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I've had mine for 13 years and put about 33000 on it. Lately I haven't been driving it as much, something like once every few weeks. There's 12 inches on snow on the ground as of yesterday, so needless to say, it's not coming out any time soon.
Good luck with "all the free time" OLE442. I retired a year ago and took my car out less than before. Something wrong with that picture. Gotta correct things this year. By the way, good looking car you've got.
Last edited by Oldriceguy; 12-12-2018 at 01:52 PM.
I seriously doubt my '72 vert sees over 2000 miles/year.....maybe 3x/week it goes out about 3 miles worth, enough to warm up the engine to temp, and errand is over....I live a mile from ; car parts, bank, food, gas, I"m retarred at age 74, on this toy, the hood goes up/down more than the wheels go round.....
it did go across the bridge and to the social security admin building about 3 months ago, total distance maybe 40 miles......first time on the freeway in ~5 months......
but that's ok, the tires are only flat on one side.......my grandson in the avatar.......see link below for pix....
Just reading these comments makes me want to get out for a cruise. It is almost water tight now so I hardly check the weather anymore before taking it out.
Just reading these comments makes me want to get out for a cruise. It is almost water tight now so I hardly check the weather anymore before taking it out.
For the last 9 months there have been maybe ~20 daze without rain.....nuff said......fortunately two of them happened when my kids/grandson were here....
Wish I could take either of my grandads out for a cruise in the C3. Both of them loved muscle cars and sports cars back in the day, with one of them having a 71 Chevelle SS.
We've put just over 1000 miles on it since overhauling the Speedo/Tach back in October. Just made a run this evening to the China Shop ... she ingressed, I remained with the Vette ... and then entertained a couple who was interested.
Beautiful day here in Erath County Texas.
Our '71 is certainly not a Daily Driver, but we try to get her out/about no less than once every two weeks. She's back in the shop with the cover on; snug as a bug in a rug.
I bought mine when I lived in CA and drove it at least once a week unless I was doing a major project (I think it was down for a month when I painted it, but I still drove it a couple times during that process). Then I moved to Texas and my commute was 100 miles round trip. The car had a bunch of issues that didn’t really bother me much on my 16 mile round trip commute in CA, but I didn’t feel comfortable driving it that much anymore. I probably drove it once every couple months. Now I live in Indiana and I still drive it once per month, if that, but I did spend a lot of time working on it since moving here in the spring. Now that I’ve got it to a point where I feel safe driving it again, it’s winter. Yesterday the weather was nice and it would have been a good day to drive it, but the blower motor switch crapped out on me a month or two ago, so it’s probably just gonna sit until spring. Maybe next year I’ll enjoy it more.
Up until late this past summer my '71 has been my daily driver for the past few years so I drove it, well, daily.
Hard Top in the winter and Soft Top all other times. Fun and reliable.
12-10-2018, 09:44 PM
