I don't see the problem  its a car . and if its  all you got and can afford  drive it

Ther's an old coot (sorry guys  ) in my area that drives around in a early 50's ford pickup all year round.

I was in London yesterday greasy slushy roads dripping with sand and salt and spotted a nice looking  late 60s Elky that looked pretty nice,  kind of a blue one with wide whites and baby moons ..and my thought was how fking sad to drive that in the weather we were having ,I feel the same about the SST Javelin..The Javelin is a really rare car and it's a shame to see it getting salt ...I guess I have way to many hours doing frame offs and cleaning up underbody rust and replacing or repairing frame rails, floor pans body mounts, So I tend to cringe a bit when I see them out in the sand and salt especially here in the great lakes where it's so damn damp all the time they just never dry out ,they rust for about 3 seasons..We can only count on july and Aug for dry weather...Good thing we have different visions.. I had one of those Javelins, a really nice one , till the wife and I went on a 2week holiday in about 79 or 80 and when we got home I seen a tarp covering something outside the barn  and come to find out my number 1 son took it out for a joy ride and lost it in the ditch and hit a hydro pole complete wreck, he wasn't hurt but I am remembering, he wished he had gotten killed   when I got through with him. We can smile about it now ..no laughing,just a smile, because it still hurts to remember that car I am glad he did not get hurt as I wanted that job myself after I found out about the car and it was not the first or only car he toasted till he grew up ,I was glad when he got married and had to pay for his own car..Then I remember he had a really sweet little duster that we tricked up and then Karma is a bitch eh! Somebody hit him and they had no insurance he ended up with squat ..He then grew up and understood what it felt like for some one else to wreck your stuff..

Our good buddy Brent drives cool stuff year round. He has driven his Merc Meatier:

And his old 'A' Sedan that's now terrorizing Quebec:

And this '34 Coupe that was built to drive all year! :

Sorry I don't have any shots of them in the white stuff, but I've seen it many times in the past! 

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not to nit pick (hah ha, you can pretty much guarantee that any sentence that starts this way IS to nit pick ) but that sure looks to be a 2-seater AMX and not a Javelin. always liked those cars

Dats o.K you pick away..you are right it is an amx..first glance looked just like my old SST but mine had stripes and hood scoops..Even so I guess I just been so poor when I was a growing kid I could hardly afford a car when I was raising a family..  my best car was onther guys beater..Most of my first classic,specail interest ,rods were somebodys elses junk that I had to build from rust..I guess I will aways feel that if'n yah got something real nice I would want to keep it that way as long as I could .. I just like to take care fo my stuff I worked to damn hard for my stuff to disrespect it ..and around here we don't have any roads that are most times  dripping with sand and salt and slush and damp wet humid rust making weather ..It has been said that on a quiet night you can hear the big three rusting away.. My toys are tucked away washed,waxed, covered , in a heated shop till the sun shines again..I have a grandson waiting till I croak to get his hands on one of em..but hey if it's yours you can do as you like ..me I'm waiting for the 40 million maybe then then I can throw frugality to the wind..

I too look after whatever I own. always clean/waxed/taken care of. I too work hard for everything I buy/fix ect. Nothing handed to me and I enjoy every minute of it all.

My daily driver is almost 14yrs old and nobody believes that it is. I don't abuse my "toy's........But I drive them. I think it is abusing them not to. That's why we build them.

All I know is I don't really remember the Sunday morning slow drives to church in our old charger, but you can bet I remember flying down the back roads to burn the exhaust off and hitting the hills so fast our heads would hit the roof liner when Dad wanted new exhaust on the Fri afternoon. 

I remember hitting trails with our hand built dune buggy and getting covered with mud.......... not so much the slow rides through town when it and we were clean.

I'm not into building monuments.

When I was 8 my grandpa used to let me drive his  standard old truck. You couldn't wipe the grin off my face.....or the look of horror off of his come to think of it.

Years later when he was in the nursing home and couldn't drive anymore, I never missed a day that I didn't ask him if he wanted to hit the back roads and drive my standard Ford.

When my daughter was 6,  I picked up a standard/ 3cyl convertible firefly. I would hit the back roads, she would jump in my lap and steer until she was old enough to reach the peddles and then she learned how to change gears...... tires, oil wash it, ect.  we would crack the top open and drive it in the winter for a treat/laugh. It was well worth the 2 hrs of cleaning afterwards

I'm pretty sure that its things like that both my kids will remember..... Not all the times I left my "toys" tucked away...in a heated garage until summer. I'm hoping if I'm blessed with grandkids......they'll be taught the same from my kids.

What if there isn't another summer coming to me???

Just sayin.

Janice