[js1138]

I had a '76 Volare and drove it 130,000 miles. Most of te sheet metal rusted through in the first year, and we don't have road salt. Somewhere along the way the floor rusted through for the back seat passengers.

But it ran ok after replacing the carb ($89) plus tax, plus an occasional replacement of some kind of resistor ($3.95), and a couple of starter motors.

The original carburator was junk. The replacement worked fine.

[I still care]

We replaced the carburator more than 3 times. From what I understand there was an engineering problem with them. We also had problems with the electrical system, the starter, and the coil. Those were the problems I had early in the cars life. It also rusted to death, slowly. I always liked the car though. I liked the little turning signals on the outside that faced you, and you could see them through your front window. Remember them?

[Nik Naym]

"But it ran ok after replacing the carb ($89) plus tax, plus an occasional replacement of some kind of resistor ($3.95), and a couple of starter motors. "

I had several friends who drove Chrysler products back in those days. Or should I say they drove them on the occasions when they would start. I can think of at least three people I know who used to keep more than one those ballast resistors in their gloveboxes as back-ups.

Detroit in general produced real garbage back in the 70s. Whenever somebody says "they don't build them like they used to" I always reply "And it's a good thing they don't!"