[DML] Re: JZD Was Brilliant!

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've got 225,478 on my 1985 F150 (actual miles -- unlike a DeLorean, it has always run its original speedometer cable).

The AMC is actually one of my lower mileage vehicles at 147,945.

Bill Robertson
#5939


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@...> wrote:
>
> Assuming "almost 100M miles" is not a typo, how on earth did you rack up
> over 900,000 miles on a 2001 vehicle?
> 
> Farrar Hudkins
> #2613
> 
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:43 PM, <gmfm1@...> wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > I like old cars. My oldest is a 65 Mustang convertible, but I think that
> > the new cars are better made than the old ones and they are safer and will
> > last longer with just good maintenance. My 98 Grand Marquis is running
> > strong and after 80M+ miles, you still can't feel the engine running at a
> > stop light. My 2001 Sport Trac is almost at 100M miles and still going
> > strong. Back in the 60's & 70's you didn't even look at a car if it had
> > high milage.
> >
> > Gary Masie
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: content22207
> > Date: Thursday, March 15, 2012 1:27 pm
> > Subject: [DML] Re: JZD Was Brilliant!
> > To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > > No vehicle built after 1985 is even worth gas money.
> > >
> > > IMHO.
> > >
> > > Here's a good question: I use vehicles that are 30-35 years old
> > > as daily transportation, and regularly drive them 1,000+ miles
> > > on trips. Can you seriously imagine anything built in the year
> > > 2012 still being used as daily transportation by the middle of
> > > this century? We've crossed the Rubicon as far as vehicle
> > > longevity is concerned. Vehicles now are as disposable as
> > > diapers. That is why they all look so drab and uninspired --
> > > vehicles are no longer meant to kept as treasured possessions.
> > > You use them up in a couple of years then throw them away.
> > >
> > > IMHO.
> > >
> > > Bill Robertson
> > > #5939
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Bob Brandys wrote:
> > > >
> > > > As some of you know, we only drive old cars with our DeLoreans
> > > being our newest car.
> > > >
> > > > We were at a new car show last we and I tried to get into the
> > > cars. I could not get into these
> > > > cars unless I crouched down. I don't have this problem with
> > > our old cars. This was extremely annoying
> > > > especially since the roof lines are so low that they hit you
> > > in the side of the head if you don't crouch over.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I also got to test drive a Tesla once and would never go it
> > > again. You have to be a contortionist to get in and out of
> > > that car.
> > > >
> > > > So I wondered why don't I have this crouching over problem
> > > with the DeLorean. After all
> > > > it is a very low car.
> > > >
> > > > Well, it is the Gull Wing door design! Sure gull wind doors
> > > are cool. BUT- they make it easy to get in and out of a low
> > > sports car.
> > > >
> > > > Another example of JZDs Brilliant design!
> > > >
> > > > Bob
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sent from my laser-guided nuclear-powered refrigerator, operated by its
> crew of hyperintelligent pandimensional cyborg kittens, controlled remotely
> via telekinetic sonic screwdriver.
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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