Daily Driver?

1275gt

Just wondering how many people use a classic as their daily driver?

Also, how many people hide them away under the bed for the winter months.

Personally, i try drive mine every evening I can (i walk to work so dont drive). Ive often wondered as Ive seen cars at shows with 15miles on them and thought thats a bit mad :rolleyes:

mustang68

Not a daily driver, try in the summer to take it to work about once a week, and if I'm off to the shops/colllect someone, but speed ramps are a killer on it.

During the winter it goes into hibernation, hopefully my SSIA will pay for a proper paint job so I can leave it our without panic.

Blue850

Fiat is used every week, not a daily. lives outside in all weathers, SSIA needed to sort it out before bodywork gets too bad, brother has just built a huge shed so winter storage sorted, havent driven Triumph in months.

Dades

Blue850 wrote:

Fiat is used every week, not a daily. lives outside in all weathers, SSIA needed to sort it out before bodywork gets too bad

Exactly what Blue850 said about my own Fiat. Except it gets a spin most days of the week.

Darned last minute signing up for SSIA!

1275gt

The Atheist wrote:

Darned last minute signing up for SSIA!

yah me too :mad:

good to see people are spending their SSIA's on something worthwhile

spidersonmars

My P6 is a daily driver....whenever she starts. Spent my money on deposit for buying my house so no SSIA money. I will store her in a garage this winter, but at the moment, she sleeps under the stars.

mustang68

spidersonmars wrote:

she sleeps under the stars.

Read stars as stairs and thought "Damn, that must be a some big house he lives in"

franksm

Yeah, my Stag gets out most days for an hour or so - and a commute 20 miles each way to work a couple of times too.

Needless to say someone smashed the rearend of it in the carpark last Friday, and did a runner. It's hard enough to keep a car good in Dublin :-/

1275gt

franksm wrote:

Needless to say someone smashed the rearend of it in the carpark last Friday, and did a runner. It's hard enough to keep a car good in Dublin :-/

where thats awful

franksm

Car park near the blue-entrance roundabout in Blanch shopping centre. I normally park away from everyone else (to be ding-free is my mantra) so unfortunatley there was no CCTV there either. Reckon it was a truck that backed into it, as the damage is square-on, and there's no paint left behind.

Second pic down on the left: http://mx5ireland.com/stag/hvv416n/list.htm

Alfasudcrazy

Sorry to hear of the damage to your stag Frank - typically of course these things only happen when you are trying to sell it.

I use the classics for short trips - doing a bit of shopping etc in town. But I always park them on one of the top floors of the multi story by itself. Never park them on the street unless I can keep them under observation.

I never use them on wet roads or obviously in the rain. Even with 7 classics I still manage to drive them all at least once a week - well the scirocco is off road at the min being restored.

franksm

Actually, that's why I would never "store" a car - you know, keeping it in a lockup or anything. Best therapy in the world is just going out to the car, cranking it up and heading "the long way" to the shops or whatever, of a Summer's evening

If I had the car in storage and only able to use it once a week, or after having phoned someone to get the lock-up opened etc, I would probably not use the car ever.

1275gt

franksm wrote:

Best therapy in the world is just going out to the car, cranking it up and heading "the long way" to the shops or whatever, of a Summer's evening

amen brother in fact in watching metcheck right now hoping for it brightening up later :cool:

franksm

And if you don't have a new burning-smell by the time you come home, you know you need to go out again "ah sorry, forgot to buy the newspaper as well"

1275gt wrote:

amen brother in fact in watching metcheck right now hoping for it brightening up later :cool:

mustang68

Hey franksm, there is a pic of me and the mustang in your ad for the stag, Wooo.

Thats it, sell the lifestyle!!

franksm

mustang68 wrote:

Hey franksm, there is a pic of me and the mustang in your ad for the stag, Wooo.

Yeah, you're famous

mustang68 wrote:

Thats it, sell the lifestyle!!

Only until I get myself a house with a driveway - I hate this "fashion" for building houses with just tiny little carpark spaces out front !

mustang68

I've got no driveway myself, in clonee, I kinda muddle through, I'm in an estate off the road on a green so the parking is ok and I can work on it. Not ideal.

You getting anything to replace the stag?

