ffvetteman

Just read a post about not seeing many C4's on the road. Got me wondering who else does still use their C4 as a daily driver?

I have a 84 that I drive daily during the summer. Park it when salt hits the road but other than that I drive it even in the rain. I maintain it myself so it is pretty cheap to drive and paid it off over 10 years ago. Decent gas mileage as I get mid 20's all the time even though I don't baby it. And I normally put on10k - 15k a summer.
Anyone else with me here or am I an endangered species?

Joe C

just sold my 96 friday, and presently i'm vette-less. i have had three c4's over the last 16 years (85, 90, and 96), and all three have been DD. like you, i did park them during the winter - pretty much parked them at the first road salting, and usually back on the road sometime in april. i'm not out for the count, but willl be back in a corvette within a year or so. BTW, my son lives in florida, and now owns my 85. it's still on the road as a, year round, DD.

Nowhere Man

I drive my 94 year round in south central PA with no problems.

VA50th

I drive my 96 coupe everyday to work except if the weather (heavy rain/snow, etc) is in the forecast. For those days we leave it to the Chevy Silverado.

Lathroum

I have a 1986... had 50k when I bought it 3 years ago...
has 57K now... I drive it just about every day...

My commute to work is under 2 miles... sometimes I take the looooooooong way home...

DA1984VETTE

I drive mine when I can. I don't drive it to work for various reasons, unless I have to. I have had my 84 for 4.5 years and now has 65K miles on it, had 36K when I bought it. It doesn't get driven in the winter.

sluggballz

Sold my 96 Cutlass to buy this 95 vert. She is my daily driver, as I have no other car to drive. My work is 6 miles away , so not alot of miles on her. I bought her in July of last year and I think I've put about 5 thousand miles on her. I just took her out for my longest trip yet with her to an airshow yesterday, 200 miles round trip, and she was a champ, better than 23 MPG with the air going and doing 65-70 MPH.

1995 CORVETTE Convertable by chadv68, on Flickr

superdave269

My 92 looks just like the one in the post above. I drive it all the time. I drive it a lot more than my C3s.

pkazsr

As long as there is no snow, ice or salt on the road I drive mine.

dlrx

I bought mine on NYE last year, got 3k miles on it since. Not really a classic daily driver (try to avoid rainy days, need to change the stripping out, waiting for summer heat to do it), but I have recently used it as such.

I needed to figure out it's mechanical warts at some point (which I have), but I'll use it from now on mostly as my "trip" car (hence the miles so far, about 750 miles/month usually) and when I get extended dry forecasts, it'll be a true DD. Unfortunately it's May, rainy season in Iowa - been parked/covered since Monday.

I bought this thing to drive, not as a "Corvette Investment". I'd driven trucks for 17 years in a row, saving that for winter and normal truck use as much as possible.

Vetteran 1

Hi, I'm new to the forum but have been following for over a year now. I have a 87 with 47,000 and drive it daily an hour to and from work , and park it for the winter .

C4Fanatic

Drive my ZR-1 nearly daily, I've put 23,000miles on the clock since I bought her back in Nov. '10. Of course I don't drive her when there's snow on the ground, but I don't even like driving the Tahoe when the roads are like that...snow sucks, but other than that she's on the road anytime I want to get somewhere.

C4Fanatic

And along this same theme, I was just looking at a post on Facebook about a Callaway C6 with 119,000 miles, daily driven rain, sleet, snow or shine according to the author. Gotta love that!

LT1*C4

Daily driven here. Only time the car stays parked is when I'm working on it, or if there's actual snow on the ground. Aside from that, it's driven year-round.

Fuel economy is still pretty descent considering my driving style and the fact that the windows are always down and the roof always off (even in the winter - ) I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of about 16mpg around town and maybe 24mpg on the highway.

The more you drive these cars, the less problems you'll have. It's when you don't drive them that they start costing you an arm and a leg...

These things were made to be driven!


By mid-summer (if not earlier) my '92 will hit the 250k kilometer mark. I will have to celebrate the event by spending more money on it.

pianoguy

My '96 is my daily driver from spring until fall, though this year I have only driven it on nice days - too busy for the cleanup that would be required if it gets all cruddy.

Old Ben

I drive my 92 to work once or twice a week and maybe a cruise on the weekend when the weather is nice. Tend not to drive it when it is raining.

Ward Cleaver

My '96 is my daily driver. I live in an area of North Carolina with mild weather, so salt is not a concern and I can drive it year round.

We have a 2012 V6 Buick LaCrosse for when I occasionally need something bigger, but wifey usually drives that, and my consistent day-to-day car is my '96 Vette.

Ward Cleaver

In Toronto Canada

88Woody

My "plan" is to drive mine on weekends specifically, my wife and myself, on open roads (where I can find them) in NJ. But the desire to drive it more often hits me quite a bit. But Jersey roads during rush hour traffic kind of concerns me.

LT1*C4

Damn right!

It's funny watching peoples reactions seeing someone drive a Vette with the roof off in the middle of winter. I get a lot of thumbs up from people and on more than one occasion have had people take photo's of me with their cell phones.

I don't do it ALL the time mind you, if it's like -20 with the wind chill, or I'm driving with a passenger next to me, yeah, I'll put the top on. But generally, the car's small interior stays quite warm with the heater up full blast. From the neck up though, I admit, it can get cold sometimes...