Oldest Car as Daily Driver
 

If you had the ability to find any car of any age in perfect, as-new condition for use as a daily driver, and the price was right, how far back in age would you go? I probably would go back to the early-Sixties for a 6-cylinder finback, but would be leery of going back any further due to safety concerns. How would you play it?

Ferrari 365GTB/4.

And yes, I would daily it.

Wait, are we trying to be realistic?

My daily driver is a 1993 Miata. Anybody got one older?

Hrm. Context and all that. The NEWEST car in our driveway is Darling Wife's daily driver.... a 1994 Miata.

10-15 years ago, I used a 63 Galaxie, 66 Toronado, 70 Toronado GT, 1950 Packard and a 1970 Cadillac as daily drivers!

I wouldn't go past late 60's, maybe 1970.

1970s at the oldest. Head restraints are a must.

Used to run a 63 Finback as a daily back in the mid 90s. Now fixing up a 78 Porsche 924 as a daily.

83 240D. OK, daily is a stretch since I don't drive anything every day in the city. But definitely "only car."

My 79 Merc TD was a daily driver up until about 1.5 years ago. I sold it to Graplr!

i love you man! 66 and a 70 toro gt. i still have my toro gt engine,has an offy intake with 2 afb's,setting on an engine stand waiting for a body to stick it in.as for my old 66 it's up in the hibbings.

Even though I DD my '74 W114 I feel a lot more comfortable/safe in my '85 W126, so I'd say LATE '70's as the earliest.

I would never go below 1968 since that is when the dual brake systems were first used by everyone.

I blew a brake line on a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville which left me with no brakes at all on a 4,200 pound car. Scary.

What was worse was the car was only five years old.

They don't make 'em like they used to.

Depends on the car -- didn't older Volvos (like 1800ES) have head restraints and 3-pointer belts from the 60s?

Yes, the Olds 455 is a great motor, esp the trick factor lumps.

Some fool hit me back in 2002, so I totaled it out and sold the motor to a 442 collector. The hard to find "GT" trim pieces only got sold off to Toro fanatics. Ended up doing quite well, but it was a nice driver and there were only a few thousand made.

A person could add head restraints and dual brake systems on older cars. Until a few years ago I drove a 71 Dodge Travco motorhome on a regular basis across country.

My '83 300D was daily driver from 2004 until 2011.

Currently, my '89 190E is my daily driver.