Amazing car story. almost 3 million miles with same car same person

[BuzzKillington]

My buddy's mom parked her p1800 at here moms house back in the 90's and early 2000 my dad asked if they'd sell it so he went over... put a new battery in it, drained the tank and put new gas in it. He gave it a shot of starting fluid and it started right up. I'm surprised the fire department didn't get called from all the smoke coming out of that thing. Needless to say they decided not to sell it to my dad because it "ran." They said they were gunna fix it up and give it to her son (my buddy). It never happened... it's still sittin' there rotting away.

[Twigsoffury]

277k on my ford explorer.

lol sure the A/C system is trashed, the vaccum system has quite a few leaks so it idles rough and some of the flappers for the vents won't work, so i only get air through the windshield blowers.

But its still runnin'!

[Collinstheclown]

I bet there isn't a single original part on that bad boy

You'd be quite surprised...

[dr.walrus]

You'd be quite surprised...

I read up on it, and you're right, i was extremely surprised. Two engine rebuilds only!

[BS Mods]

When I was growing up we had the car that was in the Guiness book of world records for this.

It was a Mercedes and it had at the time 1,180,xxx miles on it and had never been rebuilt. I want to say it was about 1980 or so.

Now there are lots of cars with over a million miles but back then it was a huge deal! If you take good care of them they will last forever.

[Twigsoffury]

should see the odometers on some old semi trucks