How often do you drive your Charger?

[Mike DC]

Yeah, meeting people can be great.
Sometimes, it can be LESS than great. We all have dealt with the guy that had one just like it but it was orange, and a four door but also a Ford.

You know that guy too? The one who had the '68 Challenger with the 427 Hemi? 

[Dino]

I drove it to work today and took a 2 hour round trip after. I stopped once for gas and 5 people complimented the car and asked questions. I do enjoy that. The damn thing needs more gears though! 

[INTMD8]

Yeah, meeting people can be great.
Sometimes, it can be LESS than great. We all have dealt with the guy that had one just like it but it was orange, and a four door but also a Ford.

Proof I've never had a unique experience. "Had one just like that" (a 74 Maverick sedan)

[timmycharger]

I drive mine as often as possible, took it through the drive through this past weekend 

[lloyd3]

It's not as much fun when it gets hot here.  More of a Spring and Fall ride these days, sadly.  I had been taking it to lunch with a buddy lately but it's just too-hot most days. 

[doctor4766]

I drive mine as often as possible, took it through the drive through this past weekend 

Your Maccas drive throughs have to got to be bigger than we have in Oz.
I've tried to negotiate 2 of them in my Charger and there's barely enough room for the car to fit.
I tend to just get out and walk in these days instead of risking hitting the sides.
The typical large Australian car here was more what you'd call mid-sized compared to your full-size cars back in the day.
Now we're beginning to see a lot of Rams, Silverados and Tundras on the road, since our local car industry is non existent.
I'm guessing that unless KFC and the like start building bigger drive throughs, more customers will be walking in instead.

[will]

Hopefully this weekend. Trying to iron out a temperature issue. Pulled the aluminum shroud thing that my electric fans mounted to and zip tied the fans to the radiator. I also put a flow Kooler water pump in. Fingers crossed...

[Kern Dog]

I had this out yesterday...



I picked up a buddy that left his Coronet at the shop for an A/C service.



We had one stop on the way back to my house where we were going to work on a couple of cars.
I left a parking lot, got halfway to the point where I usually shift to 2nd and FLOORED it...I ran it up to 6500, lifted and hit second....Floored again and shifted at 6500 again.
He said something like...." My car is too damned slow!"
His car is not slow. His 440 rocks pretty damned good. I drove it a couple years ago.
It wasn't my intention to show him up, I was just playing around. He started talking about getting a bigger cam, maybe pulling the engine to add a stoker crank, etc.
That cracked me up.

[lloyd3]

If the weather cooperates I take mine to lunch occasionally here (it does cut-down on my drinking tho...Margaritas and 4-gears you know). Normally it's too-damn hot in July/August here for a big block with no AC, made worse by the ever-more shitty traffic here (Denver is a mess anymore, why do all the Californians come here when they leave the coast?).

I had a hard launch the other day as well. My son and I were headed to a little show at his old high school last week and I hit it fairly hard turning right onto a 6-lane road (that used to be a 2-lane) chirping 2nd and 3rd. Hard squalling on the turn followed by two solid chirps. Nice to know I haven't lost my touch with a clutch. The long line of dinky econoboxes and minivans behind me (and beside us, stacked-up at the light, in the southbound lanes) got quite the show. My 21-year old seemed duly impressed.

Ahhh...my misspent youth.

[1970Moparmann]

Since the beginning of June, put 800 miles on my Charger and 200 miles on the Superbird.   Miles of smiles....  

[Kern Dog]

Today, to the Dentist.

 

[Kern Dog]

Today, over to see the Coronet guy. He left his sunglasses in the car so I returned them.
He was repairing a hole in his A/C condenser. His first time ever and he fixed it in 5 minutes.
I went to another dentist and to the grocery store too. I was treating it like a regular car.

[timmycharger]

Took it to the local cruise night on Friday, not a huge turnout but still fun.  The Charger got lots of attention and was 1 of about 3 Mopars that night.

[Back N Black]

I try really hard to drive it 4 0r 5 times a week, I take it to the grocery store, drug store etc. And I do a burnout every time. I say to myself ok no burn outs today but I can't help it. I'm on the 3 set of tires on the rear with original set on the front.

[lloyd3]

I'm hot and cold on my driving of this car anymore.

It took order-of-magnitude efforts to secure it and then to re-restore it. Many, many years of plotting & scheming and then scrimping & saving to finally get it to the point where I wanted it. To just go out now and "let 'er rip" seems a bit callous (so I really don't it much anymore).  Most of my use of it now is very measured, you know...dry roads (no dirt) and temperate conditions (not too hot!), minimal passengers (only the "worthy") and in very controlled conditions (minimal traffic if possible & on mostly-rural roads). That all goes out the window occasionally when I'm feeling "out of sorts" and "nostalgic" for another life and another "earlier" time.

I  get "fed-up" with all the nanny-state BS here anymore, all the endless "safety-first" stuff and the seemingly now- eternal drudgery of driving on crowded roads with too-damn many boring and ugly "plastic" cars. Even wiping this unit down after each use (which, when done "right" I can actually enjoy), cleaning the bug-guts and grit off of glass, usually covering it between uses, and then carefully storing it for each winter becomes a little "mundane" after nearly 30-years of ownership.  Every once in a long while, however, I'll get perturbed about something and I'll need a long & contemplative drive in it to clear my mind. I'll then slowly start to remember life back in my late teens & 20s (& all those "wild" early passions....the pretty young women, all the parties, the great music [& cheap booze], & getting "laid", you know...real fun?).

Most of it was painfully stupid, some of it immoral (and arguably dangerous), but all of it really made you feel so-alive and very-much "in the moment". When all those memories come flooding back for me, they really get the juices flowing, and in those now-rare & very "special" moments...the RPMs tend to come up on that old gas-guzzling 440 and the pace really picks up, the unsilenced Carter AVS starts to "moaning" more-loudly, the shifting get more vigorous and deliberate, and then...the rubber really gets "roasted".