Punishment - The Story of my 1979 Plymouth Volare 

The UPS executive's Volare would have had the V8.....😎

Yep, that's it! I remember buying a can of touch up paint from Albert Kemperle. I wished it had a 318 because the leaning tower of power wasn't too happy pushing this brick around and that lockup torque converter would mercilessly engage at like 30mph. I drove it in 2nd a lot just to keep it out of mechanical lockup. My buddy in college had a 76 Volare with a built 318 and Mopar Rallyes (the rears were bigger than the fronts). It had a tough stance won its share of street fights. 😎 Thanks GP!

@@LongIslandMopars My friend also had a 1978 Volare 225 "LTP" Super Six he bought in 1994 and junked in 1996. It ran perfect, but it was rough on the body end. He offered it to me in 1996, but I had an '84 Delta 88 (still have it but "retired") that my uncle gave me, so I passed on it. It ran great, and we did some repairs to it. The junkyard owner was like "You sure you want to junk this, son?" to my friend. At that point, he lived upstate and was married. We're still friends, he's not married anymore. He's a great friend that I met as an undergraduate in college and we bonded over fixing cars and DIY. About twelve years ago, he gave me a Craftsman tool set and said, "I'm out of the car repair business, use them in good health". I still have that set.

@@googleusergp Cool story GP. I'm still friends with my buddy that had the hotrod Volare. We lived about 3 miles away from each other in Queens and now live about the same distance away here on Long Island. We junked his Volare back in the day because of body rot but transplanted the drivetrain into a 71 Challenger that he picked up for cheap (back when you could do that). Had a mint body and interior but a bad engine. That car had taller gears than the Volare and we made use of them. 😎. Thanks GP!

@landMopars About a month ago, my friend called me (same guy) and he said that his 2015 WRX wouldn't start. He said he blew a fuse while using a handheld vacuum and even after replacing it, he couldn't get it to start. I said, "My cousin in law is giving me a haircut this afternoon, I'll come over after that, but let me hear this again?" We got talking and I was doing research and I'm looking up the OEM diagrams for the vehicle, and as we're talking on the phone, I said, "I know what you did. The "spare" fuse you used isn't a "spare". It's for the starter circuit. That's why it doesn't start". He said, "Son of a...let me call you back". Two minutes later, my house phone rings and it's my friend, "You crafty SOB, you hear this thing running in the background? Come over after your haircut, I owe you lunch". Sure enough, the one power port is only 10A. The other one is 20A and that's what he should have used.... I said, "If you're going to buy me lunch for "fixing" your car, no way. But if you want to go to lunch to shoot the breeze like we do as friends, I'll see you at 3." LOL.

@@googleusergp Great stuff, GP. It's all about helping one another. At the end of a day, all we got are the memories of what transpired earlier. Make the most of those memories.

It was decent looking. In the last photo you can see where the drivers side rear quarter was rumpled. In typical Chrysler fashion, it stalled in the middle of a street and an unlicensed kid in a Toyota Corolla t-boned it. I hammered it out with my dad and got a junkyard trim molding (it had green vinyl as opposed to beige that was on the car). The 79 4-door was a real dog when compared to our 77 coupe. Same engine but the 79 had a mechanical lockup torque converter that would sap all power once it shifted into 3rd. I used to drive it in 2nd a lot. 😎

@@LongIslandMopars I had a lot 318 powered cars. It was a good balance of power and mpg. It was nice when you could actually find parts in the junkyard.

@@NathansMoparGarage The only V8 we had was dad's 273 in the Coronet and that was a compromise with mom because he wanted a white 66 Coronet 440 with a slant 6 while mom wanted the turquoise Coronet 500 with a "V8" for safety and longevity. 😎. We had 3 Slants; the two Volares and a 64 Valiant convertible. Dad loved the sixes for their mpg and simplicity.

@landMopars We had Chrysler products through 1979 in our family. The last "modern" Chrysler was our 1974 Charger that we sold in 1979 during the gas crisis. By 1977, we started buying GM products and that continued until I bought a 2024 Corolla in late 2023. It wasn't the first Corolla that we had. We had two in 1980 and 1981, they were my dad's company cars. Back then he had access to a lot of cars, so various ones would come home with him over time. We had a '78 Grand Prix, an '80 LeSabre (my uncle bought that), a '79 Caprice (my grandfather got that), a 1979 Caprice wagon, an '82 Berlinetta, the two Corollas and a few others I might have forgotten. We had a 1941 Plymouth Deluxe from 1978 to 1988. After my father died, we gave it to my uncle (his brother.). My uncle had it painted and enjoyed it for years, giving it to his son. He had it for a few years and sold it. The owner of the local paper down there still has it we believe. It's gone from our family easily 25 years now. During a snow storm in Omaha, NE, it was one of the only cars my cousin had that started and got him to work. We called it "The General" since it was built like a war tank and a 1941 model year.

Sorry friend. It had A/C (radial compressor) and factory am/fm radio which I changed to a Radio Shack "Realistic" am/fm cassette. It did shine up well. Thanks for the comments!