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How often do you drive your Charger?

Started by b5blue, April 17, 2025, 01:30:11 PM

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b5blue

  I'm at least once a month but lately once or twice a week. My Dakota takes the abuse runs like Home Depot or Walmart. Non ethanol 89OCT solved the gas/starting issues.   

Dave Kanofsky

Whenever available time, safe destination, and good weather align.
Driving it is the best part of owning it!  :2thumbs:
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lloyd3

"Whenever available time, safe destination, and good weather align."

What he said.

Also, when I feel like it, when I need a good 440 fix, when I need to remember something about being 16 again and the world was opening up to me.  Remembering true "freedom" and the unbridled promise of the open road ahead of me, of great adventures yet to come, of beautiful girls, sunny days, good friends, and good times.

Everytime I pull the cover off of it, it reminds me of all these things.

GreatOne34

Make an effort to do at least once a week, hopefully more. Like has been said, just great to get out there and enjoy the car as it was meant to be. All the added stuff, kids wanting to come with dad, folks honking / waving, and 20-30 minutes at the gas station chatting about the car are all a plus in my book

John_Kunkel


Some old car owners are criticized for not driving their old cars very often...what if your old car collection numbers more than one or two?
Pardon me but my karma just ran over your dogma.

b5blue


moparstuart

usually drive a muscle car once a week.   The birdible is what i have at home right now  .  The charger is in remote storage but ill trade them out again mid summer   
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Dino

I rotate 3 cars with the Charger seeing the most road time currently. Rain or shine. I drove it with snow down but clear roads. With EFI it drives the same no matter the weather.
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375instroke

Sometimes my '69 Charger needs work, so I got another '69 Charger to drive while I'm working on my '69 Charger.

doctor4766

Not very often at the moment, and we are halfway through autumn, some of the best driving weather here.
Been waiting on a suspension shop that I used on my old Charger to get back to me on rebuilding the front end.
These guys are good, but not easy to get things happening.
The car is all over the place on the road, especially if I've had the front wheels off the ground and it's not settling
Gotta love a '69

Todd Wilson

Once or twice every decade it seems..................


Todd

cdr

I drive it all the time, cold ac & OD trans for the win
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b5blue

Oh yea A/C in Fla is a biggie, I sold my 6BBL to get A/c and aluminum heads.  :2thumbs:

Kern Dog

Quote from: John_Kunkel on April 18, 2025, 12:17:03 PMSome old car owners are criticized for not driving their old cars very often...what if your old car collection numbers more than one or two?

I have more than one classic car. I admit that I don't drive them as much as I could.
Like others, I fall into the comfort and convenience of the later model stuff I have.
It cracks me up though to use the term late model when my newest vehicle is 18 model years old!
Trucks though, man....I drove the pickup for years for work and the utility of them can be hard to beat. The capability to haul things is often calling me.....
The Charger though?
I really should drive it more. Nobody lives forever and time is limited. Too much time has been spent working on the projects and not enough time is spent driving them.

Kern Dog

With a 900 mile road trip planned for this week, it makes sense to take the car out a few times to see if anything falls off. Nothing did.
As always, the experience of driving a rumbling, vibrating hot rod with the smell of exhaust flowing through pipes without catalytic converters is just intoxicating. The feel of the shifter, the sounds of the reverberating tones from the tailpipes and the wind whistling through the vent window frames just cannot be duplicated by any late model car.


Mike DC

QuoteTrucks though, man....I drove the pickup for years for work and the utility of them can be hard to beat. The capability to haul things is often calling me.....

Hence the popularity of El Caminos & Rancheros.  Imagine having the front half of a Charger + a pickup bed on the back. 

I'm kinda surprised we haven't seen a few 4dr Coronets & wagons reskinned as Chargers.  We've seen several ragtop convertibles redone as Chargers but people don't build other B-body variants.  And these days 4dr cars (and trucks) don't have the uncool stigma they used to.       

Kern Dog

I've never been much of a fan of the Ranchero or El Camino.
I can see the utility, they ride like a car but have some hauling capability.

John_Kunkel

Quote from: Mike DC on Today at 03:37:03 AM
QuoteTrucks though, man....I drove the pickup for years for work and the utility of them can be hard to beat. The capability to haul things is often calling me.....

Hence the popularity of El Caminos & Rancheros.  Imagine having the front half of a Charger + a pickup bed on the back. 

   

I haven't seen a Charger (other than the LX) made into a pickup but here are a couple of other Mopars done so.
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Pardon me but my karma just ran over your dogma.