Your Daily driver?

[Daron65]

Im in the process of finishing my 71 c20, and plan on using it as my occasional (because of snowy winters here) daily driver.

Just wondoring who all uses a good ole truck as their daily driver? And what it is?

Pics of mine. (Once i finish the heat) lol

[The Rocknrod]

Plan on puttin a canvas wagon cover on the back?

[truckster]

In good weather my daily is my 95 Z28 convertible. When it's cold and wet I drive my 2002 Yukon. My 72 Blazer used to be my daily driver, and once it's back on the road it will be my daily driver again.

[BAD1916]

My daily is a 1971 gmc. 454 with 400 trans. It’s dependable and versatile enough for the family and home improvement projects. I can’t figure out why the pic keeps coming out sideways or upside down but you can tell what it is😎

[Steeveedee]

I have a 2016 Kia Forte for piddling around town. The truck is for pulling the travel trailer, moving, and carrying building supplies.

[special-K]

My daily driver is a '95 K2500 Suburban. It does everything I need but loves the gas. I'd like to find a gas miser. When the salt is clean off the roads I run my '72 K2500 for work and play.

[Steeveedee]

Guy down the street from me has a 1 ton Dodge diesel truck. When fuel started getting stupid expensive, he went to trade it in and was offered a stupid low price. So he kept it and bought a couple of old Couriers or some such, which he uses for most of the little stuff. He does high-end cabinets- building and installation, along with custom built in furniture. When a batch of cabinets gets delivered he and his brother use their big trucks (brother has a raised 1 ton Jimmy). When you don't need to move the big stuff, a little puddle jumper just might be the ticket.

[FleetsidePaul]

I guess it would be my 2006 C6 Corvette. I love that car. It has a hatchback and you'd be surprised how much I can fit in back. And it'll tear up the canyon road that goes to my house. Very handy.



Built Chevy tough. I don't baby it.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by Steeveedee

Guy down the street from me has a 1 ton Dodge diesel truck. When fuel started getting stupid expensive, he went to trade it in and was offered a stupid low price. So he kept it and bought a couple of old Couriers or some such, which he uses for most of the little stuff. He does high-end cabinets- building and installation, along with custom built in furniture. When a batch of cabinets gets delivered he and his brother use their big trucks (brother has a raised 1 ton Jimmy). When you don't need to move the big stuff, a little puddle jumper just might be the ticket.

That's what I need, a 4 banger manual mini-truck. My work is 25-40 miles down the road. For about 25 years I was a siding contractor and needed no less than a 3/4t truck with 8' bed and 12' ladder racks. I also preferred utility beds and 4wd. I was also busy with work all the time and those trucks paid for their own fuel easily. Gotta spend money to make money. But now I'm slowed down on work and often only need what would fit in an S10 or Colorado bed. I only need a ladder and/or the walkboards occasionally. Also not doing new construction and often can leave tools at the residence. For lumber I have a utility trailer.

[Boog]

You know a small truck with a flatbed could be handy. Maybe locate one with a wrecked/trashed stock bed and build a flatbed for it. You ARE good with wood.

[Palf70Step]

Not super old, but my daily is Herb, my 98 Dodge Ram. Soon as I get the 81 running again, it will be driven probably as much as Herb.

[1976gmc20]

Don't commute (retired, now - worked from home before) so "daily driver" is somewhat ambiguous.

In the summer/fall when/if the roads are dry, we drive the 2006 Chevy HHR if we are going to town or farther. Don't drive it around our rural neighborhood anymore unless we are going out to the highway. Pretty good little car, actually. Sometimes I wish it was AWD but if it was then we probably would have destroyed it by now.

In the winter and/or when the roads are snowy/icy/muddy, or for just running around the neighborhood any time of year, we drive the 1988 Jeep Cherokee. Runs great and goes like a mountain goat, but there's just too many little "jeep things" for me to want to trust it on a long trip.

And my 1989 K1500 xcab long bed is my "daily driver" for any sort of work related thing like cutting/hauling wood or working on fences, on any day that I actually get out and do something like that.

[morepwr]

I split up the daily duties between my 91 C1500 and my 67 C10

[rusty76]

I daily my 07 Colorado. Nothing fancy. Just a plain white base model. No power windows, no carpet, no extended cab or crew cab. Four cylinder and an automatic perfect daily driver. Easy on gas and will haul pretty much anything I need. I can get real close 30 mpg out of it. Cheap to operate. Shame the automakers quit making small trucks. Sucks. In a few years when gas prices go up I’ll still be driving my toaster.

[kipps]

My daily at the moment, is a 1981 f-150. 300 I-6, granny four-speed, 2wd, no A/C. For a cheap, trouble-free truck, it's hard to beat that combo.

