Even a 78 Impala won’t cost much to drive
Many variables, and they can add up fast, especially if you do NOT do your own work.
They put salt on the roads around here, the car makers should donate the salt. It eats everything.
Even without salt the brake lines , twenty years with luck.
Timing chain, back in 78, maybe 100k miles, maybe?
The trans? How many will you purchase?
The small block is a great engine but how was it maintained?
IMO at thirty years lots of problems, like the electrical that I hate. Some plastics turn to crap even the parts thought to last forever like rear ends and wheel bearings ...
A friend into Ferraris, uses a crazy expensive cleaner on EVERY electrical connection (jack, lug, screw...) on the car.
Every two(?) years.
The TCO of an old car is a myth.
Ok whatever. How about a 2010 pickup. The point was that an EV is an expensive virtue signal that makes no fiscal sense using the “I only drive locally” argument.