Roy, as of lately I have not had any daily driven street rods but in the past we have. My wife had her 34 ply sedan as her daily car for about 10 years, we lived in Rochester NY and she drove that car every day back and forth to work from April to about Dec or till they started putting salt on the roads, but as you can see by the picture below. we did get caught in a ice storm.

I drove my 36 humpback panel for over 12 years as my daily car except for the winter months

then I built a 41 willys on a dodge ramcharger 4x4 chassis so I could have a year round street rod.

my COE, the 34 dodge and the car hauler were also daily drivers and all were very reliable .

I would say you son could use one as a daily driver but you might want to get something for winter use(crazy drivers around these days)



all these street rods were daily drivers: