ScottG wrote:
drsteve wrote:
Back in the day, IF a vehicle made it to 100,000 miles, you were lucky, and it was more than likely ready for the junk yard.
You aint kidding.
The 64 T-bird in my earlier pic was purchased by my dad in the 70's and had just over 60K miles on it.
It needed a ton of work at that time including a valve job. At 80K I rebuilt the eng.
40 years later I restored it at 107K and repaired, rebuilt or replaced just about anything part that moved.
Not all of them. In 1992 I sold a ‘72 Chevy LUV (Isuzu built) with over 220k to my cousin. He drove it throughout college and then sold it to another guy at his work a few years later who drove it who knows how much longer. It used less than a quart of oil in 3k miles when I owned it. It was a great little truck.
