Muscle car/Classic car for daily driver??????

[EZ Nova]

Originally Posted by L78_Nova

I fry the tires on my (Fake) 68 Acadian SS with 350 / 200R4 / 4:11 12 bolt / factory AC
pretty regular all summer... not always in the rain though.


People love the sun baked California paint ! everyone wants to buy it.... for $3000, NOT!!

Will $4850.00 take it off your hands????

LOL, sorry had too. I think since I should work for a bit longer in life, might as well enjoy it some. Insurance will be a bit my then my Ram 1500, but who cares. I have a few thoughts and some people have some valid points like ride, bumper and less "safety" stuff.

[L78_Nova]

Originally Posted by EZ Nova

Will $4850.00 take it off your hands????

LOL, sorry had too. I think since I should work for a bit longer in life, might as well enjoy it some. Insurance will be a bit my then my Ram 1500, but who cares. I have a few thoughts and some people have some valid points like ride, bumper and less "safety" stuff.

No Worries always good for a laugh.


Fun Factor FAR exceed the insurance bite and the hit for premium fuel... as the 350 is now 11 to 1 with 87 corvette 58cc aluminum heads


my other cars are painted too nicely to park at work... door bashers.

[x33rs]

Agree, however insurance is actually cheaper for us, as well as registration. Guess it depends on where you live but here, if you own a new car, you are dinged the value of the car for tags every year, and insurance is nuts. For instance a basic $50k new car can be as much as several hundred dollars a year for license plates. The DMV doesn't put much value on classics so tags are $30.

The other advantage for us is that maintenance on the classics is so much cheaper than a new car. Tires are half the price, shucks just parts in general are half the price, lol. No car payments. All the money saved easily pays for the premium fuel. And with proper tuning these cars are very respectable on mileage.

Not to mention it was actually my wife that was tired of all the creature comforts and electronic controls, and she especially doesn't like some of the safety features that seem to be getting more and more excessive. She's not a fan of air bags at all, and I definitely don't want a car with lane correction or one that hits the brakes on it's own. No thanks.

It was a lot of these reasons that made the decision much easier for us. Plus we live in a climate that allows year round driving. The other bright side is that I'm always looking for a reason to go somewhere It's highly unlikely we'll be buying any type of new vehicle for the rest of our lives.

[EZ Nova]

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Ya your one of the lucky one's, EXCEPT this year for year round weather. Parents have a place in Mesa and been going since 2000. Stay usually Oct till April. Dad got a brain tumor in '14 and kept saying he wanted to go back to Az. Didn't go in '15 but back in '16, '17 and passed away there in January '18. We know about the lic and insurance on the new car stuff. too. Cheaper to ship a car there AND BACK then to do that the lic and insure a new car.

Back about 2008. Dad tried to buy a '55 T-bird for his Az car. Seen one at BJ action. BUT he didn't have his bank stuff so he said just swipe the card for 200K. They wouldn't do it.

[x33rs]

Originally Posted by EZ Nova

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Ya your one of the lucky one's, EXCEPT this year for year round weather. Parents have a place in Mesa and been going since 2000. Stay usually Oct till April. Dad got a brain tumor in '14 and kept saying he wanted to go back to Az. Didn't go in '15 but back in '16, '17 and passed away there in January '18. We know about the lic and insurance on the new car stuff. too. Cheaper to ship a car there AND BACK then to do that the lic and insure a new car.

Back about 2008. Dad tried to buy a '55 T-bird for his Az car. Seen one at BJ action. BUT he didn't have his bank stuff so he said just swipe the card for 200K. They wouldn't do it.

Sorry to hear about your father. Sounds like he really liked it down here. We get a lot of seasonal sun bunnies. It was the weather here that talked us into making it our permanent home.

My parents did the same after a couple of visits. When they made the move, my fathers 2014 pickup was already going on 4 years old. Tags were still nearly $600 for it, on a 4 year old truck! He turned pail, I thought he was going to hit the floor, lol. What was even funnier is when they offer you to buy up to 5 years in advance. LOL

[tunes]

I've been driving this '70 Camino as a daily driver for the past 4 years and have a blast doing it. I added a 4-speed to make it more fun. There is always someone wanting to know what year it is, looking at it while buying gas, giving a thumbs-up or wanting to buy it. I really enjoy driving it. It's a little rough but looks good going down the road.