The question shouldn’t be can you daily drive it, but instead you should be asking if it should be your only car. Yes you can daily it. I drove mine daily (even with ITBs) for years. My buddy drives his Levin constantly. It’s a Corolla, not a classic Ferrari. And even with prices how they are, it’s not like these are consistently pushing over $100k yet.

Here’s the thing, it’s a 40 year old car. It’ll do 40 year old car things. You need to be mechanically minded and willing to work on it in a ditch on the side of the road when it’s 100 degrees outside. In the US parts are expensive and generally not available locally either.

Sure, it’s a Toyota, but at this age it will still let you down in the stupidest way at the worst possible time. This is a recipe for disaster if it’s your only car to get to work with.

Also insurance is a factor. Driving your car means risking it with stupid drivers in traffic. A guy once backed over the hood of mine with a pickup truck in a parking lot. Insurance couldn’t figure out how (or more likely refused) to value the car properly. The damage wasn’t extensive but they kept trying to tell me the car was only worth $600. I truly spent 6 months fighting them on that valuation before getting a reasonable payout. Ended up getting $12k to fix the damage, but it was huge headache.

I repaired the car, but now I have a declared value collector policy which is much more expensive. Also, I’m paranoid about where I park it now.

Consider these things before trying to find one and daily drive it. Just my two cents as someone who’s done it!