Features Do you drive ur custom

Mine isn’t done as far as my vision of it being a Kustom, but we are driving it daily even as the driver’s ed car for my soon-to-be 16 year old son.

 

I when I first got my drove my 53 with the stock transmission and rear every day to work, and Worcester Mass, Englishtown NJ both of those trips are over 3 hours!
The car still and will always have the stock front suspension. Note Radio delete plate.

I have since upgraded to a rebuilt and hopped up 261, 57 Corvette 3 speed and a 57 Chev rear, but I wouldn't hesitate to make those trips in the cars current form.

I do plan to run the exhaust all the way out the back not because the straight pipes are too loud but because they drone on long trips.

Man that make me love Winston that much more.

 

when it is not raining I prefer to drive my hotrod and every year I make a few long distance roadtrips (0ver 10 hrs is what i consider long). more miles under me the better..

 

Two years later and we are still driving as regularly as we can. We have moved from periodically to monthly and most recently fortnightly. Just love the historical aspect this car has and in particular the period of Rod & Custom era it represents.

 

Built to be driven. I dont drive mine to work, not a good area. I dont leave the house in my t bucket if its raining, but im not against running it in the rain, and have many times. My unibody isnt abused much, but now and then its used as a truck and hauls things, as its so much lower than my f350 and easier to load into

 

I would really like to……some day.

 

I drive my three toys just about every warm weather month days. They're meant to be driven, not just looked at like a piece of art.

 

Built to drive.

 

Yup.. At WalMart - needed a battery for the Vette.

 

Thanks Mark. Many issues for my absence, including many, many computer problems.. Good to be back!

-Dave

 

During summer and vacation time I only use either my Buick 50 or my Chevy 54, cars dont die of a little rain, also got a trailer hitch on the Chevy witch is handy when buying stuff or haul trash.
Sometimes maybe once a week i drive it to work, its more fun going to work drivning a classic.
Been driving the Buick 2000 miles and Chevy 2500 miles so far, got maybe a month and a half left before winter storage.

 

I guess "stuff" happens when you use 'em.. Two years ago I backed into one of those elevated man-holes in an unfamiliar back lane. DANG! My buddy had me back on the road in less than a week!!




-Dave

 

What a eye catching car in an amazing colour.

Pure class !!!

 

All my cars are drivers, for me the cruising/shows and the fun of driving is the point of having hobby cars. The only car I trailered was my highboy roadster to the far away big shows, 100 mile trip was my limit of sitting in it, I did put 20K miles on in 8 years. I appreciate the car art high dollar stuff, enjoy looking at them, to each their own said the farmer as he hugged his cow. IMO, The diversity of the cars/people is what is so great about our car hobby.

 

I know what you mean. Not once but twice!

 

If you have a late model, licensed / insured / running, who can argue which you drive as a daily ? Does your collector policy restrict you to weekend days ?

 

As far as driving daily. I suspect a lot of "done" cars aren't so done. You can deal with little "non-working" things on a Saturday drive that you don't want to on a daily. Wipers, horn, turn signals, cooling issues, brakes-good enough? etc.....

 

Ouch Angel! Thanks for driving 'tho.. Way more fun than staring at it in the garage even with the risk of a fender being "adjusted" - right?

-Dave

 

Whenever I have an old car it is my daily. I just don't do modern cars. Why would I spend money on a modern car when I could have a cool old car.

 

Every chance I get! So far we've driven it from Georgia to the Grand Canyon, then we drove it to Fairmount Indiana a couple times, Maggie Valley, Tennessee and the list goes on.

 

I put 10,000 miles a year on my '50. live in the north east so I don't drive from the first time they salt the roads till the roads are dry again. no heat, no AC, good wipers, bias ply tires and comfortable to drive.

 

I drive my mercury a few days a week. I love driving it.

 

You're right about that! New speed bump got installed this spring on the route I take to the bank after work. Dang thing was nearly square, so despite creeping over it, the front tire dropped off the back side and smashed the cutout onto the top of the hump. :/




I'm quite a bit slower than your buddy Dave, but it's back straight and almost ready to paint now. But, Lead Ain't Dead is this weekend and it's done as far as it's going to get for now....back on the road. LOL

 

Well dang-it Doc.. I guess we just have to put up with this stuff if we are going to drive 'em. Speed bumps are a real issue with me - slows down only those of us who care about their rides; the rest just whiz over them like they aren't there. So how do they help?? Our city seems to have fallen in love with the damn things lately as well.. Oh well, back to the streets we go regardless!

-Dave

 

Needed gas this morning while running errands and bumped into my buddy John Wilkes doing the same in his '38 Dodge pickup:


-Dave

 

Fresh pic from today, it´s friday so i took my Chevy to work, and also did some shopping on my way home