It boggles my mind as I walk through my neigbourhood how many cars sit in garages and are never driven. I live in central etobicoke.

Within a 5 minute walk, I know of:

2 Targa 911's one Ice green ('77), one black SC
Cadillac and camaro under blankets
Integra R
Fiero Ferrari
3 or 4 'vettes
GTR

These are the ones I can think of. There are many more, nevermind the ones I haven't seen. These do not include the toy cars that are driven. These are cars that in my 3 years living here, cars that have not moved.

What's your neighbourhood like? I keep thinking I should do a picture book LOL

 

I live in the Kingsway, I know of 4 Ferraris and one CGT that see the light of day maybe 1 to 3 days a year. On my street alone 2 Boxsters and one classic stang convertible that just sit under covers.

Mine do same but up north in the cottage garage lol

 

I'm near Dundas and Islington. Was running a 996 and Z06 until last fall when I sold the Vette. Splitting seat time between two cars has them see even less run time.

But, I still see getting back into a Corvette at some point...

 

‘It’s a good time now. GM offering $4k off plus dealers kicking in another $4k-$5k.

 

Not driving these cars is like having a super hot wife and not ****ing her. Saving her for the next guy?

 

Dude on my street, he just constantly works on his 2 cool cars in the garage. Older gentleman (retired). As far as I know the cars run but never see him go for a drive.

 

C7 Z06?

Been looking at those.

 

I put 25 miles on my last 1967 Camaro in the 2 years that I owned it . There’s just not that many places to take a really nice classic. When they are frame off restored and as nice underneath as they are up top, you really think twice before taking them out.

 

I took the turbo out this weekend for a spirited 150-mile drive and burned off a tank of '93. Shell stock will bump on Monday.

 

I just drive the things.

Really question of time rather than any attempt to limit mileage. We all get old and feeble at some point and just looking at them is very boring for me. Across the 4x RS I have owned I have about 100,000km among them, and on more regular cars I have 70,000km on my Panamera ST Turbo,30,000 on the '22 Cayenne GTS which replaced an older Cayenne S with 320,000km on it. Not gonna win any major Concours.

 

I’m too tall for the 7th generation Vette. Stuck with C6 and C5. Not interested in the C8 - it’s too big of a car as far as I’m concerned


But agree the C7 Z would be a nice ride!

 

Never been in one. But a guy in my run group at the track last couple years had one, looked like a blast.

I want to get a v8 of some sort and have been drawn to vettes. C7 looks great, saw a yellow Z06 on Saturday. C8 I think looks big and that rear end is ugly.

 

I think I'd want to drive a sorted, restored car even more. It's ready for the road.

But I could see folks giving more thought to a 100% restored classic.

This year has been the worst year yet for mileage on my fun cars. Too low. Not enough time to drive them. I don't drive them to work, so that is the single biggest opportunity to enjoy driving them. Then evenings and weekends were fairly busy this season.

 

Work for me is about 25 km away by the lake where Mississauga and Oakville meet. Pre-pandemic I used to take fun car to work a few times per month. Since pandemic, I'm only in office 2 days a week so I only took to work 2 times this year since I usually have errands to run but more because of the ridiculous traffic. My commute home used to be 25 minutes. Now it is 45 minutes to an hour. For perspective, no traffic it is a 20 minute drive.

 

I'm in everyday, so would be awesome to drive a fun car. But I'm concerned about optics in my environment, past jobs no problem.

IESO?