I'm still hoping to get to use my '87 4wd chevy before the winter is out, though. It's frustrating having to plan around 2wd; can only get firewood in on frozen mornings, can't set up a corral-panel feeding/AI breeding station in certain remote fields, etc.

[mcmlxix]

I daily drove my 67 Chevelle for 3 years....



.. a few years after that I daily drove the Blazer for almost 2 years before starting the frame off...

[special-K]

Originally Posted by 1976gmc20

In the summer/fall when/if the roads are dry, we drive the 2006 Chevy HHR if we are going to town or farther. Don't drive it around our rural neighborhood anymore unless we are going out to the highway. Pretty good little car, actually. Sometimes I wish it was AWD but if it was then we probably would have destroyed it by now.

One of those panels is one option I've considered for a downsized work and play gas miser. I only use vehicles that can do both. Haven't had a car since I sold my '63 Riviera 20+ years ago. A truck can do what a car can but a car can't do what a truck can. I love old trucks, so if I was to expand my fleet a car still loses out. An El Camino is the closest thing to a car I'd own.

[PGSigns]

I drive my 66 every day. 12 to 15,000 miles a year.
Jimmy

[mcmlxix]

Originally Posted by special-K

One of those panels is one option I've considered for a downsized work and play gas miser. I only use vehicles that can do both. Haven't had a car since I sold my '63 Riviera 20+ years ago. A truck can do what a car can but a car can't do what a truck can. I love old trucks, so if I was to expand my fleet a car still loses out. An El Camino is the closest thing to a car I'd own.

How about a Nova (but make it a wagon) with LGT 2.0t and 6 speed manual swap...

https://youtu.be/xi29IqTTOwE

[flashed]

I have a couple of dailys , my 97 3/4 ton 4x4 Chevy truck , extended cab with camper top , like Tim's , it likes the gas . And my recently purchased 79 Bonanza Big 10 with 61,000 miles on it . Love them both , if Im trailering its the 3/4 ton ,if Im just rambling its the 79 .

[1976gmc20]

Originally Posted by special-K

One of those panels is one option I've considered for a downsized work and play gas miser. I only use vehicles that can do both. Haven't had a car since I sold my '63 Riviera 20+ years ago. A truck can do what a car can but a car can't do what a truck can. I love old trucks, so if I was to expand my fleet a car still loses out. An El Camino is the closest thing to a car I'd own.

The only reason we got the little red "wagon" was to save on gas. At the time I was having to go to Seattle area fairly regularly for work and the company would pay mileage or airfare but I preferred driving and actually made money (not counting wear and tear) on the mileage. With the flight connections through Portland I could almost drive there in the same time and on my own schedule, and take along whatever I wanted By the time my wife could take me to the airport early and go through all that stuff, I could be three hours down the road in the right direction. And if I flew, the company didn't pay for 240 miles of driving for two round trips to the airport.

That was in 2008, and I only made one more trip

The HHR is nice because it gets about 30 mpg and you can fold the back seat flat and level with the rear cargo deck. Though small it does pretty good for hauling groceries and 50 pound sacks of animal feed. We almost never use the back seat. But the county has for years now been industriously scraping all of the gravel off the road and into the ditches, so our place is pretty much unreachable now without a 4wd if it is even somewhat wet. I did swap the tires/wheels from the damn factory 215/50r17 to 205/65r15 which helps a lot, but still I hate to get the underside so muddy because it sits so low and is so hard to clean up. A few years ago we ruined a tire in the winter because of ice and frozen mud buildup under the fenders. It rasped the inside edge of the tread right down to the steel wires.

The only "repairs" in 120K miles have been a VVT solenoid ($50 & 30 minutes) and electric fuel pump ($600!); everything else has been tires and brakes and struts and tie rod joints, most of which were due to our bad roads.

[weq92f]

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Mine is an '07 BMW that I've been driving now for nearly 11 years.

When it is not running or not running good enough to get me where I want to go... I drive the '67 C10.

Take today for example...the Bimmer is getting a new radiator and hoses...so the truck will be the DD until that's done...and I can take my time with it.

-klb

[Greg58]

I drive a 2013 Ford Taurus Police interceptor. It is a retired SD State Patrol car. It has AWD, Ecoboost 3.5 365hp, handles great, very sure footed and quick.
Gets 21 mpg consistently, plus it was cheap. Basically it is a poor man's SHO for 1/4 the money. Gets me to work always.

Greg

[Jrainman]

my 68 c10 has been daily driven for about 4 yrs now

[Daron65]

Originally Posted by Jrainman

my 68 c10 has been daily driven for about 4 yrs now

Thats awesome. From what I know about that area, you get a good amount of snow.