Wow Just wow

[frogman68]

This article is just amazing hopefully in 43 yrs (if I am still here ) I will have done this with my truck ..

http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/custom/today/bal-to.cowherd30apr30,0,7055276.column?page=1

[Lt.Del]

Sounds like my first car, the 68 mustang, which had been a daily driver from 68 through my college days to 1990. But, that was only 22 years, not 50. But, she had over 330,000 miles on it in that time. I put three motors in it from 1984 to 1990.  I took the original out of her.  I still have that baby back home sittin in the pasture.

[80stepsideguy]

Well i dont got 100k on my 70 cougar convertible but i  have had the car since 1989 and it was my 1st car i ever drove to high school.Had the motor rebuilt in 1991 and since then only put 5k miles on the odometer (yes folks thats 5k miles on the car in 17 years, the odometer read 85k in 1989 and i started driving in 1990 and from march of 1990 till march of 1991 i put only 8k on the odometer then another 5k  from 1991-to present .

thanks
pat

[ccz145a]

Sgt, better go check that block. I put my 289 in my uncle's field and went back to get it 2yrs later, water had gotten in there and froze and cracked the block.

I had a plastic cover on it, too. The plywood on top fell or blew off and the plastic cracked.

One original A code 4bbl 289 with 10:1 compression bit the dust.

[Lt.Del]

I have an A code 4bl 289 on my 65 GT Convertible Mustange...she sits in the garage though---no water there. I have three other 289 2bl in various other mustangs sitting around the pasture...one day I'll get around to working on them.  I have a 350 4bl from my 79 chevy sittin outside w/ plastic over it---I took it out the truck when I got my 383 stroker.  I guess I'd better check on that.

[78BBSTEPSIDE]

I looked at a 74 stepside last fall that was sitting in a field, one of those supposed "real clean trucks and rust free", opened the doors and mice droppings fell to the ground and the mice went running, who knows what was living in the Hemi 392 that was in the bed of the truck all covered up! Needless to say I passed on both.

[VileZambonie]

I've got 300,000 original miles on my grand cherokee. Same powertrain it came with

[Bitzer!]

I've got 300,000 original miles on my grand cherokee. Same powertrain it came with

You musy drive like an old lady!!

[choptop]

My 81 3/4 ton had around 470,000 miles on it, on it's third engine, second transmission, need to replace the rear brake drums though, they are really thin. I just picked up a 61 T-bird from my step dad that was running like a dream about 14 years ago, he parked it in a barn for 5 then it was moved to a pasture, and the rats ate all of the wiring. Will take alot to get it back running, and being a Ford, I am not interested in it anymore now that I know it's condition. Sad though, it was a nice car.

[VileZambonie]

I've got 300,000 original miles on my grand cherokee. Same powertrain it came with

You musy drive like an old lady!!

Your mamma!   

[Bitzer!]

You want dents in all four corners then Vile 

[Blazin]

I have no clue how many miles on my 55, the odemeter has never worked since I got it. The one thing I do every time I get in it is think to my self, if this car could only talk!

[Stewart G Griffin]

The somewhat impressive thing is that he/they are the original owner;  There are plenty 55-57 running about---but most are on their 3rd or 4th owner.

i have a few concerns:

1)The car has turned 450,000 miles and the car is on it's 3rd engine.  Depending on when the first 2 engines were replaced, this strikes me as low usage out of the engines.

2)Were the 58 impala (same as bonneville, 88, lesabre etc.) built on the same chassis as the 55-57?  Because they look similar.

[gezn2]

The somewhat impressive thing is that he/they are the original owner;  There are plenty 55-57 running about---but most are on their 3rd or 4th owner.

i have a few concerns:

1)The car has turned 450,000 miles and the car is on it's 3rd engine.  Depending on when the first 2 engines were replaced, this strikes me as low usage out of the engines.

2)Were the 58 impala (same as bonneville, 88, lesabre etc.) built on the same chassis as the 55-57?  Because they look similar.

Considering the upgrades the owner has made I'd be willing to bet the first two engines came out *long* before they were worn out in any way
The article isn't clear, but it sounds like this fellow might still be running the optional '58 air-bag suspension, and that calls for some *serious* respect because those were pure poison within *months* of hitting the street, very few air suspension cars survive intact today
1958 was a profoundly weird year with GM, It was the first year of a new body and chassis for all the divisions and thanks to some corporate shenanigans all those designs wound up one-year-only, all the '59s were another clean-sheet body/chassis design
The story as the 'buff' magazines tell it is that it was a combination of GM Corporate going into full-on freakout mode when the Monster Tailfin '57 Mopars hit the street and set overnight sales records and rumblings out of Washington about anti-trust action against GM, they had well over 50% of the US market and by that point all the Independents were either DOA or reeling in a corner from all the punishment
The Feds were seriously talking about breaking up GM into several companies, so It's no coincidence that the all-new '59s were *all* built with the same cowl and front door stamping