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CraigsList Find of the Decade: 930,000 mile '95 Honda Civic
Filed under: Coupes, Etc., Honda
There's high mileage, and then there's this. A 1995 Honda Civic is for sale in Atlanta with, count 'em, 939,899 miles. That's 200+ miles a day. Every day. Including Sundays. For 12 years. It even has a Carfax report from when the car had 907,000 miles on it. According to the seller, the car runs like new, with no leaks, no noises, no oil burning, and not even a scratch on the body. In fact, the only blemish listed is that one of the dashboard lights doesn't work, and that's only sometimes.
The car is on its ninth timing belt, ninth water pump, and fourth clutch. But the engine and transmission are original, as are the floor mats. The car even comes with records. The most incredible thing isn't the mileage, though. It's how the owner put the miles on the car: driving on business trips from Atlanta... to Seattle... and San Francisco. We want to know what kind of business -- or what kind of boss -- makes a guy drive across the country and back, and then some, every single month for 12 straight years.
To paraphrase The Proclaimers, if you buy this car then you can drive a million miles and you can drive a million more...
Thanks for the tip, Ronnie!
dam thats alot of driving
I would have kept it for another 70K to watch the odometer roll.
anyone smell a new Honda commercial?
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Thats nuts....Ive seen a Chevy half ton pickup make it to a million on the original motor.
geez and i thought the kid i went to hs with that has 500,000 on his jetta was alot
Pretty insane to drive over 200 miles per day, how can the person still be sane!
Excellent find Darkstars! Looks like its on BBS wheels...
I wonder How many sets of tires he burned through?
sounds like he spent almost as much time driving as he did working lol
A testament to proper maintenance.
wow. whats the record for the most miles on a stock motor?
12.5@116 2.0 60ft
What's funnier: If you maintain a GM engine, It'll last as long.
GM Used to have a Million Mile club in the 50-70's... They had about 20,000 members If I remember.
damn, i'd be happy if either one of my vehicles could get half that. pretty impressive.
GO PATS!!!
There is a guy in my hometown that drives a Chevy pickup to and from Chicago nearly every day. I believe it is an early '90's truck, and not too long ago hit the million mile mark. The motor and transmission were never rebuilt, and very few parts were replaced on it. Had a big story about it in our local paper. GM even contacted him about doing a possible advertisement and looking into how it was maintained so well. Pretty cool.
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lol going for the ol K&N warrenty
12.5@116 2.0 60ft
This is why my next car is going to be a Honda..
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Watching you parade around my bedroom in a thong was a little like watching sea lions mate.
and i was proud as hell the day i put 50K even on my car.... from the time i got my license... haha im such a rookie! thats amazing though
my car now has 98.5K miles
JinxedZ THE LOVED ONE wrote:A testament to proper maintenance.
Couldn't have said it better.
I'd say more than anything its because he took care of the car like he was suppose to
I thought my moms Chevy Blazer that is about to roll 300k was impressive.
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I remember watching letterman one night and he had a guy in an 80's rabbit/ or cabroit? drive around the block until he hit 1 mill and vw gave him a new jetta...this had to have been in 2002ish...as I was driving and in high school still. I thought it was funny as every 10 minutes they would check in with the guy as he was driving around the block untill he hit 1 mil.
wow... I keep up on maintenance, but at 130,000 miles I feel like my '95 tahoe is going to rattle apart before the engine ever dies.
That may very well be true! I think you could probably get a motor/transmission to last damn near forever with normal use as long as you perform maintenance..but it's the rest of the car that usually falls apart....at least imo
Will race for food
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i just cant fathom that being correct without the owner replaceing every part on it. I mean what is he on his 10th set of shocks and springs?....lets be honest...
