[Blown353]

I'm in CA, so typically excellent weather.

I drive my car every day if I have the time and the roads are dry if I don't have it torn apart to fix/add/mod something. This roughly translates to 4-5 days a week.

I don't drive when the roads are wet, mostly for safety reasons-- lots of people have no clue how to drive safely in the rain, I don't want to risk a loss of traction incident, and mostly because I have no wipers-- my air filter is where my wiper motor used to be. Also because I hate cleaning up a painted and semi-detailed undercarriage, and worst of all, cleaning baked-on water stains off the headers. If I get stuck in the rain I can deal with it but I won't willingly take it out into inclement weather.

I'm going to paint the car this year and will NOT be cutting any corners, and you bet I'm still going to drive it as often and as hard as I do now. Rock chips happen, you have to learn to live with this. I'm also going to yank the body and detail the frame/box it and fab a 3-link rear setup, but I'm probably going to do the nice looking and durable spray on bedliner treatment to the floorpans and powdercoat the frame in a shade that will match the body; down the road all I have to do is pressure wash it and it will look new. I want clean yet simple and functional on the bottom.

Like Scott, I take my car nearly anywhere as long as I don't have to leave it unattended or out of sight for any decent amount of time. Also like he said-- I like working on them almost as much, maybe more than driving them. If I ran out of stuff to do on the car I might sell it out of boredom. This is why I replace perfectly good components or take something apart to change it a little. Keeps me occupied.

Troy