Should ultra rare cars be driven in regular traffic?

[flyinlow]

Better to wear out than rust out. Drive em.



Alvin Gore, Barry (the Car Czar) Obama and Nazi Pelosi are trying hard to take them away. Enjoy them while you can.

[Aero426]

Obviously there is a big difference between using a collector car carefully and recklessly.   In any situation, you cannot control all the variables.      Cars can be damaged in transport.   Trailering a car is probably far more dangerous than driving it.   Garages can burn down too.

As to the example of the Turbine, it is very special, but is not the only one out there.   I think it's great to see (and hear) it out in public.   As the custodian of the car, you have to decide what is right.

[68X426]

No one gets to see unicorns anymore, they are all kept hidden away so they can't run with the herd.

Let the Turbines run free!

[XS29J8]

I feel he should drive them as he has the where with all to repair and maintain his fleet. More chance that the collection will be lost in the "BIG ONE" bound to shake California in the near future.......... ..............

Cheers,
Steve

[68charger383]

Jay Leno usually shows up a some local shows around CA. I've seen him at the spring fling show in Van Nuys. He came to that show in a car which had a patton tank engine. Based on that experience, I'd say he does drive these cars around town. You have to remember a million to him is probably like $1000 to you.

I think a car should be used as a car. The crime isn't driving it, its not driving it.   

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[gtx6970]

Having worked for short time in a place that can make about anything if required to do so, I feel drive it. anything and I do mean anything can be fixed

I worked on this car for some time, the lady drives it all the time when time and weather permits. It's worth about 1.5 mil

[FLG]

Id say jay is one of the best people to drive some of these things.

If it does get damaged, you KNOW he has the mulah to fix it.

Lets say one of us owned a rare car. Lets say i owned a superbird...yes id take it out, but not nearly as much as my charger.

Something happens to the charger, im out BIG time, but i can probably fix it or worst comes to worst i can eventually afford a new one.

Lets say now someone gave me a superbird (yea right!!) and i take it out and it gets hit. Well i cant afford to fix a car like that, so its probably getting sold or kept in a garage for a LONG time until i could.

Anything happens to jays cars, he can easily put em back together.

[Arthu®]

Having worked for short time in a place that can make about anything if required to do so, I feel drive it. anything and I do mean anything can be fixed

I worked on this car for some time, the lady drives it all the time when time and weather permits. It's worth about 1.5 mil

Oh nice 6C (I think) very cool that she still drives it a lot. Which year, type, engine, etc is it exactly? Also is the paint old or is it just the pictures? You don't see a lot of pre-war Italians around the show car circuit around here anymore. Probably because well they had their faults, but they are just beautiful!

Arthur

[Ghoste]

Having worked for short time in a place that can make about anything if required to do so, I feel drive it. anything and I do mean anything can be fixed

As do I, but I don't think my opinion has changed one bit.  I guess I see certain vehicles as being placed in a category above and this is one of them.  I'm also one of the minority who think it was wrong for the Ball Stud Hemi to sold to John Arruzza and for him to modify it to his personal tastes and then place it in a private vehicle tobe sold.  Some things just belong in a museum IMO.

[stripedelete]

Will the Chrysler Turbine, or any other car, cure cancer?  If we ever plummet back into to the "Dark Ages" will a Chrysler Airstream lead us out?  Probably not.
If you crushed every collector car in existence today would it affect the "human condition"? Nope.

So drive it, when ever, where ever.

I love my Charger to an absurd extent.  Hell, I love your Charger too.   But at the end of the day, they're all just cars.

Don't lose sight of the big picture and don't hold on to tight.  Drive'm drive'm drive'm........ My    

[SFRT]

yes, but make sure you have insurance!

[bull]

Having worked for short time in a place that can make about anything if required to do so, I feel drive it. anything and I do mean anything can be fixed

As do I, but I don't think my opinion has changed one bit.  I guess I see certain vehicles as being placed in a category above and this is one of them.  I'm also one of the minority who think it was wrong for the Ball Stud Hemi to sold to John Arruzza and for him to modify it to his personal tastes and then place it in a private vehicle tobe sold.  Some things just belong in a museum IMO.

Wow, Ghost. Until now I'd never thought of you as a party-poopin, preservation-nazi killjoy. It's not like he's jumping it and putting it in drift competitions. Yeesh.

[Ghoste]

   I can't help it.  I just keep having this vision of some gang of retards slamming into the back of it or some other tragedy while he's whistling down the LA freeway at 70 mph.  There are a lot of cars that I can't understand their secret seclusion but I just cannot wrap my mind around that one driving around in regular traffic.  He attends the Pebble Concour's each year.  Take it there and drive it in their nostalgia parade, Hell there are all sort of opportunities to drive it.  I just can't see the freeway as being one.
Sorry. 

[elacruze]

Drive, yes.
Regular traffic, no.

[Ponch ®]

I was just reading an article about Jay Leno and his recent acquisition of one of the surviving Turbine Ghia Chryslers.  The article inferred that Jay may drive the car in LA traffic.

He actually did drive it to the Fall Fling show in October. It's about a 10-15 mile straight shot (by freeway) from where he keeps his cars, and it was on a Saturday afternoon, so it's not like he drove it through the 405 freeway during Tuesday rush hour.

Cars are meant to be driven, rare or not. Otherwise you might as well buy a picture of the car. But, like Mike said...it's one thing to take it out for a cruise on a weekend, it's another to use it as a daily/semi-daily driver. Can't live your life based on "what ifs". "What if" I get in an accident? ""What if" the trailer I'm using to take my car to a concourse show gets into some sort of wreck and the car(s) inside it are totaled as a result? "What if" the place where I keep my never driven, never seen the light of day ultra rare care catches on fire (we read about that sort of thing relatively often around here), or floods, or there's an earthquake, or a bolt of lightning..or....?

[68X426]

Otherwise you might as well buy a picture of the car.

Quote of the year! 

[Ghoste]

Yep, but you better buy those pictures while you can because if the car does get hit and it's nailed hard enough, then that's all you ever have.

[FLG]

Yep, but you better buy those pictures while you can because if the car does get hit and it's nailed hard enough, then that's all you ever have.

What if the shop its stored in catches on fire, flood, hurricane, earthquake?

If the thing gets nailed im SURE Jay has the money to fix it.

Also how hard can it get nailed in traffic?? Might actually be a plus!