914 Daily Driver?, What do you think? Options

[Eric Taylor]

I'm looking for a car that's a good daily driver, that I can get in and drive every day back and forth from campus to my apartment. I've got an audi right now, but it get's horriable gas milage, and is just like every other audi really expensive to repair and not something that I can work on. So my thinking is that If I could find a nice rust free car for around $5000, with reciepts and maybe new paint that it would make a good daily driver. The pluses are that I already know a lot about how to work on them, and i'm deffinatly not afraid to do thing's on it. I've already got a good solid mostly rust free restoration canidate that I will continue to work on, however it's gona take a lot of years, and money to make it what I want to to be. So what do you guys think? Is this fesiable or am I off my rocker?
Eric

Oh yeah, I should mention that I'll probably be making a couple 100 mile drives a month in it, that might cause a problem, but let me know what you guys think

[mike_the_man]

It can be done. I plan to use mine as a daily driver this summer. Although, I planned to do that the last two summers as well, and it never really panned. A 30 year old car is likely to break down, but ya never know. Plus, I'm not sure how much cheaper a 914 would be to maintain than an Audi. I own both, and they seem to be pretty comparable. The 914 may be a bit cheaper.

For $5000 you could buy a nice Honda with air conditioning that would get 50mpg, and never break down. But who would want that? Not me! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)