How often do you drive your classic?

WHat do you think, should classics be preserved and just looked at or driven like they were designed to?

There is no use of having a classic, or any car for that matter, and not driving it. Like you said, they were designed to be driven. Even if you have a very rare and expensive vehicle, it needs to be driven sometimes. I can't say how much I drive my classic because it is being restored right now, and also, it will only be driven in the summer. But I voted weekly because hopefully that is how much I will be driving it when the restoration is completed.

Definitly driven, and as hard as you can without risking a total write off, but even thats not that bad. One of the people who I was most impressed with were the two guys from NZ who brought their like 1930's Alfa spyder here for Targa Newfoundland. It's one of I think only 3 in the world and it's worth around $1,000,000. And yet they brought it half way around the globe to race it on public, and very unkept rural roads.

Now thats passion.

My mechanic owns a 1933 Aston Martin Le Mans Long chasis, of which only 15 were ever built and 8 are know to be still arround, and he drives it almost daily, and not like an old lady if you know what I mean. Whenever I go for lunch with the guy in the aston i cant hide the grin of my face!:D

I drove my '69 Camaro every day (it was my only car) until I had to sell it because I couldn't afford to fix it anymore. It's the price you pay, but it's definitely worth it. I will never own a trailer/garage queen. When I get my hands on a '68 Roadrunner, I'll be doing the restoration myself (no man lets another rebuild his car), and I'll most likely sell my current driver to finish it. Fix shit when it breaks, and drive your cars till they fall apart.

Automobiles were never meant to rot in garages or museums, especially not fast ones.

Originally posted by Kobal
I drove my '69 Camaro every day (it was my only car) until I had to sell it because I couldn't afford to fix it anymore. It's the price you pay, but it's definitely worth it. I will never own a trailer/garage queen. When I get my hands on a '68 Roadrunner, I'll be doing the restoration myself (no man lets another rebuild his car), and I'll most likely sell my current driver to finish it. Fix shit when it breaks, and drive your cars till they fall apart.

Automobiles were never meant to rot in garages or museums, especially not fast ones.

TRUE DAT:bigthumb:

Just because something is old, doesn't mean it should be preserved in pristine condition for " Monetary or postarity reasons".

I bought a decent condition 1966 Landau Thunderbird with the shear intent of stripping it of all the crap, re doing it as a hot rod.

There was 37,000 + 1966 TOWN LANDAU thunderbirds made.

In a sea of medicracy and "nice" vintige cars that are all squeaky clean and "showroom" , I want one to standout.

Polish Chrome? ......... not in my future. Some people are so anal about Bling Bling under the hood, that they forget to Drive the cars and they simply are " Garage Furnature."

nope. Road dirt, grime and the sound of the wind snapping on my shirtsleeve... thats what is Nostalgic about Classic Cars.......


Seeing them on the road as a rarity among Honda Accords, Pimped out Rice wagons, and Chevy Cavaliers.... etc etc.


Presently, its weekly, or sparaticly fer a few days at a time.


Daily fer me once restoration is done this summer ;)

but living in Northeast, it gets stored in November till April unless there is a nice day and I want to ride around on clean NON salted roads fer an hour or so.

i put 150+ miles a day on my car and it had 361k on the stock engine. (still using the stock head) only maintenace was tune-eps and oil changes. no rebuild. i love it. but now moved on to performance.

i drive my falcon just about every day. i also drive crosscountry and back and pull a small trailer as well. cars were built to be driven, and while some people like garage or trailer queens, i dont. i also am of the opinion that if you dont like something out of the box, modify it. there are very few cars that i would not modify. check my sig and you will find two classic cars, and one 80's car. nothing new.

I drive my '69 VW Bug every day, and the 35-year old motor runs like a champ, although it could use a new (much larger) one in the future.

Every day pretty much from April 1 to September 21st. 1968 Firebird 350HO, its fun :) When I'm done with putting an OD tranny in and my 400 build it will be even more fun. Its just an experiance to drive one of these cars. You get waves from people, the head nod. Not to mention the sound. Mmmmm, I think I'm going to go for a drive.