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Learning to drive is the last of your worries. How much do you know about working on a 67 vintage car. They don't exactly run like a modern car. If you can't work on it yourself then that could really add to the overall cost of owning a car like that.
If the OP has any mechanical expertise, working on a 67 Mustang should be cake. They're not as complex as the newer cars are. Especially if it's a 6 cylinder car....you can stand in the engine compartment to change plugs and almost change the starter too.
If the OP has any mechanical expertise, working on a 67 Mustang should be cake. They're not as complex as the newer cars are. Especially if it's a 6 cylinder car....you can stand in the engine compartment to change plugs and almost change the starter too.
I never said they were hard to work on, but they will need someone to care for it. Tune ups are fairly easy, for someone that has some mechanical aptitude. I'm just trying to find out if they know what they are getting into. My guess is someone that has to ask if driving it is hard might not have much of a mechanical background.
If the OP has any mechanical expertise, working on a 67 Mustang should be cake. They're not as complex as the newer cars are. Especially if it's a 6 cylinder car....you can stand in the engine compartment to change plugs and almost change the starter too.
Well, that kind of leads to the other issue. What would you do?
The car is being given to us. We currently have a 2006 Toyota Matrix and a 2007 Mustang GT convertible. We recently moved and my wife has a 7 minute walk to work. I drive 1.5 miles. We don't want to have 3 cars and really only "need" one car. The 2006 Matrix is paid for and has about 51k miles. The convertible we will keep and we are debating on selling one of the other two. The '67 has had a pretty thorough restoration done over the past two years. It is reliable. The '06 has the modern safety features and the warranty, etc. I am thinking the market to sell might be better/easier for the Matrix and I could drive the '67 to work and back (3 miles total) and use for other small daily trips. What do you think?
I never said they were hard to work on, but they will need someone to care for it. Tune ups are fairly easy, for someone that has some mechanical aptitude. I'm just trying to find out if they know what they are getting into. My guess is someone that has to ask if driving it is hard might not have much of a mechanical background.
Good points. My mechanical knowledge is not vast. Although I have seen the car I haven't really thought about owning it. I am going to scrutinize it more the weekend. It would not be driven much. I would have someone else do the maintenance, but we do that on all of our cars anyhow.
It's not hard to learn ESPECIALLY since you can already drive an automatic. You'll get the hang of it. I learned on an automatic and then learned how to drive a stick and it took me 2-3 days at best to get really comfortable with it.
Good points. My mechanical knowledge is not vast. Although I have seen the car I haven't really thought about owning it. I am going to scrutinize it more the weekend. It would not be driven much. I would have someone else do the maintenance, but we do that on all of our cars anyhow.
Sounds like you have things taken care of. The person who does your maintenance now will probably look forward to you bringing it in, I know I would.
Sounds like you have things taken care of. The person who does your maintenance now will probably look forward to you bringing it in, I know I would.
Right. If we find that we think the maintenance costs will be too much, I'll have someone give us an idea of value we'll choose to get rid of it. We won't be losing anything.
Well, that kind of leads to the other issue. What would you do?
The car is being given to us. We currently have a 2006 Toyota Matrix and a 2007 Mustang GT convertible. We recently moved and my wife has a 7 minute walk to work. I drive 1.5 miles. We don't want to have 3 cars and really only "need" one car. The 2006 Matrix is paid for and has about 51k miles. The convertible we will keep and we are debating on selling one of the other two. The '67 has had a pretty thorough restoration done over the past two years. It is reliable. The '06 has the modern safety features and the warranty, etc. I am thinking the market to sell might be better/easier for the Matrix and I could drive the '67 to work and back (3 miles total) and use for other small daily trips. What do you think?
Shoot if it's free then take it. You may not ever get another chance to own a classic Mustang again. Heck I'd take it. Get rid of the Matrix. Have 2 Mustangs.
Honestly the best way to learn to drive stick is to find a good professional driving (street) school, like the ones you send your 16-year old kid to to help them pass the driving test. This way you have a professional instructor who does not have any equity stake in the car, it's all about teaching you to drive with the stickshift.
Next best would be an old beater car out in a field or really big parking lot and just teach yourself.
Keep in mind it's not about how few times you stall the engine starting out. Any numbskull can learn to slip the hell out of the clutch, which will wear it out pronto.
You didn't ask, but consistently driving a car 1.5 miles one way is very adverse service, the oil will never heat up fully, you will definitely build up sludge if you take a "grandma" trip like this every day and never go for a real drive and fully warm the car up. Frequent oil changes will help but won't completely overcome the problem.
About the only car that would tolerate this type of service is an old air-cooled VW bug, even then I'd say change the oil every 1000 miles.
If you drive the 'stang in the winter on salted roads you'll rust it out in a few years, regardless of nostrums like washing and waxing the car frequently or whatever.
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