What is normal ?

Our driving season is all year long, and I average ~5000 miles, with at least 2000 being the Carlisle trip and a trip to the mountains.  I guess I average 60 miles a week when I'm at home.  My BMW stays parked any decent weekend, and I use the Speedster.  Saves a lot of miles on the BMW, too.

FWIW - Most any car will get you to a destination! In these cars, the journey IS the adventure. Its just a matter of how much adventure you can handle/bear/manage/tolerate/seek/enjoy/afford!

I'm just saying...

...oh, and logged 87,000 Speedster miles and counting...

In a year I have put about 8,000 miles on.  500 was the day after I purchased it not knowing anything about the car and hoping there would not be any roadside repairs needed.

Hi Terry,

As a long-term bad back guy, I have found what helps me increase my seat time.  I took three towels and rolled them to differing thicknesses, like 4", 6", and 8".  When my back would get sore, I would try each one for pain relief.  The 6" model works for me, so I keep a towel duct-taped to that thickness in any cars I have that I may use for extended driving.  Warning: different seats offer different challenges for bad back guys, so what works in one car may not work in another.  My current cars have similar seats.  Hope this helps. 

 Jim I also have had disc injuries. That why I made the Honda seats fit and look close to correct.  At this point I think I  could do something similar with 1 inch conduit pipe.  Only problem Is they wont have the adjustable reclining backs ..

If I could get some input from you guys as to what is the most comfortable seat deck and seat back angles to weld them solid too . I might have you a working replacements  off the drawing board.. Only frames and springs and seat tracks.. My hope is to use Real 356 coupe foam and covers. 

I'm sure with Jim on this one. In this neck of the woods we can't drive much in the winter so my most of my miles came from long trips. Lately though I've been using the Speedster as a daily driver whenever convenient. We like to travel and have racked up just over 36,000 miles since Sept 2010. How's this pic, Jim ? Mesa Verde National Park in Colo up around 8,000 feet in May of 2012. Second pic is a favourite in a remote area in Arizona earlier on that trip. Last pic is just a nice one on the coast of Maine last summer.

You fellas with the bad backs sure have my sympathy.....I've been pretty lucky so far.

I just noticed the different stance of the rear end of the car in pics two and three. The first was with the old aircooled 1915 and plenty of gear packed on that long trip. The last pic was with the Soob, lightly packed and up a bit with the coil overs installed to take the extra weight in the rear.

I had some "thinking to do" last summer after a few years of family troubles and did a LOT of back-road driving with Pearl, racking up over 5,000 miles in three months.  This year, I'm racking up those miles on my bicycle and Pearl has been sitting a lot, but I still hope to squeeze in a couple of thousand miles by the end of the summer.....We'll see.

Normal for me has been waiting for my car to exit the shop(s) .......

Got my manuals, wrenches and portable SOC-capable devices ready so looking to waste some fossil fuel soon

3000-4000 miles so far. Lotta grocery runs and the odd several hundred miler. The car has a stock 1500 SP with maybe 60k miles on the jugs, three or four times that on the case. So far I been lucky, I guess.

My mileage varies from year to year, but I'm usually good for 2500/yr. give or take. Blackie turned over 20,000 miles at the Carlisle meet last month.

~WB

Dang Bill!  I have almost twice as many miles as you.  here's how you catch up to me: Drive Blackie from south central PA to Charleston and back a few times (I know some great restaurants) and then to the mountains a few times.  You'll thank me 

HA! My back can barely take the hour drive to the Merklin Casa let alone SC. Although it's a lovely thought. I think I'll leave the long ones for the tow bar.