Dream Big: This 1979 Dodge Aspen Looks Like A Stock-Class Legend!


Dream Big: This 1979 Dodge Aspen Looks Like A Stock-Class Legend!

Not every street-legal dragstrip warrior is a ten-second monster that intimidates sport-utilities everywhere it goes. Some play a different numbers game, where dead-nuts consistency and easy predictability pay dividends over power. You can spot them a mile away at an event. In a field of Mustangs, Camaros, shoebox Chevies and other predictable selections, they’ll be in the small front-driver that is so consistent that it’s deadly. You’ll actually see guys in Chevelles falter at the tree because they don’t know what the underdog actually has ready for them.

So what does that have anything to do with a 1979 Dodge Aspen? Well, look at this logically for a second. This is a Slant Six powered sedan, so you have bulletproof power that can be tuned to do some decent work, and the transmission is the TorqueFlite automatic, a bastion of reliability so long as it wasn’t left in a lake for a year. The rest of the car is mostly the same as an A-body Dart…only the front suspension is a real deviation from the A-body, so the leaf springs and such will work. So will the stiffer A38 Aspen/AHB M-body cop parts and pieces. Weight is about 3200 pounds…not a lightweight but not bad either. 

So, let’s look at this realistically. You have an anvil of a powertrain, a fairly light chassis, and a clean example of a Dodge Aspen. Ok, that last part is a stretch for most people, but admit it, overall this one has fared much better than most of them. Add in the lettering and this F-body Dodge is ready to go out and wreak some hell in a bracket race. Or you can just cruise it around and enjoy it. Whatever floats your boat!

ebay Link: 1979 Dodge Aspen


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6 thoughts on “Dream Big: This 1979 Dodge Aspen Looks Like A Stock-Class Legend!

  1. RK - no relation

    I would totally drive this on the street. Straight six, automatic, four doors.

    It’s in nice condition and has everything I hated when it was new!

  2. tw

    Every dragstrip have its underdog killer , here at my local track there is an old man with a bone stock Ranger v6 automatic . Nobody wants to line up against in the eliminations rounds .

    1. Jeepinmike

      Lol… i use to swap my 31″ tires for 235/75 in the back of my 89 ranger with a slighly tweaked 2.9 and 5sp and go bracket race… it was slow but consistant. The announcer called it the wheel standing ranger becuase of the rake.

  3. Bill Greenwood

    Needs a 360. Cop plant. No catalytic converter so it’ll run on regular gas. Cop tires, cop brakes, cop shocks. If it was 106 miles to Chicago, and it had a half a tank of gas, I’d drive it there in the dark wearing my sunglasses.

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