What is the Best Classic Car to Daily Drive?

Since I passed my driving test! For the last 16 years I ran 2 Alfetta GTV6’s. The first for 13 years, complete with tow bar for my trailer so I could pick up other GTV’s for my business. It had 95k miles on when I bought her, I took this to 250k by the time I regretfully broke her up for spares. The next one I had for 3 years, then sold as a second child arrived and replaced it with my 1982 Alfa Romeo Giulietta which I converted to the running gear of a 3.0 75 (Milano).
As a concession to modern luxuries I have fitted A/C which makes her very useable all year round.
I have no intention of running anything other than a classic daily.

Please do not forget the tought and beautiful Mercedes 230.6 six in line. It is my daily driver since 1996.

I would drive my Alfa 1750 GTV that I’ve been driving (daily driver for 40 years) since 1969 a lot more often but there are so many crazies driving nowadays who don’t know how to drive, …lot’s of crazy accidents…while texting, some running red lights and stop signs, etc…, I can’t risk it. Also, I’ve even heard some Alfas are getting stolen. A real shame. I love driving my Alfa around LA. Have to drive on PCH and canyons from now on and even that’s dicy. Anyone feel like me Y/N?

I only drive classics daily. ’89 Volvo 240, ’83 BMW 320i, ’87 BMW 635csi. ’88 Alfa Romeo Spider. Love them all.

Triumph TR4A. Bought as a kid in 1979. Restored 3 times from as wreck. Passed over in favour of new sports cars for 25 years and then rediscovered. Now driven daily, and properly!

Livin’ in Milano, Italy, there’s no way to drive old cars every day. I’d like to, at least with my Alfa Romeo Giulia TI, but the stupid so called “anti pollution regulation” says NO! The use of the old cars is forbidden from 07:00 in the morning, to 07:30 in the evening, monday to friday! This is the reason why I moved the Alfa in the garage of my parents house, down in Calabria, southern Italy. It’s been driven for almost 30 days a year, and this is very sad. I keep drivin’ the ’58 Bel Air and the ’72 Mustang CVT, at night and during the weekends. Even though I don’t really care about the aforementioned pollution regulaton, I’m forced to drive a modern thing, with all the electronic gimmicks, even ’cause there’s no respect for old cars here. Cities like Milano are full of envious people, and they will leave some “presents” on your car, if they have the chance to. For the rest, I think using an old car every day is possible, and funny! No worries about the lack of modern conveniences, if you keep in mind wath you’re drivin!

A couple of French classics that are dependable everyday classics are the Peugeot 504 and maybe surprisingly to those not really familiar with them, a Citroen D Special or DS21/23. Both options are capable of huge mileages, are comfortable over short and long journeys.

The D along with the Volvo Amazons were popular everyday classics in the Netherlands.

Not that long ago, I drove my 1965 V8, four-speed Mustang Fastback for two years as my only car. I finally got sick of shifting all the time in Northern Virginia traffic. I then changed to a 1966 Ford Fairlane two-door hardtop that I drove for three years as my only vehicle. No A/C, but it had power steering and an automatic. It was very comfortable and had an awesome heater after I rebuilt it. Now I’m spoiled and drive a Range Rover Sport Supercharged. I drove those old cars because I wanted to drive somethings stylish and inexpensive. Old cars CAN be reliable as daily drivers, but they require more effort to do so.

I’ve been daily driving a 1976 Mercedes 200/8 for the last five years and it has been an absolute champ. It’s never let me down, it’s just as happy pooting around town as it is haring ’round the twisties.

I second the comments on the 105. I don’t get to daily it but I do drive mine as often as I can. I fell so in love with the 105 driving experience that I hardly turned to my C6 vette once I got the GTV on the road. After awhile it just did not make sense to keep the Vette so I sold it. Adding a 64 Riviera to the collection this week. Long live the classics.

Well–for 15 years I only drove old Alfas. I’ve owned over 30 and found Alfetta sedan, GTV6, Milano, GTV and Spider to all be quite useful. Living in the Boston area, shelving the car for the winter is mandatory. As 15 more years years went by, new cars or company cars(Audi) became the daily drivers. On a recent “staycation” I made a point to drive some older stuff in my garage. I took my 74 Fulvia from Boston to mid Cape Cod and the next day my 61 Giulietta Spider to Maine( where I did turn back after experiencing heavy rain). While my 73 GTV sits a bit more than I would like and part of that is due to too many modifications, that car is big fun! If I lived in a temperate climate, old cars would be the daily norm for me.

I daily drove, as long as there was no snow on the ground, my ’72 BGT for a little over two years. When my commute began to include a major interstate, it was no longer prudent to do so. I also daily drove my ’83 Toyota Land Cruiser BJ60 for about a year.

Well, I drive a ’79 Porsche 924 as daily. And it’s lovely in every way. Still a classic in many ways, but with a gentle modern touch and at a price point where a scuff won’t make you cry.

But I also have a thing for those GTV’s, maybe as a family car…?

1965-66 Mustang. As a daily driver reliability, practicality and cost & ease of maintenance have to be important considerations.
The early Mustangs have always been pretty simple cars, even when new there was nothing cutting edge about them. They just got the styling right.
Parts supply is incredible. You could build an entirely new car today (yes, even the body shells are being reproduced).
Cost to maintain and repair is laughably cheap by modern car standards.
They were always practical cars with plenty of space. Most of the original powerplants can easily keep up with modern traffic. Power steering and air-con were common options when new. Ford built over a million of them in two & a half years so the problems that come with rarity certainly don’t apply, and there’re plenty of original examples still available if Shelby stripes and fat tyres aren’t your thing.