What's a "Driver"?
01-30-2013, 08:18 AM
#21
Melting Slicks
The license plate on my 5 X Top Flight car is DRIVER because I drive it. BTW it's going on it's 3rd Road Tour this July. 
01-30-2013, 08:43 AM
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2023 C3 of the Year Finalist - Unmodified
2021 C8 of the Year Finalist Unmodified
2020 Corvette of the Year Finalist (performance mods)
2019 C1 of Year Winner (performance mods)
2017 Corvette of the Year Finalist
2016 C2 of Year
2015 C3 of Year Finalist
The bronze 55 belongs to Roy Braatz and he drives it everywhere and it is also a top flight car. He is 55copper on the CF.
Here is another top flight car that gets driven every weekend and hundreds of miles to NCRS meets. It has been repainted and the interior redone many years ago and both show their age and wear. But the car is NCRS correct, has born with drivetrain and has earned Regional and National top flight awards, after being driven to the meets. It is a driver, and is an NCRS car. You can have both.
Here is another top flight car that gets driven every weekend and hundreds of miles to NCRS meets. It has been repainted and the interior redone many years ago and both show their age and wear. But the car is NCRS correct, has born with drivetrain and has earned Regional and National top flight awards, after being driven to the meets. It is a driver, and is an NCRS car. You can have both.
Nice drivers are my favorite. I like them to look reasonably clean and drive well, but a little patina doesn't hurt.
01-30-2013, 10:03 AM
#24
Team Owner
My car show sign has in red letters at the bottom:
"This car is driven everywhere it goes; if you see it on a trailer please call 9-1-1. It's been stolen!"
Gets lots of laughs.
"This car is driven everywhere it goes; if you see it on a trailer please call 9-1-1. It's been stolen!"
Gets lots of laughs.
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01-30-2013, 11:26 AM
#28
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01-30-2013, 12:28 PM
#30
Le Mans Master
It's all opinions, but:
If you drive it to three or four or five shows a year, it isn't a driver.
If you get up on Saturday morning and have to go down to the hardware store, and stop for lunch, and pick up your son at his buddies house after a sleepover...it's a driver.
It's not about how ratty it is or is not.
If you drive it to three or four or five shows a year, it isn't a driver.
If you get up on Saturday morning and have to go down to the hardware store, and stop for lunch, and pick up your son at his buddies house after a sleepover...it's a driver.
It's not about how ratty it is or is not.
01-30-2013, 12:42 PM
#31
Melting Slicks
I know many drive their cars on a fairly regular basis as do I, but how many will use the term "DRIVER" when it's time to sell it.
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01-30-2013, 01:49 PM
#32
Race Director
an honest FOR SALE ad saying DRIVER
means it is not a high $$$$ original/restored car being sold at a low price. The price reflects the condition, which does not compare to a newly restored car.
means it is not a high $$$$ original/restored car being sold at a low price. The price reflects the condition, which does not compare to a newly restored car.
01-30-2013, 02:08 PM
#33
What is a Driver? A driver is a car that after 10 years of slugging your guts out trying to restore it, you finally give up and say fark it, and just drive it
01-30-2013, 05:15 PM
#34
Le Mans Master
I don't drive it much..., maybe a couple hundred miles a year. But I've owned it for >28 years and never did drive it much.
And while I modified, and had it modified, to my taste with new paint, interior, Guldstrand suspension, etc, and the "period correctly modified" engine makes an honest 350 hp, I still consider it a "driver" as opposed to a "trailer queen" or other.
And while I modified, and had it modified, to my taste with new paint, interior, Guldstrand suspension, etc, and the "period correctly modified" engine makes an honest 350 hp, I still consider it a "driver" as opposed to a "trailer queen" or other.
01-30-2013, 07:27 PM
#35
Team Owner
A gorgeous car; but IMO a couple hundred miles a year does not a "driver" make.
I don't care if Mike Brewer did drive it. (Wheeler Dealer comes on tonight down here in Florida!)
I don't care if Mike Brewer did drive it.
(Wheeler Dealer comes on tonight down here in Florida!)
01-30-2013, 08:08 PM
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Damn that car is gorgeous, wow.
01-30-2013, 08:50 PM
#38
Le Mans Master
So then what, "sitters?" Maybe "squatters?"
01-31-2013, 08:38 PM
#40
Le Mans Master
You think mine would qualify as a driver ?
The bronze 55 belongs to Roy Braatz and he drives it everywhere and it is also a top flight car. He is 55copper on the CF.
Here is another top flight car that gets driven every weekend and hundreds of miles to NCRS meets. It has been repainted and the interior redone many years ago and both show their age and wear. But the car is NCRS correct, has born with drivetrain and has earned Regional and National top flight awards, after being driven to the meets. It is a driver, and is an NCRS car. You can have both.
Here is another top flight car that gets driven every weekend and hundreds of miles to NCRS meets. It has been repainted and the interior redone many years ago and both show their age and wear. But the car is NCRS correct, has born with drivetrain and has earned Regional and National top flight awards, after being driven to the meets. It is a driver, and is an NCRS car. You can have both.
Jack