Misty loves the new Bonneville I got her (especially the mpg), and since my commute is only about 2-miles each way, I've decided to retire the Custom Cruiser and drive the Denali as my daily commuter/kid hauler. SO the OCC will no longer be lugging 5 kids to three schools every morning, and then sitting in the Dell parking lot roasting in the heat all summer and being the recipient of careless Honda-owner door-dings. Instead it'll sit clean and cool in shadows of my garage with the GTO, and be used on special trips and for the cruise-in. The OCC has 68K miles on it now. That's 10K since I bought it last summer. Too much too fast. The Denali has 125K on it and I know as much as I like it I'll be selling it in a few years for a newer Burb, so putting miles on it does not matter. With my short commute, a tank of gas lasts two weeks in the Denali. I can handle that. I've driven the Denali daily since coming back from my road trip...it proved itself on that run, not one issue! Only had the wagon out once since I got back home, and all I could think was how NICE that wagon is...how clean and new it feels, and how I want to keep it forever.....or at least until Tim wants to sell his 6-spd Roady. So that's the latest. Feel again like a conformist as I can no longer spot my vehicle easily from the 3rd floor of my office, but if I need to stand out I'll drive the rusty K5 Blazer on some days...or the X-11. Ha! Take care all. SWAMPED with work, they moved me from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and I have been buried since getting home. Hope you all are doing well! - Texas Mike!
Well at least you have a place to safely store your Olds! I feel the same way when it comes to my Vista Cruiser. I got it with 59K and now its up to 63K. Yeah sure whats a mere 4K miles, but thats more than it has gone in the past 10 years and on a 36 year old car. You did the right thing and you will be able to enjoy it and drive it when you want to and not have to worry about it!
Naw I still have the carport in the side yard. Just need to move the boat into the back yard to free up another covered spot for the cars!
If you only use the OCC to go to cruise-ins maybe you can get cheap collector vehicle insurance on it now? How about historical plates? I have to wait until my car is 25 years old to get historical plates and go through one more E-check before my OCC is free in Ohio. I'll probably sell it before that though, I want to get one of those Poncho Azteks. You need to get a few lifts so you can store twice as many cars in the same square footage. Makes a garage twice as big if you have the ceiling height. A lot of old gas stations had the lifts outside too You can park two cars in a standard eight foot ceiling height garage with a lift if you have very short in height cars. I have a four poster and my OCC lives underneath my GTO, the goat just drips a little oil on the Olds every so often to let her know who's boss.
I think he's selling the Denali, not the OCC... But honestly, I don't understand trying to keep mileage down... Either you enjoy it or you don't. It's either practical or it isn't. Me? I want to put as many miles on mine before I die that I possibly can. If I can hit 100,000 (of me behind the wheel), I'll be thrilled. I'm never going to make any money on the car and that was never my intent. But that's the beauty of this hobby, everybody is a little different. I'm just glad to hear you have the means to take care of it. It's the ones rotting on the side of the house or in a field that the owner will never sell and it finally tunrs to rust that is so annoying...
I love my OCC, but think it's silly to let the kids climb all over it and let if roast in the the office parking lot when I have a used Denali that is nice but not "special" like the Olds wagon is. Let the kids climb all over it...I'll trade it in a few years. I'll still drive the Olds for pleasure, to the local cruise-ins and shows, and am thinking of taking it down to Corpus Christi next month to drive on the beach during our vacation. Mainly the wagon will be safe and shaded in the garage, and saved for fun trips and such. That's my plan. I will say it's hard to walk past the wagon every morning and get into the truck. The wagon's seats are softer and it rides smoother than the GMC.
