Do you drive your Maverick/Comet as a daily driver?

2. Yes, I own more than one Maverick/Comet, and one of them is a daily driver.

And honestly getting 26mpg city I wouldn't want to drive anything else...

 

When complete I will drive mine. No sence have and older car and keeping it locked in a garage. I drive mine in the rain it's only water, I will not drive it in the snow too many rocks and road salt.

 

I have been driving my '69.5 daily since December. The suspension was too worn out to really put any serious mileage on it, I put about 1,200 miles on it driving back and forth to work and around town. Currently, it is in North Carolina at my grandparents house up on jackstands with all the suspension stripped off. Will probably be 3 or 4 more weekends of work to have it back on the road, and then I will be driving the hell out of it.

My brother is driving the '72 now. It' has 30,000 some odd miles on it since January of '06, 26,000 of which, I put on it.

My '74 Grabber still sits wrecked. I put 10,982 miles on it in 7 months in 2005. I've been working on it every now and then when I feel like it.

 

My car is my daily driver.. it really sucked when I had problems earlier last month and had to take the bus.. but hey! Thats what having an old car is about.

 

All three of ours are "daily drivers" the problem is that we can't really drive them all daily. We do drive them all, my wife's gets driven the most, then mine and the 72 get driven the least. I think we are going to put that one up for sale this summer. I want to do some work on it so that it gets rebuilt or hot-rodded and not used for parts. It is a great little car.
Paul

 

I drive it on good and dry days whenever I can.

 

nice days, cruise and car shows NO rain

 

When Done I Will Drive Most Of The Time Hope Very Soon God Willing

 

Mine fits in the under construction category. Have only had it a month or so. It needs a valve job and gas tank drained/sealed before I can drive it.
I pulled the fuel line off the carb and pumped some of the gas into a beer bottle. Looked like Michelob dark Grabber I6.

Plan to drive it as main driver (good mpg and look cool too) but when it's hot I'll drive my van with AC. I mean it gets hot here. Averages over 100 july and august, maybe longer. Record 122. No snow here to speak of, so not an issue.

Plan to drive while restoring/modifying.

 

Definetly a Daily Driver 56 Miles per day round trip to work and back home. Have put a little under 8,000 miles on it since I bought it in Late April, early May.....

Funny thing was I flew to Florida to buy it and the guy picked me up from the Airport and drove me back to his house to make the deal and sign the papers. He said he had just filled it up on the way to the airport but since the gas gauge didn't work I wanted to top the tank off before I hit the road. I pulled in the Gas Station that was around the corner from his house and just before leaving the Gas pump I wanted to write down the mileage and when I checked the Odometer read 01,666.6 miles hahaha (True Story) It now reads a little over 10,000 miles, and is running strong

 

My Comet is the only car i drive. I parked the Cherokee for it.
The wife owns a Windstar but if I drive, it's in the Comet.

 

I drive my Maverick daily. I love the comments and looks I get while driving it.