What is the Most Improper Way You’ve Used Your Vintage Car?

I immediately felt very bad as I discovered this article. I have been using my vintage car only in improper ways.
Using a Fiat 127 from 1972 as a:

daily driver (incl. fieldwork jobs – water, mud, offroading)
people carrier (fully loaded, nose pointing to the sky),
parts hauler (driver seat mounted only – the rest is full of body parts, gearboxes, wheels)
tow car for trailers (I must admit only small sized ones).
highway cruiser (it felt very painful, since it has a very short ratio 4-speed box, it was so bad that I had mounted 5-speed last summer).
During this abuse, the car has been very faithful to me.
She is not jealous, despite that I used her to haul parts for my other currently non-running car (MB W123 240D)

At the end of renovating my bathroom the daily driver decided to pack up. This left me to take all the waste, plasterboard, a cut up bath and old toilet to the rubbish dump in my Porsche 944. I’ve never driven it so slowly and still feel

An S-Class doing what it does best… carting firewood.

On a few occasions, after long nights and many libations, I’ve climbed into the hatch of my pristine black interior rx7 to catch some shut-eye… Waking up in the fetal position, hung over, engulfed in that 80’s car smell is something one must truly experience to appreciate.

Either by sheer luck or some unexplainable car-subconsciousness I managed to not destroy any of the fragile interior panels getting back there or climb in after trampling through a muddy bog. Because College….

I once moved a dresser in my Porsche 944 Turbo. Got some looks when I pulled it out of the trunk, double parked in NYC.

I once hauled three 5gal buckets of driveway sealant on the folded down back seats of my immaculate ’87 Porsche Carrera 3.2. I only put them there because they wouldn’t fit in the trunk – it had two 40 lb bags of asphalt patch in it. Still can’t believe I did that, but the driveway looks beautiful.

I wanted to try my hand at making a film. I purchased my father-in-laws black ’69 Corvette Stingray that had been sitting for 20 years for my villain car. Even thought it had only seen about 50 road miles in those 20 years it fired right up and ran respectably. Being on a budget I did very little to it other than upgrade to power breaks and put new tires on it. It was a ghost car of sorts in the film so my driver had to drive it with all the windows completely blacked out save the front, dressed in all black, a black veil over his face in a black Corvette with no AC in about 105 degree heat outside. It was about 130 in the car. The suspension was pretty much clapped out in the rear but that didn’t stop us from driving it at questionable speeds within inches of my other friends pristine ’84 911 (the hapless victim car) with very little in the way of visibility in the Stingray. There were a lot of cattle guards on the road we were filming on and every time we bombed over one I thought the car was going to shake apart. Despite a few heat related issues leaving me waiting on the side of the road for things to cool down and the sketchy condition of the car we were beating on and she held up well for the 5 day shoot and the 2 hour drive there and home every day. It was great fun.

My 1967 VW Camper was my daily driver for over ten years and in 2012 alone I put 14,000 miles on it (mostly Bay Area commuting). Is that improper use? Not to me…it was my only car at the time! I love driving it, so even if it was to work and back, it was being used properly.

Now, taking it on a yearly Northern California backroads adventure with a bunch of other early buses where we’d bomb down trails, tear through creek crossings, and generally do stuff you wouldn’t expect a 45+ year old bus could do…well, you might be able to call that improper, but it’s a freakin’ bad ass time!