1275gt

franksm wrote:

And if you don't have a new burning-smell by the time you come home, you know you need to go out again "ah sorry, forgot to buy the newspaper as well"

well i have a nice black bin liner meltied around my exhaust at the moment so dont talk to me about burning smells

1275gt

franksm wrote:

Only until I get myself a house with a driveway - I hate this "fashion" for building houses with just tiny little carpark spaces out front !

hey man, your the fella who has the footage of all the guys trying to yoink your mx5 arent you my mate recently joined the mx5 owners club and emailed me the pics of the nackers outside your house, i was thinkin it looked familiar. did u ever catch any of the little toerags :mad::mad::mad:

franksm

mustang68 wrote:

You getting anything to replace the stag?

No - honestly, only reason for selling the Stag is that there's just no room for it. Where I live, it's the middle house of three - and there are only 5 carpark spaces. I already have two cars other than the Stag so three is pushing it. The big doors on the Stag mean that it will easily eat up two spaces whenever I am working on it.

I love the Stags - this is my second, and I bought it knowing it would be a project but realise now that it needs space/cover. I spend more time moving cars around, then setting the Stag up, unpacking tools etc than I do actually working on the car. If I ever do win some space, I'd like to get another one. They're nowhere near as bad as people say. Or would maybe look for a Volvo Amazon.

franksm

1275gt wrote:

hey man, your the fella who has the footage of all the guys trying to yoink your mx5 arent you my mate recently joined the mx5 owners club and emailed me the pics of the nackers outside your house, i was thinkin it looked familiar. did u ever catch any of the little toerags :mad::mad::mad:

LOL - okay, first off, I apologise for the hijacking of this thread - wasn't meant to turn out into all these meanderings and rants.

Yeah - the wee blondie gobshyte got put away for 6 months (thanks to Gardai in Lucan) for wrecking the MX5's roof (plus being caught as a passenger in a joyriders car later). But the car was targetted twice before I put the CCTV in, and because I now know that it's the same handful of duh-heads that are causing the problems in this area, you can bet that it was him who wrecked the previous roof.

v-deniso

Take the Jag and MG out most weekends all year round depending on the weather.

Last weekend I drove the XK to Waterford from Dublin on Saturday afternoon stayed the night there and drove up hood down at 8 pm the following evening doing 55-60 mph all the way home with hardly a soul on the road....I was in heaven!

shagman

My classic is my daily driver (reliant scimitar gte).Use it every day with usually a twice weekly run from kildare to wicklow so it gets a lot of use.I'm on a 10K a year policy (first ireland).The wicklow-kildare runs will end soon so hopefully I wont go over that.... not that I'm particularly worried

dubtom

I haven't had the car out in weeks, been busy with work, got a new car and the weather didn't help.I'm getting a little disillusioned with the approaching winter and the thought of another year in the elements. I think I need a long spin.

ds20prefecture

I'm like shagman - my DS is my daily car. I'm on a 10k insurance policy with First Ireland.

IMO cars are not soluble, and are designed to be driven. My DS, after 40,000km, is still in fine shape although needing some very minor cosmetic work done. It drives much,much better than when I got it.

commited

My Mini is my daily driver. I've done 1000miles in the last 2 weeks or so

Lyre61

My Sm only gets out once or twice a week but to agree with DS when the C5 was in getting repaired I used the SM for two whole weeks as the daily and it was running better than ever You need to use them

Itsfixed

shagman wrote:

My classic is my daily driver (reliant scimitar gte).Use it every day with usually a twice weekly run from kildare to wicklow so it gets a lot of use.I'm on a 10K a year policy (first ireland).The wicklow-kildare runs will end soon so hopefully I wont go over that.... not that I'm particularly worried

yeah my 74 BMW 2002tii is my daily driver, no garage, first ireland 10k a year policy, used most evenings at the moment (cycle to work) and weekends.

Agree that classics are there to be used. Can't afford to otherwise. We had a run of 2002s to johnnie foxes the other day and there was a chap there with a 2002 cabrio - it was the kind of nut-and-bolt restored car you could eat your dinner off. personally i would be afraid to own it as it is so perfect. in faireness to him he did a couple of doughnuts in the pub car park.