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A Hero?

What else can you call a man who has put 3,000,000 miles on his car? Especially if the car is a 1966 Volvo P1800, which I consider to be a candidate for the title of Most Beautiful Car Ever Made. 

I have a Volvo, too, but in general I'm not one of those people who just loves Volvos. It's a 1992 940 which I bought five or six years ago only because I needed an inexpensive car that I hoped would be pretty reliable. Considering that I only paid $3000 for it and have driven it back and forth to work pretty much every day since then, I think I've gotten my money's worth, even if it has stranded me a couple of times, and the brake lights and turn signals are flaky. My mechanic says the engine is almost indestructible. But with around 220,000 miles on it, and 63 years on me, I don't think there's much chance of our making it even to 1,000,000 miles. 

(3,000,000 miles = 4,828,032 kilometers)

6 responses to “A Hero?”

  1. janet

    I am so jealous!
    AMDG

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  2. Mac

    With good reason.

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  3. janet

    I would have been content with 1,000,000. I’m still mourning my car.
    AMDG

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  4. Mac

    You certainly should have been content, and in fact very proud, since most cars never make it a quarter of that distance. I sometimes wish I had hung on to that Civic that I gave up on when it was around 260,000 or so. But then I remind myself of all the problems it had. It was really too flimsy for the long run.

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  5. Anne-Marie

    I’m feeling grumpy because our big van just lost a cylinder with less than 120,000 miles on it.

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  6. Mac

    Good reason to feel grumpy. We had a Dodge mini-van that had to have a new engine at somewhere around that mileage. May have been closer to 150,000.

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