Time and environment would be the difference to me if I had a garage queen.
Here is how I`d treat them differently:
I found the following very interesting! Needless to say (I hope), I trust my responses don`t sound argumentative or challenging.
- I would drive my garage queen in the cold and rain, but I wouldn`t drive it in the snow and crud where ice, salt, and sand would scratch the paint
Ah..good example. I DO NOT drive the Crown Vic in the salt because IME it`s virtually impossible to keep a salt-exposed vehicle near showroom underneath. Learned that on the (aluminum, no less) S8 when salt discolored some undercar bits in a permanent way.
I did drive the Jag(!) in salt without any issues, but Oh Man was that a job after every outing. (Yeah, for years some of my cars got washed to perfection after every use, what a waste of my time!)
The A8 simply doesn`t suffer from it though, nor does the Tahoe. But look at the hours I spend on every wash!
- I would park my garage queen at the outer limits of a parking lot where it wouldn`t get marred up by some passing women`s purse or backed into by a short person driving a huge vehicle (both have happened to me). The daily gets parked where ever there is an open spot to facilitate a quick ingress/egress.
OK, that`s sensible. Being, uhm..us...we park `em all where it`s safe. Well, except the Tahoe but it only seems to get dented, not scratched and IMO "what`s one (or six) more dents?" can apply with that thing.
- I would spend more time fawning over the garage queen to ensure perfection and looking amazing, while I`d keep the daily`s clean looking really good.
Ah yeah, that "it`s a labor of love, not just another chore" perspective
I somehow lost that
And with all these, uhm..accumulated vehicles...I can spend ages on the Dailies just like the Queens (and basically do when it`s necessary), we just drive something else. (How nutty is "we need multiple dog-haulers?!?)
I`m not advocating letting a daily driver become totally neglected, but a daily driver gets exposed to life every day and the perfection from a good detailing session potentially will only hours. A garage queen will hopefully last much longer. My time is finite, and unlike my kids, I will play favorites and put more of my time to the target of my affections. You can go insane trying to juggle life and keep a daily in show car condition...At least I would.
That all makes such perfect sense that it has me wondering why my experiences differ!
Heh heh, guess my version of "go insane.." is losing the enjoyment
I *will* admit that the A8 has some minor marring from elderly passengers having to grab a handful of car to avoid falling, and it has some interior wear from when the kids-in-law were little (and a bit from the cats and dogs too, before I wised up about properly outfitting Pet Haulers), and its interior wood is imperfect. And when any vehicle hauls big, active dogs all the time, [sruff] will eventually happen in the jamb of "their door". Heh heh, I guess those will qualify as The Difference after all!
Resources, the environment, kids and the elderly are total wildcards IMO...
Eh, same ol` same ol`...I`m spoiled and "different" and can`t extrapolate too much from my experiences.
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