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Old 07-08-2014, 05:45 PM
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I drive mine usually 3-4 times per week. Every Saturday morning I go to the bank then get my wife a coffee after. During the week I try to do my Tuesday night cruise night and a couple of other times. I am self employed so I am home all the time. If I am not driving it, I am working on it.

So how often are you guys driving during the season?
Old 07-08-2014, 06:01 PM
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I've been averaging 5k a year. This year has been really rainy around here, so I don't think I'll get there, but it's early yet.
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Originally Posted by Hpozzuoli
I drive mine usually 3-4 times per week. Every Saturday morning I go to the bank then get my wife a coffee after. During the week I try to do my Tuesday night cruise night and a couple of other times. I am self employed so I am home all the time. If I am not driving it, I am working on it.

So how often are you guys driving during the season?
Also probably 4-5 days a week. I'm continuing to tweak the carburation since I put a Holley 8150 on it. Gas mileage has varied from nearly 24 mpg (!) before we discovered the secondaries weren't opening fully and it was jetted too lean. Now I'm getting much better performance but the mileage has dropped to 17 mpg. It fun working on it and driving it never fails to put a smile on my face!
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Not nearly as much as I'd like to. The kids are out of school and I drive them every day to swim practice so taking the vette is impossible. I drive it about one day a week though. The good thing is that living in Arizona I can drive it year round.
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I live about a mile off a major shopping 8 lane highway....and on MY side is every possible thing I could need.....except a hospital/doc/surgeon.....

so my vette sees about 2k/year anymore...maybe less, really....

nice to be all retarred and all.....snore.....
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once or twice a week depending on the weather. Sometimes i don't drive it for weeks if it rains every day or if I'm repairing something on it. I do about 2500 miles a year.
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I usually drive it once or twice a week
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I drive my 74 a lot less now that I have a motorcycle that the wife loves. We take a long ride to somewhere just about every weekend now, and I commute to work every day that doesn't have a high probability of rain.

I did take the Corvette to Katie's Cars and Coffee on Saturday morning and spent some time working on it today, but I truly don't drive it as much as I did last year.

I keep chipping away at the minor issues that irritate me and I am making progress, but it takes some of the joy away from driving it any distance. The heat is a killer on any drive over 30 minutes.

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I have mine since 2012 and put 35 miles on it. Then I took it all apart.
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Old 07-08-2014, 07:41 PM
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I got mine on the road a couple of months ago (finally) and have seemed to find some reason to drive it almost every day. This is my first vette, and I really love driving it around.
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I would say 20 times each summer season. No long trips. We are well into July and I see 752 miles on the trip odometer. That is consistent with the last dozen years. I will probably end up with 1,200 miles when winter storage comes along. Last year was 1,350 miles.
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Once a week for about 50 miles. Usually it's Saturday night date night, sometimes a cruise night. The car is in storage November through March.
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Unfortunately not too often anymore and because of this it might be used to finance flight lessons and the purchase of a Cessna 152.

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Weather permitting this time of year 2-3 times a week around town. I'd drive it every day if I could - especially after this past long brutal winter.
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In Los Angeles 40 miles per day round trip m-f rain or shine for about six months and before rebuild was a dd for 3 years it was either fix my civic or fix my vette guess which one is parked in backyard.
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So great to hear how geography, age, and life in general affect us all when it comes to seat time. Today was nice and I should have taken her out, but my only errand was in an industrial part of the city so I opted for my truck. Tomm if nice I might take her to the gym.
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I've had my '71 for about 3 months and have put 1200 miles on it. I typically drive it everywhere I go on the weekends (if it isn't raining) and a time or two on weeknight evenings.

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Old 07-08-2014, 10:13 PM
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I've put 1200 miles on mine in the last two years. I need to take it out more, but my shop is about 15 minutes from my house so it makes it a hassle to get over there and get the car, not to mention bringing it back after. But every time I do, worth it!
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This summer, I'm taking the 68 out on weekends, usually just around a few blocks. It's in an inner part of the driveway and easy to get out on the road. It's now under a car cover. As inclement weather approaches, it'll go under a canopy and still under it's car cover. In the canopy location, it's difficult to get it on the driveway onto the street.

I drive it to keep the engine cylinder walls fresh and the rotors clean of rust. There's a lot of speculation about this winter. It's supposed to be an El Ninyo Winter...in which case a lot of rain due to the equatorial Pacific experincing cyclic warming. If so, I'll consider a storage unit for it to keep it dry. Opps...there's some opinion that El Ninyo warming is not very strong and we may have another dry winter.

The car is in great condition...it just needs a new paint job. It was stored from 1985 until about 2008 in a garage, and it has a lot of surface blemishes. I plan on some quotes this summer.
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