What do you admire more?

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Being a Porsche owner who likes to take care of my car, I feel a slight tendency to prejudiced opinions here. Sure there are some fancy cars who end up as garage queens, but that's just a very few of them.



This is how the car looks like after a track day on Gotland Ring. I can tell you that the white powder is not normal road dirt, it's limestone dust and a PITA to get of the car...
 

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Hard for me to tell. My DD always look like my garage queens. When one DD gets dirty I drive the clean DD until the other is cleaned up. Admittingly, we do not get bad winters here normally. Last year only 3 inches of snow and so far this winter zero. :bounce



I detail my nice weather only daily driven C5 after every voyage outside the garage. :o. The Zaino keeps the white SUV "appearing" cleaning and shiny between washes.



IMHO being a garage queen doesn't relegate a vehicle to the pristine class. It is the detailer and the attention to details the makes the grade.
 
Mine fit somewhere inbetween a garage queen and a DD. The black 39 Ford get driven to work about once a week during good weather and about 3000 miles a year. Currently it is getting the chips in the front cleaned up by the paint shop. The blue 58 Vette is our summer afternoon car and gets driven in the 2000 to 3000 miles a year and to work several time a month but not in the snow. The 65 Vette is burning oil so it only got about 25 miles last year. The 34 Chevy I hate to drive and only got about 25 miles or so a year.



Show cars are held to a higher standard the DD also. A few small swirls dosn't detract that much on a DD but people really notice them on a showcar. :xyxthumbs



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I kind of think old garage queens are neatest. It's like a time machine, seeing some car that was normal/common/exciting/new years ago and is still in great shape. But any car well-kept is cool. It's definitely neat to see a pristine daily driver, as it's a lot of work to do that. But over time, daily driving takes its toll no matter the care.
 
You have got one of my favorite cars. The RX7 .... Rotary power! zoom-zoom







Accumulator said:
Well, yeah, the dd is more impressive when kept really nice. But it's not like garage queens don't take work to keep detailed to a certain level too. If I did the JXS with Turtle Wax it sure wouldn't look the way it does. But it doesn't look any better than it did when I used it as a dd. I don't really treat my garage queens any differently from my dds and most people couldn't tell the difference. OK, the dds have all been wrecked and the paintwork wasn't done perfectly, but that's about the only difference.



As I'm finding out with my new-to-me '84 RX-7, even low miles don't guarantee an immaculate vehicle. The previous owner never cleaned under the hood, let alone doing anything to the undercarriage. It's a garage queen mileage-wise, and he kept great records of how he cared for it, and it won a few local shows for him. But it's just awful compared to, say, my dd minivan. So far I have 12 hours on the RX's undercarriage and I'm just getting started down there. If I put 12 hours into the *entire* minivan it'd be ready for a very serious car show.
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MDRX8- Yeah...I like the way it goes "hmmmmm" (as the old ads said). I had an '81 GL back in college so this one is sorta a time machine with more power.
 
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