Re: Odometer question...

["Dave Swingle" <dswingle@xxxx>]

Yep - this car has appears to have 11,720 miles on it. The DMC speedo 
is, like most prior to the late 80's, designed to "roll over" at 
99,999.9 miles. This should be no different than your 67 or 69, but 
the 98 Mustang definitely has a 999,999 mile speedo (i.e. 1 million 
vs 100-thousand mile limit). 

Caution - I say "Appears to have" because the mileage you see may not 
be accurate. The speedometer gear drive is probably the highest-
failure-rate part on the car. 

At any rate, condition and maintenance/storage history is MUCH more 
important than mileage on a car this old.

Dave Swingle


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, bigbenb84@xxxx wrote:
> I was wondering that to. This might just be a REALLY 
STUPID 
> mistake on my part but.......The odometer read exactly 117204...but 
the 4 was 
> in the white part it....so is it 117,204 or 11,720.4 My '67 
Mustang isn't 
> like that and neither is the Escort or '98 Mustang or the my 
brother's '69 
> Chevelle.