[DMCForum] Re: High Mileage Vehicles
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Have 194,000 on the truck.

All the maintenance in the world doesn't help when someone throws a
brick through back window...

Think I've got you beat on average age:
'77 1
'78 3
'79 1
'81 2
'85 1
Average: 23.375 years

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Dick Ryan <deloreanbiker@xxxx> wrote:
> Damn!  I KNEW I'd be right SOMEDAY!
> 
> Yeah, Farrar, I DRIVE all my cars.  Have two others,
> both 95's - over 160,000 on each.  
> 
> Let's see, a '68, '83 and 2 - 95's.  Average age 17+
> years and average mileage 187,000+.
> 
> The name of the game is maintenance.
> 
> Dick
> 
> --- Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@xxxx> wrote:
> > Dick's right. The last "original Beetle" factory was
> > in Puebla, Mexico. 
> > ATC did a story on it back in July. Here's a link to
> > the archived audio 
> > of it.
> >
> http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1322473
> > 
> > And congrats on the VW, Dick! Far more impressive
> > than the Saturn I saw 
> > with 400,000 on it. :) Got any other long-lived
> > vehicles? How about that 
> > 1968 Dodge Dart that Joe Mannix drove? (That's my
> > OTHER dream car. I 
> > anticipate flames.)
> > 
> > BTW, I've been hired to sing/act in a local
> > production of "The Music 
> > Man" (barbershop quartet music, anyone?), so I won't
> > make it to the 
> > SEDOC. But many of you weren't expecting me, anyway.
> > Catch y'all some 
> > other time. But I will tell those of you who could
> > stick around a little 
> > longer after the get-together: Jeff Beck is playing
> > in Atlanta on the 
> > 23rd. Should be a good show. I was planning to go,
> > so let me know how it 
> > goes. :)
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Farrar "Olin the Bass" Hudkins
> > 
> > Dick Ryan wrote:
> > > Close, bu no cigar.  It went out of production in
> > > Mexico.  It was produced in the same factory as
> > the
> > > "new" bug, but on a different line. I know that
> > Brazil
> > > made the engines, but, in the last few years, I
> > THINK
> > > the cars were only assembled in Mexico. 
> > > 
> > > I still have my aircooled 1968 VW Type 3
> > Squareback. 
> > > Now has 340,000 miles on it. 
> > > 
> > > Dick  
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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