Jack Meoff
Mopar Maniac
I have a new one I will send in a PM. It has a bad word in it
LMAO!
Loved it! :blob1:
I have a new one I will send in a PM. It has a bad word in it
3200 Seems a little light in stock trim
http://www.automobile-catalog.com/car/1976/661850/dodge_aspen_rt_coupe_360_v-8_torqueflite.html
Even a K-car can be a muscle car....:toothy12:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBVGOLADcaA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zABEdxQo08U
For me, a "muscle Car" is defined as a car intended to be a high performance car, and has something to back that up mechanically (so tape stripes and graphics alone don't do it). The F body Road Runner does, whether the "no muscle cars were made after 1970" crowd agrees or not. In their day, the F body Road Runner was as fast as a Z28 Canaro or L82 Corvette, which are considered to be muscle cars.
The definition of muscle cars should be based on.performance, not the period if time the cars were built. Can anybody really argue that A Hellcat Challenger us NOT s muscle car? In a similar way, an F body Road Runner, being as fast as, or faster, than other muscle cars of the day, is a muscle car.
Uh oh..... smoke from my ears, glassy look in my eyes............ Fbody coupe with a Hellcat powerplant. I'm going to get nothing done for a week thinking about that. I need some rich ahole to wreck his hellcat, so I can take the heart from the cat. Hell, Joe put the new Gen Hemi in the blue Mirada.......it would only be the next level in the game. 707 hp Volare Coupe..... I am digging the sound of that. And just think how pissed off the world will be watching Volare tail lights get smaller. Call it the "F-ed Cat"
Uh oh..... smoke from my ears, glassy look in my eyes............ Fbody coupe with a Hellcat powerplant. I'm going to get nothing done for a week thinking about that. I need some rich ahole to wreck his hellcat, so I can take the heart from the cat. Hell, Joe put the new Gen Hemi in the blue Mirada.......it would only be the next level in the game. 707 hp Volare Coupe..... I am digging the sound of that. And just think how pissed off the world will be watching Volare tail lights get smaller. Call it the "F-ed Cat"
I always thought that was so cool. A Dodge truck quicker (and WAY better looking) than the "all mighty" Corvette right off the showroom floor. Classic!the fastest muscle car in 1978 wasn't even a car ! detroits fastest in 1978 dodge lil red express building cool trucks before trucks were cool
Lets do this again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Aspen
shows the base coupe at 3200. Add 100 lbs for a V8.
Allpar't article on the F body is here:
http://www.allpar.com/model/aspen.html
directly from that article:
"Weight: an empty F body weighed between 3200 and 3500 pounds, with the V8s being about 110 pounds heavier than the Sixes. The wagons weighed the most, and the coupes were the lightest. Generally, the 4 door was about 75 pounds heavier than the coupe, while the wagon was 200 pounds heavier than the 4 door."
I read that to be that a six cylinder F body coupe was 3200 lbs., the V8 at about 3310, fitting in exactly with the Wikipedia citation. I said about 100 lbs weight increase for the V8, Allpar says 110 llbs., I stand corrected. I don't know where you are weighing your cars, but I would be more inclined to believe that Allpar and Wikipedia than the other sites that have been pointed to, and logically it seems to fit (see my previous point about the shorter wheelbase in relation to weight, using the J body car as the starting point). The http://www.automobile-catalog.com/ca...rqueflite site has a ton of inaccuracies, from the 318 2V/BBL engine having 170 HP ( sounds suspiciously high), to the use of theoretical performance numbers. I think I will stick with the Wikipedia/Allpar numbers; while not always perfect, they have a much better feel for the cars than a European site (www.automobile-catalog.com is European) would.