Daily Driving An Antique Car

I changed the seal and it became my daily driver to work 50 miles a day round trip for a long time. Some years ago a brother in law gave me a 1969 VW Beetle with an Automatic Stick and a leaking converter seal.

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My passenger who had never ridden in an antique car shot this short video from my perspective while on California interstate 5 freeway after having lunch w.

Daily driving an antique car. The 900-horsepower daily driver Rain or shine Cedar Rapids Iowa resident Brian Havlik racks up thousands of miles each year in his dual-purpose 55 Chevy. Not exactly my daily driverbut almost as I drive my 365 GTB4 Daytona around 10000 kms per year. Here are just a few of my thoughts on driving an antique car on a daily basis.

I used to be dead set against the use of. Ideally a daily driver classic car would consist of many modern upgrades. Drive a really interesting old car in good condition - and people will stop look and engage you in conversation.

It is not impossible but it is also not for the faint of heart. Driving my BGT these many years has led me to the conclusion that there is nothing absolutely nothing that can happen to the car that is not worth fixing. One is a 4-door Jeep Cherokee Chief the other is a 2wd Jeep Comanche.

There is something to be said for crumple zones air bags safety belts etc. While the S2000 is known mainly as a great sports car it makes for a great daily too. Neither have airbags and to the best of my discernment the only form of modern crash protection is over the shoulder seatbelts.

My soon-to-be daily driver vintage car is a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda with a Big Block 383 shoe horned into the engine bay. Personally I dont have a problem with using an older car as an everyday driver. Driving a car that was built during the Nixon Administration sometimes leads to spending an unplanned weekend in a rural town waiving off mechanical advice from a casually racist biker in an.

Just wondering how many of you guys drive pre 75 cars as daily drivers. On the eve of my 76th birthday despite outrageously good health I realize that my chances of a stroke are at least equal to getting rear-ended in my BGT. I have two vehicles both from the year 1987.

It has a four-speed manual and a wheezing struggling 190-horsepower 57-liter V8. The best car in the world is the 1981 Chevrolet Corvette. Its a tough world out there right now.

That Honda reliability and great visibility mean an easy care-free drive to work plus the fun of driving one. Sometimes brand-new cars have major concerns like the recent Ford Focus RS and the worry about head gasket failures. As much as I love to drive my antique cars and I put almost 1000 miles on my EMF this spring I would NEVER use an antique car as a daily driver.

Here are three from far different points of the old-car-daily-driver spectrum. First sold in 1979 the Saab 900 was eventually replaced by the Saab 9-3 in 1999. Of course were not suggesting that all classic cars are suitable for the cut and thrust of modern traffic but we think that this selection would cut the mustard day-in day-out.

Classic car ownership doesnt have to mean spending all your free time wrenching or keeping multiple cars. These cars are reliable as daily drivers. Power Brakes 4-wheel disc brakes power steering overdrive transmission low rear gear and air conditioning.

The reward of driving something that nobody else is really using as a daily is enough for me. Hailing from Sweden the Saab 900 compact executive car combines reliability and safety to make a great option for a classic daily driver. Enthusiasts who love old cars as daily drivers come in all shapes and sizes.

Reason Im asking is a couple companies I might be working for are all based about 40-100 would only drive this every 2-3 days miles from where I want to live and was thinking about classic cars that could put up with this without me feeling bad about putting gobs of miles on them and would get semi decent milege. Its also even better than a convertible with a T. The reason driving it so often and long is the same as everybody elses driving any other classic carFeeling and senses smell V12 sound wooden.

WellI dont have any of that.

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