How many of you drive you cars daily?

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Any daily drivers out there? Commute cars? One and only way of transportation? Mine comes out weekly, but not in rain or snow.

Sorry, I meant YOUR.....
 

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Back when my car was a slant I would go months at a time without driving anything besides my dart every day. It was the only car I had for one long hot summer. Now that it's got a really thirsty small block and I live at an apartment not so much. I try to get back to my parents to drive it at least once a week. I have a lot of respect for guys driving their cars every day. It's not easy.
 
Unless I gotta haul something with the truck, I'm rockin' the rat! That might change when I'm done with my gasser conversion. Not sure how street able a HyperPak 170ci with a 4spd will be...

 
When I had my 65 valiant beater with blankets for seat covers and house carpet on the floor, I paid $600 for it and cost $600 to put it on the road and drove it 7 years without any maintenance or any break downs summer winter. Even though it was a **** box I didn't like driving it in the winter but Funny thing people would give me **** for driving in the winter but I point out their the one that drives a $30-80 thousands dollar cars and I was only driving a $1000 one .

When I get my Cuda on the road I plan on driving almost everyday splitting drive between that and my 80 Bronco
Except winters.
 
Daily drive my '74 Dodge D100 everywhere. Rain or snow or blazing heat, driving in a Mopar can't be beat! 8)
 
I did in good weather until I tore it down for paint. Will again, assuming I live that long.
 
i use to but i have money now so my car is has become a project. when i got it it had 47k miles and ive bumped it up to 68k driving 40 miles both ways to school for a few years.
 
Mine is a daily driver. I drive it 24 miles a day. That not counting what it takes to get to work. I ride with someone for that. But like this week, I'll drive it the extra 74 mile round trip.Sun, rain or Missouri snow. And it does really good in the white stuff too.
 

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All of our cars (except the Duster which is a drag car) are daily drivers. - They've been out in the snow this winter. If it's really nasty out, we'll drive our pickup truck or Sebring convertible though.
 

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/6 Matt said:
My darts my only mode of transportation. It's not as hard as folks say it is.
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Woah! Careful Matt! We can't be driving our 40 year old crap boxes around daily! They are way too unreliable to drive daily or even be trusted to make it to the local hot dog stand. What if it breaks?! I don't have my ASE so I don't know which way I turn a bolt to tighten it! Best just shove em in the garage, trailer them as much as possible and put about 40 miles on them before we die, I figure that's a half a mile a year which is more than plenty. :toothy10:

If I ever become like that, I expect a "draw straws for who puts the poor guy down like old yeller" thread from you guys.
 
I'll usually drive mine a couple days a week.. .but with a round trip to/from work of close to 50 miles... and the car only getting 8mpg... it's not cheap. I'm better off driving my '12 Mustang that gets 22 mpg around town.
 
I usually drive mine daily in the summertime and only on nice days in winter since I have no working wipers but getting that fixed this week ..Luckily my job is 1/2 mile from me lol when I had a 360 in my first car I drove it through 2 years of high school til about 09 when I decided to tear it down
No I currently have 2 dusters
One project in garage (autocross car)
One project /daily (410 w4speed 3:23 rear) in my 8 years of driving never owned a car newer than a 74 lol
 
I sold my 1969 440 six pack Super Bee to a buddy of mine about 30 years ago. He restored it and has almost never driven it since. It could use a fresh makeover again. It seems to me to be a shame he hasn't allowed himself to enjoy it more. Even sitting in his shed, it deteriorates.
 
Mine started out as a daily driver back in 1981 and even got driven one Indiana winter but only one.

1st picture is how it looked in 1981 when I bought it for $800 and it's a real 340 swinger.

2nd picture-Since I had it painted b5 in 1989 it only gets cruised around and if it's parked it's in my garage or I am very close by. this is last summer
 

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1967 'cuda said:
I sold my 1969 440 six pack Super Bee to a buddy of mine about 30 years ago. He restored it and has almost never driven it since. It could use a fresh makeover again. It seems to me to be a shame he hasn't allowed himself to enjoy it more. Even sitting in his shed, it deteriorates.
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Some people just see a muscle car as an "I own it" thing. Kinda like a trophy. It's like having a footlong shlong and never using it.
 
Once the salt is off the roads until the snow flies, I drive my 66 Polara everyday rain or shine.
 
I try to drive mine to work every Friday, sometimes more, and I drive it on errands over the weeekend.

Turned 60,000 miles at the end of last year.

Had to pull over, get a pic and shed a tear.

However...that's what they're made for.


...and mine gets about the same MPG as my true daily driver.
 
My 03 Pontiac Montana van just crapped out on me, so I've been driving my 66 Valiant Wagon as a daily for the past couple of weeks since I picked it up. I drive 54 miles to work, she's been doing well! Had a couple nasty sys here in RI with snow, she sat those out!

I've decided that I'm getting the van fixed and sold and using the wagon, love driving it! Slant 6 is better on gas than the van or the wife's 05 Sebring.
 
/6 Matt said:
My darts my only mode of transportation. It's not as hard as folks say it is.
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Its hard for me to drive mine every day because it's just not as comfortable as my new car. When you have an eighty mile commute with heavy traffic you eventually will decide to drive the car with ac and a stereo and good mpg over the dart. Now if I was working my old job that was ten minutes down the street I would drive the dart. Maybe I'm getting old.
 
Nope, I like my creature comforts and not having to be tethered to a Torco gas pump.
 
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