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Offline drewcrane

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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #30 on: February 12, 2010 - 11:40:09 PM »
I drive the crap out of mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #31 on: February 13, 2010 - 12:37:30 AM »
 :cooldancing: sweet Drew.   YUP   I drive mine all over. Thinkn' about cruisn' to Vegas soon. I built mine to drive. My favorite part on the whole dang car is the pistol grip.  :bigsmile:
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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2010 - 01:32:09 AM »
When I bought my car in 1985 I drove it everywhere.  Took it to work, shopping, and any excuse to go for a drive.  Went to Milan, MI for the Mopar Nats and that was a good test as the roads and Highways were very rough.  My radio fell out when I hit one of those pot holes.  Also went to Columbus, OH and the car drove perfect.
Since then I don't drive it as much but still go where I can.  I'm hoping maybe this year to take a chance and drive to Carlisle, but I'll need a passport and my medical problems might prevent it.
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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #33 on: February 13, 2010 - 02:17:00 AM »
I drive mine every chance i get. I also do alot of local cruise ins and car shows
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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #34 on: February 13, 2010 - 02:41:46 AM »
I have never trailered My cars anywhere. I've driven to plenty of shows. I dont drive my cars as much as I'd like but more then My insurance agent would like.  :biggrin: I havent driven " Twisted Fish "  anywhere yet,  :hyper: but when it's done I want to drive the #$%@! out of it because that is what it was made for!  :burnout:
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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #35 on: February 13, 2010 - 04:49:33 AM »
I drive to shows and try to cruise the town on weekends if it's not raining.  I drive about 300 miles per summer. 

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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #36 on: February 13, 2010 - 08:57:38 AM »
When they were first bought they were daily transportation, ordered and optioned the way we wanted them, dealer prep'd and out the door. Our Challenger and Charger were stripped down to bare mental all over, top to bottom, front to back. My body shop friend wanted to paint the underside and clear coat it. NO WAY, I told help to prep it just like he was going to do that then undercoat it just like a factory or dealer would do in the day. I bought and built them to drive and enjoy  :2thumbs:

Yes they all are pampered and I don't drive them from Oct. to April if the spring weather permits, I don't take them out into the rain but only because of the added time needed for clean up. Of course the Chally has indeed seen it's share of rain going to Carlisle, but that is Pam's car.  :roflsmiley:  Hopefully we can drive them more this year, last year the Chally was the only one to have current tags bought for her so we could attend Carlisle.  :cheers:
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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #37 on: February 14, 2010 - 05:04:31 PM »
I drive my Challenger around 2500 miles a season and also drive my Cuda around 1800 miles. They seem to run better the more I drive them.


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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #38 on: February 14, 2010 - 05:38:50 PM »
:cooldancing: sweet Drew.   YUP   I drive mine all over. Thinkn' about cruisn' to Vegas soon. I built mine to drive. My favorite part on the whole dang car is the pistol grip.  :bigsmile:

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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #39 on: February 14, 2010 - 06:04:07 PM »
drive mine as often as i can. about 7000+ miles a year.
it's a rough old car but i love it and it has never let me down.

did another big road trip in january, lots of miles of really rough, rutted, and often loose gravel roads.
got pretty filthy!




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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #40 on: February 14, 2010 - 06:11:13 PM »
We've had the vert for a year and a half now which has given me about five months of seasonal weather... I'm still just shakin' her loose.  :burnout:

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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #41 on: February 14, 2010 - 06:21:04 PM »
I plan on switching around between the Challenger, Cuda, Polara and 66 Charger and that way only the 69 Charger will feel left out :roflsmiley:

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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #42 on: February 15, 2010 - 06:23:14 AM »
Built it to drive,not sit and look at it!I did do a bunch of local shows the first year I had it back on the road but got bored with then pretty quick.I still drive to local cruise nights,hang out for a little while and then just cruise some more.I also hit the drags a lot and still want to hit an autocross or track day on a road course to really have some fun cornering.
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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #43 on: February 15, 2010 - 07:18:35 AM »
drive it every weekend,my 3 and 4 year old kids love to cruise in the barracuda to  :aussie:
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Re: Do you drive your car often or mostly show it?
« Reply #44 on: February 15, 2010 - 07:47:08 AM »
Mine mostly just sits in the garage until I get around to restoring it!.