Poll - How far away from home do you drive your classic?
I never understood why so many guys are scared to drive their classic car. As long as you put it together right you are good to go. These cars used to drive all over when new and probably less maintained back in the day.
Because some of us have had bad experiences. You claim we can pull into a parts store and replace stuff, no problem. (In another post) explaining what an ecu is to the typical counter person is joke more than a challenge.
I have had bad voltage regulators which burned up coils, c & constantly replaced Chinese 4 prong ballast resistors on my first few mopars. Driving around with your 19 year old buddy in the hot south and waiting for 3 hours for a tow? The wiring connections from the alternator loose enough to swing to discharge from charge, wrong pulleys misaligned belts that blow off when the clutch is engaged; inefficient radiators + cast pistons + slow traffic or really fast traffic, bad gas tanks... There’s hundreds of things that can go wrong and some of us are not ten minutes from civilization.
I checked, double checked, test drove my road runner-and STILL lost my running lights 500 miles into an 1130 mile move.
Probably unlike you, my dad didn’t know more than that plugs and I had to learn on my own.-much through you guys and few friends from the previous generation to me.
I should have enjoyed that cruise, but have had too many previous problems, on my current budget and timeline, I couldn’t afford a single hiccup.
The power tour has a dedicated GM repair trailer, with hundreds of people that help out.-people have been known to pull up, extinguish a fire, check on the driver/passenger and disappear with taking credit for the save. The power tour is the safest drive to reference, not grueling with a ‘parachute.’
Abodyjoe I wonder if you ever started with a low budget project car and had problems.
