Glorious week!

[Snowhog]

Re: Glorious week!

yea my last civic has just under 400k mi on it. and the one before that. and my first car (86 accord ) had 250k when i sold it...

My first 'new' car - a Dodge Lancer ES - had 184K miles on it when I sold it. My second 'new' car was a Dodge Intrepid (six-cylinder). I gave it to my half-sister in October 2008, when I bought my third 'new' car, a Chrysler Sebring (four-cylinder). The Intrepid had over 300K original miles (engine and automatic transmission) and still got over 23 MPG. It definitely was showing its age, but I did regular oil changes, tune-ups, and alignments and such. My Harley (2002 Softail Standard, FXSTI) has over 100K miles.

[sithlord48]

Re: Glorious week!

i used to have a co-worker w/ a suban w/ 500+K on it.. he still got good mileage in that thing. and could tell when something was wrong because his gas mileage would be lowered... think he still drives it...

[GreyGeek]

Re: Glorious week!

My first car was a 1949 Chevy Inline six, fastback, all black. I called it my "Golden Chariot". It usually gave me 28 mpg. I loaned it to a friend and he got into an accident with it. Someone T-boned him on the passenger side. Bent the frame. I ended up restoring the shape and blocking the broken window by putting strips of Duct tape from the roof to the running board. I drove it for another month or so and just gave it to my friend because it would cost more than it was worth to repair.

I replaced it with a 1953 Chevy two-door with a PowerGlide transmission. Very smooth, 20 mpg. When I bought my first new car, a 1970 Mercury, I gave the 53 chevy to a foreign exchange student attending the college where I was teaching. One day, while my wife and I were picnicking in the park, he drove by, happened to see us, stuck his head and right hand out of the window and began shouting and waving to us. There was a bridge crossing the stream that flowed through the park. You are ahead of me aren't you! Yup! Bang! In an instant he was a pedestrian again.