler with a slant six, if you can manage it, one with the manual transmission. a close contender would be the AMC straight 6 four liter.

The "Every cop stake out in 80's-90's gangster movies" car.

Don't knock the Slantsix. It may be weird, but it always starts. It will always get you home. The trick to starting it is to pump the gas pedal 12 times and then hold it to the floor. Keep it held down when it catches until you have all cylinders. It'll drive like it has a governor until it warms up. I've gotten a slantsix to start at 40 below without being plugged in. They're amazing and also have absolutely no power. They always start.

I remember hearing tales of the Slant 6's legendary durability.. such that when they were doing infomercials in the 90s at 2am for some miracle oil additive that was so good you could drain all the oil out of it and dump sand on the valves and it would keep running because this additive was AMAZING... GUESS WHAT ENGINE IT WAS!?..

This is how Top Gear USA should be like.

My brother bought a '76 Volare from an estate sale. 48,000 miles on the clock and damn near everything was original. AM radio with a single speaker in the dashboard. No slant-six, this had a proper 318. Car rode like it was on a cloud and I can assure you the steering effort really was a one finger job. We wound up destroying the 7.25 rear-end from too many burnouts. Twice.

You can't just get into that car and not check the back seat for an Italian man with a length of wire.

Both my vehicles have AM only radios. You get caught up on your talk radio in rural areas like the one I live in lol

I had a 79 Volare with a slant 6. It didn't have enough power to pull a greasy string out of a cat's ass, but the engine way out lasted the car.

This mopar is best mopar

the one side view mirror on the dodge aspen reminds me of that bathroom mirror that girls use to pluck their facial hairs

Sure the /6 has problems, but I would argue no modern engine comes close to the burtality that engine could endure. I had a truck with a /6 that hadn't moved in ages I pulled it out of the field it was sitting in and drove it almost like a daily. The only major parts I had to change were the carb, replacing it with the same carb re manufactured, and a starter. The beast was bullet proof. Also, due to its compactness and the fact every car that had a /6 had a V8 option, you had massive amounts of clearance to work on that engine in the event anything did every need to be repaired. I love the /6 despite its flaws and eccentricity.

I laughed at the AM radio. Those went on longer than you'd think. My parents' '89 Ford Aerostar had an AM radio.

I just love how Patrick is doing everything he can to not burst out laughing. He did something I never could.

The 1976 Aspen was Motor Trend's Car of the Year. The engine was fine. About 100HP on a good day. But my dad must have gone through four starter motors. Oh, and in the base 1976 Aspen, a radio was an option (forget the base AM).

Best line in here: "This car makes ARRIVING a victory"

Slant 6 was truly bulletproof, especially the pre emission versions had some good torque, but your point about vapor lock, hell yeah, I remember flooring my 75 Dart on a warm day after sitting to get it started, also it hated wet days, take your foot off the gas, stall!

Guys. I seriously can't make it through my Monday morning without you.

what the fuck was that phone call

Had a 1980 Aspen with 318. Was a police car then a taxi. Bought for $350 at an auction in 1987. Never lost a race versus any car in high school. Great car. Only problem was rubber fuel hose would kink when hot and would not start until it cooled. So my dad put in a metal fuel line. Miss it much

I have a Smith and Wesson mountain bike. Oh the shame....

i had a 79 Volare with the 225 6 "Super Six"and it was loaded, AC,cruise,power windows and the 3.08 axle with tow package (it had a reese hitch)....it had over 300,000 miles when i bought it in 2000...i put 175 miles a day on it, 5 days a week for 4 years and all i did was change oil,tires and brake pads and a set of plugs 1 time. I sold it at almost 510,000 miles for 750 dollars,which is what i paid for it, in 2005..still ran fine. It never "vapor locked" because it was the 2bbl "super six"...it even got about 30 mpg highway. These were good cars if you did your maintenance. They still can be

80hp I think you're being generous.

I learned to drive on an older wagon model of the same generation. Solid car. Parents paid $500 for it in 1992 and was in great shape. Kept it two years without issue. Then sold it to some one else.

By the late '90's, my dad's 1980 Plymouth Volare was nearly 20 years old and had well over 400,000 km's on it and it was STILL running on the original engine and transmission without any mechanical failures. The only parts he replaced on that car was the starter solenoid, and he installed a new set of leaf springs and did some front end work in the tie rods and ball joints.

i cannot get enough of those first 5 seconds

The trade school I attend has 2 Slant 6 Rams, As Demo Cars for Automotive students.

Thank you Mr Regular. I just got a 1980 Dodge Aspen today, this review sealed the deal for me.

I had a 77 Aspen with the 318. It drove fine, even when on fire.

Just got home from work and i see this in my feed, perfect.

