Mine is sitting out the parking lot right now waiting for quitting time in about 38 minutes. I'll have aneasy 25 mile ride home. Very little traffic to actually deal with.
...I actually envy you guys. I walk to work...... from one room to the other......yes, I work from home. But when the coupe is finally, totally finished,(3 weeks?) I'm gonna drive it all the time.
I try to drive my old truck as much as I can. It's an awesome feeling to drive something you love so much...to have it waiting for you after work...the masterpiece that you built. I used to commute from Albuquerque to Santa Fe (about 60 mi) everyday, and on Thursdays (my Friday) I would bring the 62...thumbs up all the way. I love it. My buddy Greg commutes daily in a 65 Chevy panel...He wouldn't have it any other way...
It was kinda hard to drive to work in the Army. I kinda lived there, step out the door and your there. I remember doing an engine change in the car park once and taking it for a drive with just the extractors on it. Had the Navy Police Coxins come down and tell me it was too loud and not to drive it again(I was at the Army Parachute School then we lived on the Navy base). I thought that was odd as we lived on an operational airbase with fighter jets taking off and landing 100m away, couldn't hear it my car at full noise then and they still said it was too loud!
Some of us still have to finish building them before we can drive them. Thanks for rubbing it in, you A-holes! Great thoughts on the mundane, Ryan. Puts a wonderful spin on an otherwise ****py day. PS. Got my Alliance tag today. THAT made my week!
I take a break from my "late" model P/U 87 truck and drive my Ghia on the weekend to work it is a good time. I can't wait till I can drive the A to work I have a goal of the end of this year to drive it.
I only drove my car to work one time cause construction sites aren't rod friendly but pulled up in the morning that I knew we had a short day and got parking right in front of the trailer of the GC they let me park it there on the asphalt and right in front it was good for an apprentice to get some parking like that. Gotta lotta looks driving home in down town St.Louis traffic.
I'm like 3 window larry, I walk to work. But I have to go out the back door and walk 20 or so feet to the garage/shop door! What little driving I do through the week is often done in my 50 Dodge. It is my winter beater/shop truck/snow plow/work truck. I probably put 4-5,000 miles a year on it, but it draws attension everyplace it goes. Not really a hot rod, but its old and fun and it saves the 39 Plymouth for the summer driving. Gene
I drive my '50 often...work out of my shop a lot, so don't have as much driving to do as I used. Started my '50 project in '89, on the road in '93, been driving it ever since. One winter it was the only vehicle I had, so drove it to work in the salt (even!)...All these years, no wipers ever, no heat, no A/C, just raw hot rod tin. My "new" work truck is a '78 Dodge PU, so drive the "new" one in bad weather.
The only down side of driving your hot rod every day is every once in a while, some cell phone talking jack *** pushes your stool in... If you look real close, you can see two of my mechanics drive thier hot rods too. The old shoebox suffered the same fate. This chick was talking on her cell AND beating the kids at the same time. I saw her commin in the rear view... All I could do was hang on and take it. Oh well, you fix em and drive em some more. -Abone.
I used to work ten min from home and drove my older stuff always.... Now I have a 40 min drive more or less in the city where people drive like idiots... The biggest scare was getting t boned in my brother's Falcon three years ago... Now I drive a lowered, supercharged late model Riviera with loud pipes.... It's kinda fun but still not the same. I did a similar thing... tore my truck apart in 03 to make it power daily driver friendly (power steering/disc brakes) and it has been in disaray for 4 years.... I will admit it was fun driving my dad's newly aquired 390/4 speed '68 Ranchero home on the parkway with 4 flat spotted bias plies, disconnected power steering and a misaligned window blowing 20 degree air in...Made me realize what a wuss I have become.
Damn , that ****s!! Hey, what ever happened to the shoe box. I kinda remember you selling it, then what?
Same happened to me in my A pickup, I was rearended by a young gal farding (putting on make-up in the car). Got it fixed OK and I still drive almost everyday to work in the traffic that try to race me as their fart tip mufflers p*** by.
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