How often do you drive your Fox? (besides DD people)

Stever89 · Jul 6, 2011

No AC so if it's cool enough I'll jump in it after coming home from work. Other than that, at least once a weekend.

I live in a rural area and I take it "around the block" which is about 4 miles of country roads.

skunk21 · Jul 6, 2011

A few times a week when the weather is nice, try to hit a couple of charity car shows to support them and have some fun. I have another weekend warrior and bike so I have to squeeze them in also which is tougher than it sounds, one of them sits longer than I would like.

Mintsick · Jul 6, 2011

NikwoaC said:
I don't see the sense in having a toy car and not driving it. My philosophy is "if the sun's shining, it's what I'm driving". I don't drive it in the rain or snow, but other than that I absolutely drive the dog piss out of my car. I easily put more miles on the Stang in the summer time than I do my '06 Fusion. I've even contemplated putting a bike rack on the Mustang so I can drive it on days that I want to mountain bike after work.

This totally +1.

As long as my stang is in running order I try to drive it as much as possible March - first snowfall. I won't take it on days I know it's going to rain or if it's already raining before I head off to work...then again it's not a big deal if it gets wet to me either (it just doesn't have inner fender liners currently). For all the time, effort, and money I put into the thing it would be a complete waste if it sat in a garage most of it's life.

I haven't driven my true DD maxima in over 2 weeks, even without working a/c in the stang!

Gearbanger 101 · Jul 6, 2011

Haven't been driving it a lot. It's an old car. I have my truck if I want a daily.

I got it in under the Silver Wheels policy (which is awesome because it's costing me less than $200/year to insure). So I don't mind that it's parked in my garage a lot of the time, when the cost of insuring it reflects the usage.

...but that means no daily driving, no to and from work and no racing. So I pretty much just take it out on nice days, or to the local cruise night. Which is fine. That's pretty much all the driving I was doing with my last summer car for the last 3-years, but paying 6X as much for the insurance.

MAC'n89Blckstng · Jul 6, 2011

i have a boat, so that takes up alot of my free time, come fall i will get new slicks an start beatin her up again!

srtthis · Jul 6, 2011

think ive put 100 miles on it this year... maybe less

FastDriver · Jul 6, 2011

I can't believe how little some of you drive them. I can't because I'm stationed overseas, and also deployed, but when I'm at home, I drive it as often as possible. I'm going to wear mine out a few times over before I wreck it and start over again... that's the plan anyway. It's a car to be enjoyed.

LarsD · Jul 6, 2011

I'm with FD. I've put about 14K on mine since I got it in March 08. I thought it was more, but I forgot that I didn't drive it very much the first year I had it.

Boosted92LX · Jul 6, 2011

I drive mine as much as I can, which lately has worked out to about once or twice a week. I was driving it to work on Fridays, but the environment where I work is ridiculously corrosive, so I'm thinking I'm going to stop. All of the company trucks there rust out in a few years. It's not worth losing my car. If I haven't been in the heat all day long when I get in, I'll pull it out of the garage and put 5 or 6 miles on it. Weekends I let 'er rip!

93 teal terror · Jul 6, 2011

Mine is usually off and on. I'll typically DD it for a few weeks, then fix whatever new thing is broken or needs to be replaced on it haha

Gearbanger 101 · Jul 6, 2011

93 teal terror said:
Mine is usually off and on. I'll typically DD it for a few weeks, then fix whatever new thing is broken or needs to be replaced on it haha

Ahhh yes. The realities of owning a Fox body.

Shakerhood · Jul 6, 2011

Mine is for pleasure drives when it is nice outside, I probably put 2 or 3 thousand miles on it a year.

BlownRed5oh · Jul 7, 2011

on weekends if it is nice!(sadly not enough!)

mustanglx91 · Jul 7, 2011

1 or 2 days a week when its nice for about 8 months out of the year. Comes out to be about 3000 miles a years.

Mustang5L5 · Jul 7, 2011

I'm around 500 miles in the last 7 years. Last time I drove it was last October.

I start it up, drive it around the parking lot where I store it, but that's about it. If I had a house with a garage, I would pull the motor and spend a year or so building a very nice engine setup . Right now, I can't do it though.

Car has sentimental value, so I'll never sell it. But as I have gotten older, different things have taken priority.

Plus, when the weekend shows up, I tend to go golfing

Gearbanger 101 · Jul 7, 2011

Mustang5L5 said:
If I had a house with a garage, I would pull the motor and spend a year or so building a very nice engine setup . Right now, I can't do it though.

You've got a living room don't you? A built engine in the family room would make a great conversation piece.

Mustang5L5 · Jul 7, 2011

Gearbanger 101 said:
You've got a living room don't you? A built engine in the family room would make a great conversation piece.

But the engine stand might mess up the hardwoods floors in my condo.

Would be interesting to try to take it into the elevator though.

Ozz · Jul 7, 2011

Mustang5L5 said:
But the engine stand might mess up the hardwoods floors in my condo.

Get a blanket

Mustang5L5 said:
Would be interesting to try to take it into the elevator though.

Video required, if attempted

Boosted92LX · Jul 7, 2011

Mustang5L5 said:
I'm around 500 miles in the last 7 years. Last time I drove it was last October.

I start it up, drive it around the parking lot where I store it, but that's about it. If I had a house with a garage, I would pull the motor and spend a year or so building a very nice engine setup . Right now, I can't do it though.

Car has sentimental value, so I'll never sell it. But as I have gotten older, different things have taken priority.

Plus, when the weekend shows up, I tend to go golfing

Not trying to tell a man about his business, But if my home limited me from the things I liked doing, I'm quite sure I'd sell it and move somewhere that met my needs!

Oh, wait, I did that...

90mustangGT · Jul 7, 2011

Mustang5L5 said:
I'm around 500 miles in the last 7 years. Last time I drove it was last October.

I start it up, drive it around the parking lot where I store it, but that's about it. If I had a house with a garage, I would pull the motor and spend a year or so building a very nice engine setup . Right now, I can't do it though.

Car has sentimental value, so I'll never sell it. But as I have gotten older, different things have taken priority.

Plus, when the weekend shows up, I tend to go golfing

You and me both, we are getting OLD. It was just a different time and era back then. Then on top of that life comes and gets in the way. Maybe when we are old men we'll drive our old mustangs out to meets and reminence about the good ole days.

How often do you drive your Fox? (besides DD people)

Stever89

skunk21

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Mintsick

Gearbanger 101

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MAC'n89Blckstng

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srtthis

the guy doing it does every local racers rear end

FastDriver

I was uncomfortably high & wearing a helmet

LarsD

Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

93 teal terror

Gearbanger 101

Straight Outta Locash

Shakerhood

BlownRed5oh

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mustanglx91

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Mustang5L5

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

Gearbanger 101

Straight Outta Locash

Mustang5L5

That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

Ozz

I think I have a problem here.

Boosted92LX

It's only an inch or two. What's the big deal?

90mustangGT

I felt sorry for girls because

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