How many miles have you put on your ride?

[Larry Callahan]

Seeing a good friend of mine and moderator of Pro-Touring.com Carl Casanova driving his ‘68 Camaro around town makes me think about my automotive plans for 2019. It is my goal to not only drive MotiV8r in 2019 but to drive it to Fontana and run at least one NMCA West Auto-X with the Racing Byrd’s. My plan is to drive it as much as possible and to wear it out. While there is no way that I will ever put over 550,000+ miles on it like Carl Casanova has but I do hope to make it my daily driver.



With that said, how many miles have you put on your Pro-Touring ride? Some of us like Bill Howell and Chad Ryker have been lucky enough to drive their cars cross country and back after competing with them.

How many miles total have you driven? Share your story and a picture of your ride. I would love to see it and hear about it.

Happy New Year!!!

[AU Doc]

I like to hear this! I’m not finished with my car yet, but people ask me all the time what I plan to do with it when it is. Well, I’d like to put half a million miles on it. I doubt I’ll make it quite that high, but I’m sure going to try!

[shelteredchevelle]

It seems to a lot of guys the chase is better than the catch. Not me, I'm gonna get it to a point that it's presentable and drive the crap outta it. Or at least that's my plan... I'll take it back apart after a couple years and do some more, but I don't want to lose it for another year.

[rchaskin]

I put 71,000 on my car, but that is from 1992...LOL

Over the last 5 years, I have averaged about 5k per year.

[slimjim]

I'm with the guys above, when most people ask me what I plan to do with my car when it's finished, my answer is usually "try and break it", or something along those lines, it's the leading reason why I've learnt bodywork, because I know if I forked out 20k plus I'd never drive it how I plan to. Competition specialties are doing it right and I plan to do the same.

[AU Doc]

I love the no expense spared builds I see here on the forums. That said, I bought a car with a good "driver-quality" paint job. There was nothing particularly special about the car when it was born, but that's what I was looking for as I intended to put late model drivetrain in the car so that I could drive it. While I'll be upset if/when I get a door ding, and I'd prefer not to get any stone chips, I know that sort of thing will happen. I'd much rather it happen to a car that doesn't have a $20k paint job on it. Sure, if I slept on a bed of $100 bills every night, I'd have a show-quality paint job on my beater. But under the circumstances, I like the compromise so that I can drive the car without being (too) worried about it.

[1972Mach1]

My F100 is my daily, and gets driven no matter what the weather is, so I think I've done 60k on it in 4 years. It was 2 degrees and snowing this morning, and it came to work with me. My Mach 1 is my first car, and I've owned since I was 12 and I'm 39 now. I've wrapped the odometer twice on it, so I'd say I've got 250k on it myself. I drive my Riviera probably 3-4,000 miles/year.

[79 Camaro]

Not exactly pro-tour but my 98 Wrangler LS6/4L60E swap is my summertime daily run around driver and snow plow in the winter. I have over 10 years on the swap. Maybe 30,000 miles. Had it on the Power Tour a couple of times. My current semi Pro-Tour build is a 68 C10 LS1/T56 build. Just got done late last summer so only about 1000 miles on it so far. I expect to do about 3000 mile with it next summer.

[icemanrd19]

6000 miles or more a year on my car. I dont have a problem daily driving it if need be. Might even drive it to optima which is 10hrs away instead of trailering it. We shall see. Every year a group of us likes to get together and do one or two long road trips from dallas.

[andrewb70]

I have over 20K on the GTO and probably around 15K on the Cougar. I drive the Cougar as my primary daily driver. Just did a 1100 mile road trip to Orlando to visit JP. On the way there it looked like this all day:



Andrew

[TheJDMan]

Since getting Dust Off operational in April of 2012, I have put a little over 37,000 miles on it. I purchased this car in 1973 while going to school in Phoenix AZ. It was my daily driver for the next three years. But in 1976 I got married, I allowed the tags to expire and started drag racing it for the next 10 odd years. Eventually, life got in the way and the car was parked in moms garage collecting dust till about 2009/2010 when I ran across some pictures of MotiV8r and immediately knew what I wanted to build. I literally dusted it off and started the current build which inspired the current name. I have to credit Larry and MotiV8r for the inspiration behind my Dust Off build. I'm really looking forward to seeing MotiV8r back on the road.

Here is a pic from around 1983 when I was still drag racing it. BTW, the paint in the top pic is the same paint that is in the lower pics on the car today.



Here are a couple of action shots from on the "Tail of the Dragon" and on track at DR.





Thank You Larry and Pro-Touring.com!!!!!

[GoodysGotaCuda]

5,000 miles in about 14 months of driving. I prefer not to commute much in it due to Hagerty/collector insurance constraints.

That said, I only put about 10,000mi per year on my daily driver, so I don't go all that far in general.

[Mr Nick]

Hot Rod Power Tour 2015


2016


2017


Got married late 2017 and bought a house in 2018, didn't have time for HRPT 2018. Plan on doing a few stops in 2019 though.

So, about 4-5k miles per year average.

[Steve Chryssos]

Lemme go look. Wait here.

[rocketrod]

3,000-5,000 miles a year. It was more but I bought a C5 Z06 and put 10k miles on it last year

[Reckn8]

Larry, you know Phillip and I put lot's of miles on our cars! The F-85 has even hit a deer on the 2014 Power Tour and was rebuilt.

[AU Doc]

.......The F-85 has even hit a deer on the 2014 Power Tour and was rebuilt.

^^^^ And that's the sort of thing that makes me want to leave the car in the garage!!! :-)

All part of it, though.

[Bugzilla]

Let's see, in the past 3 years it's been drivable, I have put a hair over 500 miles on it total. Why you ask, cause of no ac, heater, windshield wipers, side windows and an exhaust so loud it makes your ears ring. Having said that, it does cruise nice down the highway at 80 mph and gets halfway decent mileage. I drive it to the track events. No trailer for me unless it breaks.

[76TA]

Well. If you count the total distance of how many feet I've pushed my chassis around my garage; spinning it, pushing it out of the way and then were to count the distance traveled up and down my lift AND count the distance traveled on the trailer to and from the chassis specialist...I'd say...somewhere in the range of 158 miles. Probably 30 feet of vertical travel (distance traveled on my lift).

But you're not so zero, zip, nada in 3 years. Before that roughly 1,500 per year.

- 76TA

[mike@sim-seats]

I do about 1500 miles/year on mine. I wish it was more... Now that the youngest is 2 I am hoping that some weekend trips with it will be less of a big deal.