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Old 07-30-2009, 11:28 AM
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85 year old woman drives car with 540,000 miles
Interesting story - she's got a great security system and bought every lifetime warranty she could find..........

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Old 07-30-2009, 11:43 AM
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that woman is awesome!!!

Why isnt my grandma that cool?
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Old 07-30-2009, 12:50 PM
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Love the fact that companies are making good on their warranties and the gun part was awesome too.
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one of the best stories i've seen in a long time. she even packs heat under her seat


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awsome!

I love the fact she has lifetime warranties on things that are 40 years old and business have to honor them. One smart lady.
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Old 07-30-2009, 01:49 PM
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Great story. And I absolutely love the automotive provenance on the car.


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Old 07-30-2009, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by OLD_HATCH

I love the fact she has lifetime warranties on things that are 40 years old and business have to honor them. One smart lady.
I wonder if any of the vendors such as Midas has ever approached her for marketing reasons. Most never keep a car as long as her, or if they do, don't put on as many miles, but I wonder if any companies have ever considered using her and her car to promote their warranty guaranties.

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that is cool. cool granny
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Originally Posted by teranfon
I wonder if any of the vendors such as Midas has ever approached her for marketing reasons. Most never keep a car as long as her, or if they do, don't put on as many miles, but I wonder if any companies have ever considered using her and her car to promote their warranty guaranties.

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It would be a good idea considering you have to fight with most places to honor your warranty. Im actually quite shocked she is still getting things replaced under her warranties. I have lifetime warranties on some things that I have just written off. Two that come to mind are brake pads for my explorer and a bracelet I bought for my fiance. The parts store refuses to give me any more pads under my "lifetime" warranty because of how many sets I have received from them. Hey its not my fault the truck has lots of miles and goes through pads like crazy. My fiance's bracelet keeps coming apart but even with the "lifetime" replacement warranty they would only replace it twice and they said thats it.
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Originally Posted by teranfon
I wonder if any of the vendors such as Midas has ever approached her for marketing reasons. Most never keep a car as long as her, or if they do, don't put on as many miles, but I wonder if any companies have ever considered using her and her car to promote their warranty guaranties.

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If they haven't, they should. She would be better then Jared!
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Very cool story. What a relationship she has with that car.
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If they haven't, they should. She would be better then Jared!
Considering her security system, Smith & Wesson may want to talk to her as well.



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Inspiring, and realistic with her views on license renewal for the elderly.
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THAT'S CALIENTE!

The car and the story, not the lady. Come on guys
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Wonderful story and woman. I LOVE how she thought it was a joke that they gave her a 5 year drivers license when she turned 85. She says "thats not safe! you should test me every year" -So True

-- also where the source on this video?
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That's pretty cool. You don't want to mess with that lady!
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Wow, great story! Grannie's freaking awesome!!!
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that reminds me of a guy around here, drove his honda to 600k miles, finall decided to get a new one in 2007, honda offered him free leases for the rest of his life for loyalty
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Great story. And I absolutely love the automotive provenance on the car.


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Way to make me use the dictionary.
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Originally Posted by The Dougler
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Sorry!

In regards to older cars, readily collectable or not, provenance is everything.



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Originally Posted by STL+3.0CL
Wonderful story and woman. I LOVE how she thought it was a joke that they gave her a 5 year drivers license when she turned 85. She says "thats not safe! you should test me every year" -So True

-- also where the source on this video?
My friend sent it to me from this site. The rest of the site is not interesting.

http://growingbolder.com/media/techn...d-259598..html
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NICE...She's awesome.
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damn. i wish to be the same way one day if the right car is ever invented that I would actually want to drive for the next 50 years.

and +1 for keeping all paperwork and warranties on your car. saves you big money.
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Wow, I hope I can be like that one day. AWESOME gramma!
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My grandma can't walk...
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My grandma can't walk...


And my other one died about 30 years ago.

And kudos for this spritely young lady for keeping her wits about her, and toting the finest hardware to back up her warranty.
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