Hi, I see alot of comments on the 60′s cars and newer. I was wondering about a 40′s or 50′s cars. My husband has had it with newer cars and their electronics (and everything else) and is trying to convince me that we can have our retirement car as something in the 40′s or 50′s cause he can do everything to them in his sleep. I am not sure and I am dreading it. Does anyone have any feedback?
Thanks

I think that anything with a carb is old…. fuel injected shouldnt be considered an old car….then again there are some old cars that are fuel injected

A daily driver as a classic, would no doubt be purchased by someone who didn’t care for it

thats not true, i car about my car, keep it well maintained

adter 20 years, there is an epiphany. If there wasn’t, the car wouldn’t have made it that far…A daily driver as a classic, would no doubt be purchased by someone who didn’t care for it

thats not true, someone of us cant afford a garage, or need a ride to get to work, I bring my 78 lincoln in for all the sceduled maintenance, and it probably runs better then most cars that have been sitting for ages

My uncle has a 72 nova he still drives. Its primer gray with lotsa rust. As for me, I don’t have anything that old, but my festiva turns 20 next year, so I guess its technicly almost a classic. I also have a 92 spirit rt and another regular 93 spirit coming up for status soon. I know these aren’t desirable cars yet, so I’m not really sure I want to call them classic.

I drive a 1982 Chrysler New Yorker-Fifth Avenue w/a 2bbl 318, an A-999 TorqueFlite, and 7 1/2 rear daily; have gotten as good as 32 mpg on the highway no lies. who needs airbags when you’ve got METAL serounding you. these old cars are stronger, better made, more comfortable, and have better materels in and out. ABS trac. control and that sort of thing is for people who can’t drive!

ya i drive my 78 monte on a daily basis to school.
have a 1991 305 Throttle Body Injection that was out of a total camaro. it also came w/ the 700r4 with overdrive and i’m run 2.73 gears on a posi carrier.

i get low 20 if u baby but i have some fun sometimes so i get 19 mpg. but i’m 16 i gotta have fun

I see the occasional “old-school” ride with regular plates at the weekly cruise night, and generally assume that means the car is a daily driver (in Maryland, you can’t get Historic plates for your only car–you have to have at least one car with standard registration). One couple in our Mopar club put regular tags on their recently-purchased ’63 Belvedere, saying they’d bought it specifically because it was “in good enough shape to pass inspection.”
As recently as last year, I went past the Linthicum library and spotted a well-used ’68 or ’69 GTO convertible in the parking lot–someone’s been using that as a daily driver for many years.
Now you’ve got me wanting to look around for pre-1977 cars with regular plates on them…

I have a 66 mustang as my daily driver it has a 4bbl 302 and i get about 14 mpg but i don’t care its so sweet to drive i will never give it up

But cant drive it in the winter