I own my cars and I both drive them and trailer them. These are like art to me, and functional and I like to keep them as clean as possible. They are also investments, My money in the bank makes me .5% and I can’t go there and play with it. These will make me 5% a year or more and I can play with them all I want. So it only makes sense to care for them as best I can, trailering helps me do that when shows are more than 30-45 minutes away. Rarely a week goes by that I don’t drive them just to enjoy them even on winter nice days.
Mine is more like a garage queen. Just never seem to find the time to drive it, summers are too short here and so much gets crammed into that time. Sitting at car shows and cruise nights bores me so I don't go to them. Try and take it for a long drive to nowhere when I do get a chance. I do move it to the front garage so I can see it more often. It is like art to me also.
I rotisserie restored my Super Bee back in 05. Trailered it to all the shows the first year, but after that I drove it. It's a little tough at first, but you get used to it. I've put 16,000 miles on it since the restoration. KID
Their car, their choice. Me, I'd rather drive it. My thoughts might be different if it was a low mileage, survivor. Or a concours restoration. Mine is neither. I enjoy looking at mine in the garage, and think damn, I'm lucky / worked hard enough to own this. Then I drive it. And that puts even more of a smile on my face. In spite of it's flaws. After I spent a small fortune on some panel work, I was paranoid for a while. that passed soon enough.
Funny part of this thread the OP has never been back and is probably laughing at everyone yell about this. If it has too much gear and has big compression it is going to be on the trailer, let's face it race gas and 13.1 comp costs a lot. But if not at this crazy level drive the bad boy, they do it on the power tour.
Fox's Den, I thought the same thing. The OP flung a turd over the fence at his neighbor and ran inside to watch the reaction through the window and laugh. My '72 had 13:1 and 4.11 gears for over 15 years and that was a big factor of why I only drove the car a few hundred miles a year, to local shows and the local drag strip to run it. I did not own a truck or trailer and it was expensive to drive it with the $8/gallon race fuel.
Drive it , show it, race it, trailer it, crash it, fix it and repeat. Except the crash part. Dont wanna do that again. I'll trailer when it make financial sense to do so like going to BG. Car gets 10 MPG truck towing car gets 16-18.
He only posts about 1 time per month and the best post he could come up with was a derogatory comment about how other people use their car and then logs out? He's obviously just got cabin fever and looking to poke at people. A real asset to the board for sure.
A guy I know was an engine builder at one time. Built a few for me. I went to pick up a block of mine he still had. Blew my mind the vehicles he has. ZR1 Vette 638hp. Another one 755hp. New Mach 1 Mustang. Hellcat. All black. All with less than 100 miles on them. Loaded F450 trucks (2 of them, one with 50 miles on it, the other he actually uses). These are just his new vehicles. To him he would rather look at something tangible that his bank account balance but to me why have them if you can't drive them? The guy that made alot of $$$ in real estate and stock market. No kids.....
Trailer or not who cares. I like the analogy to marriage and s**. If I wasn’t married for 125 years I doubt I would be hiding in the garage hammering on an old Buick.