Say what you want this guys aspen is in a lot better condition than some people's cars that are less than ten years old, and the slant 6 will last longer. That's only if you manage to survive a crash in this thing...

I've been watching video for like 5 years... To this day nothing beats that curb hit into. Legendary

Loved it!!! When I was a little kid my grandmother use to have a Dark Green 2 door 76 Aspen with Lite Baby Shit Green interior. We took on a cross country trip to Walt Disney World in 1985 and it over heated on us the way home. Then my mother tried to cool it down by emptying the ice chest on the engine... Unfortunately all she did was completely put it out of its misery while leaving us stranded hundreds of miles from home... What a mess...

Making Mondays more tolerable since, uh, some point about two years ago. I think.

This is one of my personal favorites...I love when you do vintage "driver" cars...especially as an owner of a vintage "driver". Meaning an OLD car that is being driven, not an old car that is a classic :)

Thank you! I almost forgot that Chrysler’s used to be known to make the best power steering pumps in the world

Whenewer i see one of your videos anywhere on youtube, i end up binge watching RegularCars for hours :)

hey... you said Volaré wrong.

Review the Cavalier. A 1990's one. I would die happy

My dad drove one of these in the early 80's when I was a wee lad. I remember we road tripped it to Disney Land. My dad said it had over 200000 miles when it died...

My cousin and I one night had one of those going literally, literally 100 mph down a dirt road, ran the stop sign where it intersected a highway. Did a dukes of hazzard launch over the highway and also cleared the railroad tracks that ran parallel to the highway. We were thrown up into the roof since we had no seat belts on. No damage to the car whatsoever. That was in 1993. The highway at that time was a 2 lane but has since been widened into a 4 lane.

One of the best episodes ever. You sure made Pittsburgh look nice. I know, I live here.

I started my automotive apprenticeship in 1985 and replaced many differentials in these cars and other similar Dodge vehicles. I think the differential internals were biodegradable.

Why oh why, have I spent years on the interwebs and have never across this feast for the senses. By the Lord's of Light, I salute you funny car man, I salute you.

Patrick George’s face and silence during the whole thing is the best part

Mr Regular, the Slant 6 is the PERFECT RCR engine. You really missed the boat on this one. C'mon. Made from 1960-1989 with almost no changes. Designed to be cast in aluminum but cast in steel instead. Slanted engine means longer intake runners which means more torque. Heated carb means better mileage. Undisputed "most reliable engine ever made" champion of ALL TIME! How could you miss that?!? Check out your own BMW M3 video and look at that engine - notice any similarities?

It's the Ultimate Generic Car. I have never seen anything more bland.

The slant six had a few design flaws for sure. But a few cheap upgrades and you have yourself a great motor. A few more and you're cranking out 300hp.

I've never seen the slant 6, a legendary engine in its own right so brutally eviscerated

That Patrick George cameo! :D

"The Dodge Aspen is for a man who's seen some things and he sips Boilo while coasting along Route 78 on a desperate journey to forget"

It's April 2016 and I just discovered this brilliant channel!

How nice to see one of them again. In 1980 Peru purchased that car for Police use. My dad being involved with the actual government at the Ministry of Security, he had a Dodge Aspen assigned for him. Cars like Dodge Aspen were a novelty in these days as our market had been closed for foreign cars for long time. Thank you for bringing me back to childhood days riding in what then was my dad's assigned car.

had a 1976 Dodge Aspen 4 door sedan with the 225 slant six with auto trans and the engine outlasted its rustbucket body.

Some how the Aspen is still one of my favourite cars you've reviewed. I just love the generic car shape it has. It's like Chrysler came out of the 60's forgetting it's stylish pasts and hadn't hit the brand awareness of the 1980s yet. Such Nondescript design could be celebrated in this day and age.

Woah! Washington's Landing! I knew you'd end up in Pittsburgh at some point during my marathon of all of your videos, but I didn't expect it would be that close to home and that I would recognize it too. I rowed for Three Rivers in high school.

Dude, I'm watching like 10 of this reviews a day!

God that intro and I'm already busting a gut.

I'd have one! I think it looks pretty cool.

This video caught my interest because my mom had a 1977 Dodge Aspen station wagon and my dad had a 1978 Volare. The Aspen would do the vapor lock carburetor thing you described in the video when the engine was shut off. Both cars had fake leather interior that was super hot to get into on a sunny summer day.

oh my gosh I remember this review coming out like it was yesterday

The ford 300 cubic inch i6 in its carbureted version has intake and exhaust on the same side and doesn't have any of those problems and everyone loves that engine The only thing is that's a truck engine

Aspen didnt fail. It was poorly built its first year 1975 but it was a volume seller for 5 years.

