who daily drives their classic ?

My Dart is my daily driver. Some people think I'm nuts. But here's the deal. I have less than $9k in it. My wife's car cost us $26k and it's a daily driver. I bought mine for a really good price, I did any mechanical work it needed and the interior. My bro-in-law is a retired body man so he helped me clean up the body and my neighbor threw paint on it for me. I did all the prep before hand. In our area, a good looking used car with fresh body and paint that runs really well is going to cost you over $10 unless you want a dull boring ride.

I drive those all day for work so this is like therapy at the end of the day to fire her up and make the drive home. Often I skip my exit and go the long route. I'm glad guys have perfectly restored cars that don't get driven. They're beautiful and I love looking at them at shows but my preference is to drive mine. Mid-life crisis? Probably, and I can't afford that red sports car. Our kids are grown, we don't need the Dodge Caravan anymore, and the Stratus is at 202k miles on the clock so it's now the reserve back-up car for when one of the kid's car is in the shop or when I take mine down for a few days to do a project on it. It's work in progress - my hobby.

My advice is to keep the Jeep and keep looking until you find a real solid car for less money. That's what I did because I had a car already so I wasn't in a hurry. I looked about a year and a half and jumped on this one when I saw it. My Dart was literally an unmolested old lady car which she and her husband had bought new. No punk kid had been messing with it before. Her name was Gertrude Delma Bell and at 93 she sold it to a younger man. He drove it as is for a year and parked it hoping to restore it. In the mean time he had kids, lost his job, had kids, changed jobs- all that kind of life stuff so the car sat on non-op for 8 years.

From reading the posts it sounds like this one you're looking at might have been thrashed a bit. If you have doubts about it, keep looking. I bought mine rust and body work free and in perfect running condition for $3k. Go to my gallery and see how it looked. They're out there just don't rush into more work than you bargain for. As far as having a classic Dart as a driver? I wouldn't have it any other way. She even hauls bags of concrete home in the trunk from Lowes. Not so good with 10' sticks of PVC though...Truly a daily driver.