What's your daily driver now.

[danny waters sr]

Originally Posted by Travis Miller

My daily driver is my 1997 Chevy Express van. It currently has 411,000 miles on the body. Last year at 367,000 miles its original 350 Vortec laid down on me. (You just cannot get anything to last these days.) It was running great but the plastic intake gasket blew at the water passage and dumped antifreeze internally into the engine making a chocolate milkshake out of the oil. Instead of rebuilding it I opted to buy a brand new 350 Vortec in a crate at the Chevy dealer for $2300 and installed it myself.

My other driver is a 1991 Lumina 4dr that my Mom bought new. I inherited it after she passed away in '04. It recently turned over 100K miles so it has a lot of life still left. It gets 26 MPG on the highway so I see no need to buy a new $20K car that gets the same mileage.

My wife drives our 1996 Formula Firdbird which we bought new. While it was still under warranty I played with it at the dragstrip running 8.73 1/8 mile and 13.80 1/4 mile.

My toy is a 1995 Corvette LT-1 automatic that I bought 3 years ago. It only has 53K miles on it. It has all the whistles and bells. I have pictures of it on my Facebook page.

Travis , What does the Vette run?

[Travis Miller]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

Travis , What does the Vette run?

It is all original, but it does have the optional G92 performance rear axle...3.07 gear

It has run a best of 8.81 on the 1/8 mile

[Dean Oliver]

Most days I drive a 2002 GMC Sierra. When the weather cooperates, I drive a '69 Camaro. Never checked the fuel mileage on it, probably don't want to know. It has a 350 with a 266/272 stocker cam, cast iron intake with a Q-jet, and a 3500 stall converter. It's black with black interior and no A/C, so it's not all that comfortable in the middle of summer.

Dean

[Joe Martens]

I drive a 1995 Camaro. What else? Lol! It's just a base coupe with a V-6 auto, nothing hi-performance.

[treessavoy]

Originally Posted by david ring

Sweet car!
Mine is a 2003 Honda Civic Coupe, low mileage (for a Honda-only 135,000 miles), complete with dents.

My next car will probably be one of the new small Fords-my knees hurt on occasion and those new six speed automatics get even better gas mileage than the sticks-easy on the wallet and easy on the knees!

'64 Valiant V200 sedan with 225, 4bbl on a offenhauser manifold, headers, 4 speed, 8 3/4 posi and rally wheels.....fun car!

JimR

[goinbroke2]

Don't know if I should bring this up or not...
There are some guys who race mopars...and drive mopars, or race Fords and drive Fords etc.

What about the guys who are all Ford/Chev/Dodge at the track, but drive a toyota or hyundai etc as a DD?
Don't want this to turn into a pissing contest, just curious of the mindset. My Mustang is my racecar, my F-350 is my DD and the wife drives a freestar. No, imports cannot park in my driveway! LOL!

I've had quite heated discussions at night when the lanes close on why ford/chev/dodge is best, but then notice their DD is a honda? Seriously?

If this turns the thread ****ty, I'll delete the post. I'm just curious why die hard X fans have a Y as their Daily Driver?

[Ed Fernandez]

It seems there aren't many "American" cars pulling good gas milage comparable to the foreign cars at the same price range and percieved quality.I tend to favor Chrysler but
their cars aren't very gas efficient,unless you count the upcoming Fiat 500 time bomb.

[Mike Schwartz]

I have a 1989 Oldsmobile 88 Royale with the 3.8L Buick engine and over 275,000 miles. It still runs strong even though I abuse the hell out of it.

[smracer2002]

Show me an American car that gets 40 plus
with the air on @ 70 mph,
has the build quality,and most importantly its
what the wife wants.Thats why her dd is a Honda
Civic.It has 87K plus miles,has never been in the shop
for anything other than an oil change or tire rotation
when I couldnt get to it myself.

For the record,I work at a Ford dealership in the parts dept.

[Greg Hill]

My daily driver is a 2009 Ford Flex. So far it's been a great car. My fun car is a 65 GTO convertible with a built 455, 200 R4 trans, twelve bolt 3.73 gear and a lot of suspension and brake upgrades. It is really fast and fun.