My first car was a 1979 Plymouth Volare. Keep doing the lords work. #godspeed

In every old movie with a car chase where a hubcap goes knifing off into the middle background, this is the car the cops in the chase slam into when overshooting a turn the main character cleverly makes at the last minute

It looks great, like some random car from 70s action movie. Too bad its so shitty under the hood...

You guys need to do a Saab Sonett!

My family had a Dodge Aspen that my dad described as "buzzard puke green". It had no AC and the plastic seats were torture if it sat in the sun for any length of time, so of course we used it for summer road trips. Dad made us pat the dashboard and say "Nice car. Good car." in the hopes that it would listen and not break down on us 200 miles from home. When we managed to coast over the 200k mile mark we had to stop, get out and take a picture to commemorate the occasion. "This car makes arriving a victory." Could not have said it more perfectly.

This was my first car. Albeit in the two-door incarnation. The Holley 1945 carb - primitive even in 1980. Rebuilt that. "Electronic ignition" that consisted of a power transistor, some supporting circuitry, and a point-less distributor. Replaced that. The one benefit of the slant-6 was that replacing the starter motor was easy as hell because it was right there in the open on the mostly empty driver's side of the engine bay. Replaced that, too. Bimetal coil choke thermostat on the antiquated carb - replaced that. Oil pressure switch that would fail and leak lots of oil onto the tarmac - yup, replaced that too. And the body rust... the body rust. Water got into everywhere and ate it like cancer. Torqueflite A904 three-speed - chewed a clutch pack and the torque converter's transmission shaft collar sheared. So that was a replacement with a rebuilt. The exhaust would fall out about every 6 months, requiring a new patch since I never had the cash to replace the whole mess. Radiator blew. Replaced that to find that the car wouldn't warm up and the previous owner had removed the thermostat because the clogged radiator was causing it to overheat. And yet, I have a certain fondness to this day for that car. It taught me how to wrench, how to bodge repairs I couldn't afford to fix right away, and how to curse with a ferocity that will peel paint.

What a lovely piece of crap.

Damn! Nice new rendition of Angie in the end.

My first car was an 1980 Plymouth Volare with a slant 6. I loved this car. Miss it

This car was featured in Kummeli: Kultakuume ( Finnish comedy film) which to me at least is the legacy of the Dodge aspen

As someone that owns a 2013 Dodge Dart, it is definitely not a small car. Chrysler wants to call it a small car, but it isn't. It's just about as roomy inside as the 2008 Chevy Malibu that my girlfriend's dad has. And it is a bit of a porker at 3200lbs. I couldn't live with a Ford interior or a non-Uconnect infotainment system, so the Dart was it for me. At least it's a pretty entertaining drive, and the exhaust note is really great (1.4 turbo). Helps to lessen the sting of catastrophic depreciation. I don't know if Dodge will get a really small car? I would think Fiat wants people to buy the 500. I don't know if they'll want people to have to choose between the 500 and a small Dodge. Maybe they could get away with a 4-door version of the 500 that isn't the 500L?

DAT TOILET SCENE DOE

Hey, I have a 1978 Volare and love the crap out of it! Similar colors to this Aspen, love the video. Can't understand why people can't pronounce the name.C'mon Mr Regular, you're an educated man, everybody listen to Dean Martin' s rendition of "Nil pinto di blu" you'll never get the pronunciation wrong again! Tjanks again for the review!

This brought back memories of my high school car; a 1980 Chrysler Cordoba. That one-finger steering is classic!

Mr. Regular: No one, NO ONE want's a small car that isn't a Honda Civic. Buyers want Trucks, SUVs and CUVs. The market has spoken.

Trevor Philips is pretty particular about his cars.

The first RCR video I ever watched. Been hooked ever since.

The Aspen recalls forgotten episodes of Cagney & Lacey or Hill Street blues or some such that don’t inspire the same joy or fondness when experienced anew and are probably best remembered nostalgically.

This is one of those cars that you can still get on Craigslist for $300 running and driving -_-

it isnt a mid 1970s design...it is late 1960s design....no different from the 1967-69 Dart or Valiant

Spot on! I totally relate! My little brother bought a 15 year old Aspen. We loved it!

Completely accurate! Had a 1981 Dodge Diplomat, basically the same car, impossible to start, top speed maybe 80 mph with a tail wind, rusted away at 86,000 miles....but it was a big, cool boat.

Try to make a 1979-81 trans am video review and also this car is less annoying then a honda civic.

"The Aspen is motorized Merv Griffin special that runs off of 87 hooker spit." L-O-L

20 mpg is a generous assessment. Had an Aspen in high school. Although it had its misgivings, it was legend.

I had a 78 Aspen. that was really good car. The slant 6 was a die-hard engine. It had a limited slip rear end and I used to go trail riding with it. Great traction, plowed through the snow.