Owning these cars and living on a dirt road?

[Purerock105]

I just couldn't and wouldn't do it.

Even if the property was gifted to me like in an inheritance.

The dirt, small little rocks dinging off the quarter panels. And that's when it's dry. Add rain to the mix, ugh!

My friends hypothetical is to pay to have the road paved. Not so simple if the state or county/city owns it. As in state maintained, not your private driveway.

 

[vortecd]

Being into cars I would never live on a dirt road

 

[Purerock105]

When I was 18 I did. I owned my 71 Dodge Dart with Cragar S/S's and my 75 Powerwagon with chrome modulars. It killed me, but at that age, my residential options were limited. It was that 2yr experience that afterword, I said..."never again".

 

[ChargerChallenger]

Totally agree on this thread and so many years ago I had an offer on my property which was hard to resist. My wife and I drove around for months looking for property and every time we found something it was down a DIRT ASS ROAD. Nope Nope Nope is what I would tell my wife and at the end of the day we never moved. I drive backroads in my trucks and Jeeps and on rainy days they are trashed beyond trashed. Everything is covered in what I feel is silt which even gets into the door jams. It takes forever to clean the trucks and or Jeeps. I have motorcycles as well and no way do you expose yourself to that environment on a 900-1000 pound bike. And if you drive a Tesla your in for a really bad experience as well

 

[tkracing1]

There is always a way to make it work.

 

[Purerock105]

There is always a way to make it work.

View attachment 11541

Is that Fury Road? 😂

 

[tkracing1]

Is that Fury Road? 😂

Good call as she was shooting for the Mad Max look when she had it wrapped.

 

[RPM]

It's not that bad.
We have a 1/2 mile driveway

 

[Decay]

We have about 50 yards of gravel as well...

 

[Magnified]

Is that Fury Road? 😂

Furry Road.

 

[Magnified]

It's not that bad.
We have a 1/2 mile driveway View attachment 11696

Johnny law will write you a note for that non-regulation license plate boy....

 

[Jimmy N.]

I wouldn't want to live anywhere where I didn't have at least a 1/4-mile of driveway between me and the riff raff.
If it's dirt, so much the better. That keeps the weenies away.

Unfortunately, my current one is gravel, so not as effective as dirt, but still better than pavement.
For keeping the cars clean I use a little known secret. I drive slowly.
As an added bonus, the fluids gets to warm up a bit more because of it.

 

[Magnified]

You don't floor it up and down that road jim?

 

[JRabq]

Kids are grown, so looking to resize the home. A number of nice properties on west side of town, but on unpaved, dirt roads. I'd be insane with the HCs. Uh, no tnx...off our list!

 

[Designflaw]

Mile long gravel road, it can be a pain, but worth it for what I have!!

 

[MikeD1]

I'd be OK with well maintained gravel, but have passed on many houses when looking if they were on dirt roads !
When I was a senior in HS we moved to a place with a dirt road (that they 'oiled' in summer) - it sucked & took a toll on the cars.

 

[Jimmy N.]

You don't floor it up and down that road jim?

Occasionally I do. But only when it's snow covered.
And then it doesn't matter how much or little throttle I give it...still going nowhere.

 

[Magnified]

My 13 degree dirt/rock road up to my place in the rockies never sees the HC, and you ain't going fast on that road if you value you're vehicle (rock on one side, a good 6' fall on the other at the shallowest) so I can relate. And I have to admit, if it's snow and ice covered, I generally leave that thing alone until we've had some good melt work on it.

 

[Jimmy N.]

Sounds like you could use a dump trailer (with gravel) and a tractor, Magnified.

Where I lived in CA we had a section of the dirt road that was 18 degrees (not percent), but that wouldn't have kept a Hellcat out, had they existed then. But the angle at the intersection with the paved road sure would have.
If memory serves me, that was about 15 degrees...out of a Challenger's approach angle of 10.

 

[Magnified]

Bulldozer, actually. I can drop that 13 degree peak grade to about 11 or 10 I think, with careful grading. I could get the HC up there, I just don't do it. I could use the gravel / rip rap up by the shop and house though. I'll watch for you next time I'm out there. Need a new gate too. Approach isn't bad, just pretty steep.