Oldest daily driver

[chris1991]

Who here owns the oldest car in regular use. Used all year round and is your main mode of transport. 

[Mr Lobster]

A ten year old SEAT Toledo isn't going to win this particular contest, is it.

[wuvvum]

For about nine months my daily was a 1966 HA Viva.  My current daily, as long as this weather holds, is a 1983 Honda Lead 125, but when the weather inevitably turns to shit again it'll be a 1998 Rover 220, so I doubt I'm in with much of a shout either.

[Angrydicky]

My 1953 Austin Somerset is my main car at the moment, used regularly in all weathers. Pictured at Gaydon yesterday, where I met up with some fellow young classic car owners! 

 

[scruff]

My Land Rover is currently my only road legal motor apart from my truck, it's a '52. Used to use it for commuting when I had a proper job - 80 miles a day. It's not used as much as Dicky's is though! 

[dollywobbler]

Dicky makes me feel woefully inadequate. I was commuting in a 1955 Austin A90 Westminster a few years ago, but it wasn't my only vehicle. Was bloody awesome blasting up the A1(M) in it at 70mph.

 

I just can't see me ever having a single car, of any age.

[overrun]

A ten year old SEAT Toledo isn't going to win this particular contest, is it.

You are tied with me.

[HillmanImp]

1987 Citroen Visa is the daily and has been for about 7 months now. Miles off Dicky and Scruff though. 

[theorganist]

Either a 1981 Princess for 1990 Fiesta both which seem you in comparison to AngryDicky's lovely Austin. I did a have a 1966 Austin 1100 as a daily four years ago.

 

I don't really drive daily though probably every other day on average!

[Six-cylinder]

I have just gone back from a 2003 MG ZT-T to a 1990 Mercedes 200TE, it feels like it is going to be much easier to look after.

[HMC]

I immediately thought of scruff and angry dicky, my own dailys fairly young- being 82 and 92 depending on how slowly I want to travel.

[AlabamaShrimp]

For about 6 years my 1983 fiesta was my main car. Used it for my business too, she people did comment on it. With that in the garage it's a 1988 fiesta for the last 3 years so I'm well off age wise

[mercrocker]

I have used  my 1963 Minor daily for work since I bought it in December 2004, keeping my 1967 Oxford  for weekends.   The Oxford is out of use at present and I am fettling the 1955 Cowley to take its place.   Although the Minor (and Oxford) have ploughed through ice and salt I have decided a WBD is in order in future as I cannot afford any more chassis repairs.   The Cowley is unwelded and I intend to keep it that way.   In dire backup situations (usually a badly planned maintenance session) I use my E reg VW camper as runaround.  Mrs Rocker has an H reg 190E which we take if we go long distance.   This is the newest vehicle I have owned.

[fordperv]

I'm far from winning this, mine is my lovely 1992 k plate sapphire gls

 

Mrs fordpervs is her 1988 escort rs turbo

[Lankytim]

Mrs Lankytim uses an 04 plate Fiat.

[eddyramrod]

1992 MR2, so I'm a long way behind some people here.  But at least it does get proper daily use, I came home from work today with the T-tops off!

[Sloth in a bowl]

I lose so badly at this, my daily was registered 60 days ago.

[CortinaDave]

for a while I ran my 71 and 79 cortinas as my dailies a couple of years ago, but I admit on a cold winter morning when I had a 4:30am alarm call, walking out to the shit heater in a 'tina and trying to coax it into starting became a chore rather than a pleasure.

 

Plus my 60 mile a day round trip commute was killing them.

 

I now run a boring 11 year old daily MG ZT, and have the cortina for fun.

[scruff]

There's a lot of truth in that, after several years freezing my ballz off I upgraded to a 1993 Peugeot 205 turbo diesel for winter commuting duties followed by a C15 van. First sign of sun and it was back in the Landy though. 

[Albert Ross]

1970 Diesel Land Rover. Sure, it's noisy and slow. Just like me!

[DSdriver]

Our most recently built car is the peugeot of last resort which is on a W plate.

 

This is my daily

Boatyard by DSdriver, on Flickr

 

The green XM estate (Thunderbird 2) which was supposed to take some of the pressure off the Safari hasn't. It spends most of its time about to break or waiting to be repaired.

[vulgalour]

Until it failed the MoT, my 1980 Princess was my daily.  Now I'm tootling around in a '97 Xantia which is annoyingly modern and reliable.

[Lukas]

Would be interesting to know how the daily drive looks like. If it´s really daily, at rushhour, on a crowded motorway around the capital city or if it is on quite B-roads in the countryside once or twice a week.

[mercrocker]

My daily  commute in the Minor is quite short, about 6 miles.  Half the time I start early before the rush but come home in it, or I go late morning and come home at night.  It does sit  bumper to bumper some of the time but it has been in all weathers for the past 9 and a half years.  Only the amount of welding it has had (and still needs)  is making me think about the winter more carefully....It will still be a 3 season car though and still gets used for four hour journeys, motorways in torrential rain and pulling a (very small) caravan around the south coast.   Standard 1098 (never touched it...) but new SU carb, electronic ignition, alternator and disc brakes (they are no better than the drums but reduce maintenance) and electronic fuel pump have brought reliability up to 1980s/90s standards which is all I need from any car.....Its only my own ageing and associated softness that ever makes me grab the Merc keys instead of the Minor.

[Ratdat]

I'm in the fortunate position of not having to commute anywhere so I have no real need of a 'modern'. My most modern that sees regular use is the Prairie but that's because it's so very useful and also unerringly reliable. It just hauled my entire two pitch stall, size-able quantity of goods and caravan to Beaulieu Autojumble at the weekend without complaint. 

 

 

 

Through the summer I use the '62 Bluebird quite a bit as I love chugging around in it. It's slow but perfectly suited to rural roads. I shall be out in it this evening.

 

[cms206]

My daily until I crashed it was the Council Estate 740, currently it's the '97 940 Turbo; back up is the '92 Montego LX... which I'd really rather was a Cavalier after a hurl in RobT's 2.0CDi at the weekend

[cms206]

Will the Council Estate live again, CMS?

Ohhh yeah, it's just behind schedule; it's in the carpark at the MiL's with two flat tyres. It'll get dragged into work to get sorted whenever I buy new track rod ends and an indicator lens.

[HillmanImp]

Had not realised you had bashed it, I either missed it or was pissed when you posted it. What happened?

 

No doubt any superficial damage will only add to its charm.

[Junkman]

My daily is my Oct. 1975 P6 V8, which is exactly that - my daily. It's used for every mundane task, in all weathers, year round.

Commuting, shopping, tip runs, the lot. It's done this for five years now, with being a few months off the road now and then,

when major disasters had to be dealt with.

 

Of course it's not in the same league as Angrydicky's Austin, which was already old, when my car was new,

but I might rank high in the Coup de cinglé OMGMPG for daily drivers.

[michael1703]

not me, but ive got an 81 yeard old customer that drives a 1954 riley rme all year round, its his only vehicle and he has owned it since 1968

 

i used to commute in a 1958 rover p4 300 miles a week when fuel was a bit cheaper