How many of you drive you cars daily?

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Looking for a replacement. I plan to daily drive as much as possible. Have a Duster drag car that is registered but it is a drag car. Have my eye on another a body. Its funny how in my family wife and two daughters they hate a bodies. Im planning on getting one just because.
 
I have 5 mopar muscle cars and if theres no snow and salt I am driving one every day..it's a bummer trying to figure out which one to drive every day..sometimes I screw up and drive the same car two days in a row,i also have a big bad 87 power ram 150 that I drive in the winter and constantly listen to people saying wow that's to nice a truck to be driving in the snow and salt gotta drive something in the winter up here in salty western ny
 
I have multiple appointments most every day to go to all over the county, and drive the Dart everywhere every day. (rain, snow, 100 degrees) it doesn't matter.
Going on two years now without a fail to run for any reason, so they can be very reliable if you put the attention into them.
We don't get salt on the roads here which makes a huge difference.
 

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My 63 Valiant was a DD for 5 years.Now driving a 79 Chrysler 300. Soon as I work out some electrical problems a 64 Dart will become the DD.There is just somethin' about driving a old MOPE.
 
To the OP, I live in NY so daily driving an A body isn't an option. In CA it could be done. Keep in mind that you risk damage to the car adn general wear and tear. I don't drive mine every day. It comes out at least once per week. I'd say I drive on average 50-100 miles a week. The reason I woudln't drive mine everyday is that I wouldn't park the car just anywhere and leave it. The other reason is fuel. 10-12mpg vs. 23-25mpg is a big deal.
 
It won't happen for me as I have a company truck to commute around in.
 
To drive my Road Runner or Scamp in the Pittsburgh winters would be sheer stupidity.
The roads are salted like you wouldn't believe, and the potholes are enormous. You guys in the warm southern and western states have it easy as far as salt/rust so yeah, I could see you guys driving your classic daily. And I respect that.
 
doogievlg said:
Its hard for me to drive mine every day because it's just not as comfortable as my new car.
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I find it hard to drive my Duster instead of my Stealth because invariably I'll be sitting at a light in my Duster and someone who thinks they have a fast car will pull up beside me. Then I wish I was in my Stealth.
 
Until I got my Duster going a few months back my only running car was my '72 Challenger, so it was doing daily driver duty- about 10k miles a year in all weather. No salt out here, but it does get driven in snow occasionally. I used it for pretty much everything.

Now with the Duster going I split time between the Chally and the Duster, probably will for a bit longer as I get the Duster all sorted out. Probably about 50/50 right now. Duster should have all the major work done here pretty quick, as soon as that's done it'll be my daily. :D

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My Neon suddenly broke a few years agao andI drove my '65 for a month and ahalf - mid october through early December... Snow, frost, you name it. It wasn't bad. Similar to driving the cars I drove in high school anyway...lol. In the warmer months when it was registered I'd drive it daily, sometimes even commute in it.
 
I drove a 68 Barracuda every day for 7 years.

After 500,000 miles the body finally started getting too rough to keep going...
 
The darts the only car i have...so yes it gets driven everyday...even today in the storms...
 
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