Dodge Aspen. The conversation ender.

"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond) 05/22/2014 at 00:07 • Filed to: None

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Dodge had one last try before the K-car saved their over-salted nastybacon. Built to be affordable and efficient it was thirsty and cheap! My dad had one as a company car and got 13mpg out of that 225 slant-6. Now the nameplate is re-animated into an SUV. All I can think of is this green P.O.S. I used to ride in as a kid.

During a business overnight, I was picked up at the airport by the hotel van, driven by a guy who happens to own one of the new shiny expensive leathered out Aspen Suv's. He said it's his favorite car and he's gonna keep it forever. I then told him about dad's late 70's aspen sedan as it was the old Dodge nameplate and how thirsty and crap it was and how on three different occasions it tried to kill us all because it was made so poorly in the day. His response:

"Mine's got a five point seven liter HEMI!" And he was all serious about it too.

Yeah...that makes total sense in the conversation about a shitty 70's malaisemobile. I realized that was it. He wasn't gettin' it and wouldn't. I wonder if I can get out of unwanted conversations like that-say something totally unrelated and mean it and move on as if I said the greatest thing...in the world.

GeorgeyBoy > Grindintosecond 05/21/2014 at 23:10

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Acting stupid is sometimes a smart thing to do.

Grindintosecond > GeorgeyBoy 05/21/2014 at 23:11

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He might have been the galctically smartest man.

GeorgeyBoy > Grindintosecond 05/21/2014 at 23:18

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He does have a Hemi..

Grindintosecond > GeorgeyBoy 05/21/2014 at 23:22

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*nods*

lone_liberal > Grindintosecond 05/22/2014 at 00:09

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My parents' first new car ever was a Dodge Aspen two door that looked kind of like the picture. It had the 318 and wasn't ugly at all. It was, however, the biggest piece of shit ever. The thing puked oil all over the engine compartment at random times which burned out things like the alternator and the dealership could never fix it.

Grindintosecond > lone_liberal 05/22/2014 at 00:14

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Yup. They had up to a 360 with 170hp...but at least 250 lbs torque! Yeah. Redeeming. I'm so glad the speed limits were 55mph at the time. I can't imagine how many people would be dead and on fire from things happening at 75.

Our aspen was replaced by an 83 Chevrolet Celebrity eurosport.

lone_liberal > Grindintosecond 05/22/2014 at 00:19

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My first driving lesson was in that crapcan. It makes it more challenging to learn when the brakes pull to one side or the other every time you push on the pedal.

bhardoin > Grindintosecond 05/22/2014 at 01:32

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Your parents had impeccable taste in autocoaches.