Particularly hailworthy: 1967 Dodge Dart, 1990 Volvo 740. Both those cars
deserved a funeral procession with brass band.
-- I put 190K on the Dart with nothing but tuneups, oil changes, and break
jobs. I would probably have it still, but it got stolen and stripped at 190K.
It was like somebody raped my granmother.
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Even better than the Dark was the Plymouth Valiants, a slant
six with a push button auto. I bought a late 50s station wagon used in 1969 and
drove it until 1972 when I was in a freeway accident that totaled it. It wasn't
running right when I got it for 125.00, so I put in spark plugs, voila and
changed the oil.
I got my 1983 Honda Station Wagon in 1990 and drove it until 2009, and it was
on somewhere over 180k. I had the engine rebuilt by a machine shop and the
interior replaced. Then one day in June 2009 I started it up and something went
bang and it was missing like chazy. I assumed the headgasket went.
It was more than time to say goodbye. The roof leaked in the rain, the engine
was touchy about temperature, the tires were going to need replacement soon,
the muffler had small holes, it just barely passed smog...
It's replacement was a 1995 Toyota small truck It gets almost the same miles
per gallon and everything works except the speedometer. It's stuck at 110k.
I am crossing my fingers, but my luck with cars has been very good. I certainly
understand giving the old Honda a New Orleans send off. All it need was a drive
test dummie in a tux with a lily.
CG
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