classic car

I love it when I see a rare car driven hard. From Pacers to Duesenbergs, there will always be the owner who stashes their car in their perfect, dust-free garage and never drives it. I appreciate the other people. I like cars to be driven because, after all, that's what they are built to do.
At Iola Old Car show last year, I saw a small collection of ultra-rare Cord 812s, Duesenburgs, V-16 Cadillacs, and many other rare gems. From about ten feet they looked like everything else in that section of the show: over-shined and never driven. But as I got closer, I saw the little pockmarks, the scars of the road, some mud on the running boards. I also noticed the sign on the hood of one, a Duesenburg I think, that said it was driven all the way to the the show, which was a total of a couple thousand miles for the trip. These cars I thoroughly enjoyed, not because they were in perfect like-new condition, but because they had an owner who used them for their intended purpose. This is my philosophy now, and will be with the Z when it is done. It should be yours, too, if you have a valuable car. The photo of the daily driver '74 Charger is from a Mopar Cardomain blog.