I noticed a couple "interesting" classics in the parking lot at work today

1) Buick Grand National
It's a true daily driver it might get left at home when it's snowing but it was out there all winter and the winters here in CT aren't that mild.

2) Ford Falcon (Mad Max style. Still stock, no blower or side pipes, but he does have the shield decal on the side)

The falcon stays home when the weather isn't good but I was seeing the majority of last summer.

Anyone have a classic they use as a daily driver? Even when I finish up restoring my old bug I doubt it will get daily use.

 

I used to drive my E-Type pretty much every day in all weather till I bought my MINI, now it's more occasional use....

 

My dad used to own a Buick Grand National, but this was about 10 years ago, so it was less of a classic, I guess. He and I put a lot of work into it redoing the suspension and brakes.

Around town I could swear I've seen a Toyota 2000GT tooling around in original condition. I've seen it only twice, both times on the same road. I always had some pressing matter to attend to, so I couldn't turn around and follow it.

 

That seems unlikely given the production numbers, but you never know. People who REALLY love cars drive them.

A Jaguar E-Type looks very similar from the front. Not exactly a common daily driver, but they must have made about a hundred times as many of them as the 2000GT.

 

It was most definitely not a Jaguar E-Type. It had the same shape driving lights and side profile, the windows looked the same too. The rear end appeared to have lost the bumper parts. I want to say the car was white, but what looked like surface rust could have been faded red paint with white primer on sections. Come to think of it, why would anyone let a car of such value go around in such condition?

 

I see a couple of guys tooling around here in GTOs "The Judge", Cameros, Mustangs, Novas, Chevelles, and all sorts of muscle cars but, what do you expect its a bunch of young military guys that have no clue how to spend their money.

 

There's a guy at work who's the kind of car guy you avoid like the plague because he's an automotive "one-upper". But he's got an old MG with a Cosworth 4 banger as his summer DD.

His once in a while car is a De Tomaso with a Twin Turbo 351 Windsor.

So yeah.....like the plague.

 

Lots of neat stuff running around locally in the summer.. a gaggle of sr20det and fuellie 510's, a bunch of 240Z's, LOTS of early turbo bugs, a couple old 911's and a 912, countless domestic musclecars ie; camaros and novas ad nauseum, some big sled impys, bel airs, a very wicked lincoln convert, an MGB GT with a v8 from the guy just up the street and my neighbours 32' ford highboy that he drives to work from may to october.

My good friends DD in the winter is an S4 and the summer is an 88 M3

I'm lusting after a 63 corvair thats got a later 160hp turbo motor in it