85 year old woman drives car with 540,000 miles

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Old 08-02-2009, 06:26 AM
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grandma of the year
Old 08-04-2009, 07:09 PM
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Reminds me of that episode of Married with Children where Dodge wanted to pay Al to help them film a commercial of him going past the 1 million mile mark on his Dodge.... did they ever say what model it was on that show?
Old 08-04-2009, 11:20 PM
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^actually I think it was a Duster, which would be a Plymouth. Or a Dodge Dart. I just remember it being turd colored
Old 08-05-2009, 10:15 PM
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it is a good accomplishment. However, she's only averaging 12,000 miles a year not that many miles per year. my 94 Accord i just drive to work now i got 325,000 miles. averaging about 22,000 miles a year.
Old 08-06-2009, 12:52 AM
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wow! that's when american cars were built with pride and quality, hand built i think back in 1964.

i thought odometers didn't have 6 digits back then?
Old 08-06-2009, 02:04 AM
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Originally Posted by I Go To Costco
^actually I think it was a Duster, which would be a Plymouth. Or a Dodge Dart. I just remember it being turd colored

If I remember, it was supposed to be fire engine red, but the finish started peeling, rusting, getting sun damage, etc. so it turned that color. like a rusted turd

btw the video kind of makes you wonder if one could pull something like this in todays market, what with the economy and all. Either way it would be a bit risky, considering the shop you may get the warranty from could go under in no time.
Old 08-06-2009, 01:18 PM
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that is awesome!
Old 08-06-2009, 01:39 PM
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Incredible!

I wonder how many crazy politicians would love to see silica-sand & water dumped into that "clunkers" engine...and see grandma drive off with a Prius.
Old 08-12-2009, 06:57 AM
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haha that is one awesome granny, wouldn't wanna mess with her!
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I wonder how much she has spent on replacing parts/maintenance
Old 08-13-2009, 08:00 AM
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This is great, thanks for posting it.
Old 08-13-2009, 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted by DeusVictorae
I wonder how much she has spent on replacing parts/maintenance
Did you see where she always bought life time warranted parts?

She showed all the records and was saying how she had them replaced xx number of times.
Old 08-13-2009, 08:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Moog-Type-S
Incredible!

I wonder how many crazy politicians would love to see silica-sand & water dumped into that "clunkers" engine...and see grandma drive off with a Prius.
Um cars over 25 yrs old do not qualify for the Cash for Clunkers

Good try at injection Politics into this discussion
Old 08-15-2009, 04:28 AM
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honestly ,this is freaking amazing
Old 08-15-2009, 07:13 AM
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smart woman
Old 08-15-2009, 10:49 PM
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Yep, she rocks!
Old 08-17-2009, 04:50 PM
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That is so cool !!
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