How many miles per year...$75k - $100k Car?

[Zedder]

Thanks for all of the responses! I wasn’t putting anyone’s cars down with the price range I stated, that is just the value of a lot of the cars that I am interested in pursuing and I wondered if my thoughts on the number of miles I might do per year was similar to others. I got out of owning muscle cars about 10 years ago because of the crazy prices, fraud and the fact that I barely drove them. Tried air cooled Porsches and drove about 1,000 miles per year the first few years and that number dwindled as values climbed and driving in the city got worse. My wife and I have been rear ended 3 times in the past 3 years by distracted drivers. It has literally gotten to the point of choosing my routes etc. When in a fun car or when I was on my vintage Harleys to stay away from higher traffic areas. I finally sold all 3 of my bikes last year because i was becoming nervous when riding due to all of the idiots out there! I put only 230 miles on my 993 this Summer...

So perhaps it is time for me to just accept that I won’t drive them that much and that is OK. I spend most weekends in the garage and enjoy puttering around out there with my toys and talking to buddies that stop by.

[x77-69z28]

Call out!!!!!!

[Mr70]

LOL guys.

[KenMaisano]

Custom Built 71 Hemi Duster Pro Touring $200K Build. 1600 Miles in the last year.
69 RS Canadian Z/28 All born with drivetrain All original sheet metal
One of the best in the world $100K. In the last Four months 500 miles
74 SD 455 T/A born with drivetrain Fully restored. $75K. 2000 miles in the last year.

[Xplantdad]

Larry Christiansen drives his real Yenko Camaro...he's even driven it in the rain! So I guess that counts

[EZ Nova]

Now that's more like it.

Ken, I'm not on facebook, but hear there something about a SC/Rambler??? Can you elaborate.

[KenMaisano]

Originally Posted by EZ Nova

Now that's more like it.

Ken, I'm not on facebook, but hear there something about a SC/Rambler??? Can you elaborate.

We built the car for SCR20, we got rained out.. and MCACN .. After some dialing in she ran 8.50s



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[EZ Nova]

That looks fun. Nice job.

[Zedder]

Thanks guys and EZnova for clarifying. He is exactly right about the intent of my post. As i’ve Gotten older, i’ve Tried to have toys that I would drive, but in reality, I really don’t drive them much and wondered if others did the same. After reading the replies here, it sounds like even the driver quality cars don’t get driven much. Sure, there are some places like AZ where the cruise night cars are amazing...but I just haven’t seen those types of cars at our local cruise nights for many years. I remember meeting up with a buddy in 2000 at the Milton cruise. We both had 67 Z’s and there were 2 LS6 Chevelles and 3 COPOs parked beside us. Those were great cruise nights!

[GrumpyJeff]

I usally don't even bother with most of the local cruise nites or car shows anymore. I most times just take a short cruise to a buddies garage to hang out, go fill the gas tank or get a case of beer or whatever. But almost every drive ends with a burnout & a hi winding blast thru the gears on the final straight away before my development. Then park it and cover it up till the next time