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Who uses their spridget as their primary vehicle?

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Just a toy, a fun toy but a toy none the less. Owned it for 30 years the injustice of daily commutes is hard on both the cars and the drivers. When daily commuting I want as much driving entertainment as possible, think STi, it was a 90 Mile commute.
 
The Midget is my primary vehicle...I don't have a long daily commute, and avoid primary (and sometimes secondary!) roads like the plague. I'd rather take 15 extra minutes on twisty back roads with no stoplights at 35mph, than the light-to-light 50mph drag race on the main road. So for me, it works. I enjoy taking out a map and figuring how to get from A to B without ever touching a main road. :driving:
 
I wouldn't be surprised if lots of us here drove LBCs as daily drivers back in "the day".

I drove a Triumph GT6 from '71 to '74, put about 60,000 miles on her. No more problems with the GT6 than most others I've owned. Also drove other LBCs, but not as primary cars or daily drivers.

The only problem with the GT6, and many LBCs, is that they want to go TOO FAST, which promotes speeding tickets, wrecks, and other such mayhem.

Oh well . . . :cryin:
 
Mine is my daily driver unless it is raining or a good chance of rain. I only get to drive about 5 miles to work every day. I leave the top down and long as possible.
 
Our 69 Sprite is my daily drive, as long as it is running ok. At the moment we are having issues with the gear box (or something related to), so I've been using the big Healey. Either way, if it isn't snowing or ice, they are my cars every day. :yesnod:
 
I was one of those "back in the day" guys, my first car was a '66 Sprite in 1975, my second car was a '67 I got a couple years later, followed by a '67 B GT, followed by a '66 TR4a, the 4a became "classic car" instead of a daily driver in 1990 when I got a Mazda RX7.

It was the summers that did me in more than the winters, winter was cold, but in those days I usually wore a tie to work, and sweating in a long sleeve shirt and tie is not much fun.

I had a Sprite for a year or so in the late 90s, it sure felt small in modern traffic, I know there were full size 2 ton american cars aplenty in the 70s, but the cars trucks and SUVs of today are all so much taller than 20 or 30 years ago, look at a modern F150 next to an 80s version. Worry both about being seen and about being run over rather than just run into.

I am less risk averse than many, but using an LBC in this day and age with the large tall vehicles and rampant cel phone talk and texting concerns me a bit. Although I do the sunny day commute to work and drive quite a bit.
 
Yep, I drive my bugeye every day to high school in New England. I have snow tires and a hardtop for the winter months. I have to carry a can of de-icer with me into school to free up the side curtains when I get out to the parking lot at the end of the day. Windshield defroster barely works and the heater never gets warm enough by the time I get to school. The rain and slush keeps coming up from the holes in the floorboard. At night, I put a droplight under the bonnet to keep it warm and shoot it with ether in the morning to get it running. Then spring comes, the hardtop comes off and all is right with the world. I wait for the "long version" of the Doors "C'mon Light My Fire" to come over the tinny AM radio and hope my friends aren't going to try to pick my car up and load it in the back of a moving van. Wait ... what? It's not 1967-68 any more and I'm not in high school? OK, then. I just take the bugeye I always wanted to own in high school on sunny days.
 
I would not under any circumstances drive a side curtain car daily as I do my Midget. I can see outside so much better in that car than in my MK2 Sprite.

Also the comfort features like seat heater, loud radio, roll up windows, a heater / defroster that really works. 4 mirrors to see what's behind me... I mean the list just goes on and on and on...

Well no, that's about it really.

Except the 140 db horn I can lay into when I think other drivers are getting out of line.
 
Dang it!! Now I can't get that tune out fo my head!!

Kurt.
 
I do.
My Midget is my only car and does a great job as daily transport : )
 
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