Jim,
Here is my three-year average for the car : 27.85 mpg. It is not
driven in snow, but I do drive it around town in winter when the roads
are not white with salt.
As for using it as a daily driver, some certainly do. I did for
years, with a rubber-bumper MGB. That seemed to me to survive the
park-by-ear knocks that a car receives in daily use. Factors that affect
cost of operation include depreciation, maintenance, insurance, fuel and
driver comfort, among others. MGB depreciation is stable, now.
Maintenance is, by today's standards, frequent, though inexpensive.
Insurance depends on the whims of your insurer, since collector-car rates
would not apply to an MGB used in daily service. Driver comfort includes
the question of working defrosters, wipers that clear much of the glass,
rate at which the heater comes alive, etc.
Bob
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:37:28 +0000 pokrefke1@comcast.net writes:
> Thanks for the message. I kept excellent records of my mileage in my
> Saab (before my wife stole it) but I never bothered to do it for my
> MGB as it was always a pleasure vehicle.
>
> Now that she stole my car and I have to drive her SUV, I'm trying to
> decide if I should be an efficient beater or press the MGB into
> daily driver service.
>
>
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> > Several times a year I drive my OD equipped '72 GT on 315 mile,
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