42,750. Still breaking it in. The Roadster is at 37,998.
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42,750. Still breaking it in. The Roadster is at 37,998.
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Originally Posted by Don Adolfo
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Loved driving the Roadster last Fall...a favorite/awesome memory for Erin and I! Thanks again and glad to see you checking in as well!
Thanks guys. Spring kept me very busy around the house; coaching running, too. I also have my parents with me for a few more days. We need to go for another drive!
As promised...
Here are pics of my Mustang, Roxy, with 8k original miles.
I'm putting together my submission for BringATrailer.com, so stay tuned!
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What a beauty !
8000 miles in 40 years? I don't understand the purpose of that.
Really? I totally understand. Lemme try...Quote:
Originally Posted by stephenkirsh
It was driven sparingly (obviously). It was saved for special occasions. Car shows. Weekend cruises. It was something to be loved, cherished and savored, not "used". It's, for the most part, almost exactly like it was when it was sitting on the dealer showroom in 1966. It's a time capsule. It's like sipping a fine wine or savoring a dessert as opposed to wolfing it down as fast as you can. Driving it once in awhile (as opposed to all the time) is like denying yourself that cheesecake you love because if you had it everyday, it wouldn't be special anymore. It's an heirloom to be passed down as opposed to something to "replace". It's something to be cared for and loved rather than "used up". It's a collectible, like a gun that's only ever fired a few rounds.
You can drive a car and you can put 100,000 or 200,000 miles on it. When it's 30 or 40 years old, you can repaint it, you can put new suspension parts on it, you can put new glass in it you can get the seats and dash redone, but it will still be a restored car. It will never be like it was when it had 8,000 miles on it. Ever.
Preservation isn't for everybody, but thank God some people do it, or almost no cars would ever be around 30 or 40 years later, since like washing machines or refrigerators, they'd reach the end of their useful life, be all be used up, and eventually recycled into raw material. That raw material would go to build a new car many of us here wouldn't love as much.
I get driving a car, and I get preserving one.
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BTW, here's my personal experience with preservation:
My old man has an '87 Buick Grand National. If you don't know much about it, I'll give you the quick run-down: By today's standards, it's nothing special performance-wise, but in 1987 it was pretty damn special. It was a Buick Regal - a Buick. The quintessential GM grocery-getter. This one was different, though. It had a turbocharged and inter-cooled V6 that made it faster down the strip than any production car built that year, including a Ferrari. It came in exactly one color: Black. The only thing on the car's exterior that wasn't black were the chrome wheels (also black), and the chrome/black badging.
We drove it... For the first few years. Not a lot, but plenty. We took it on a few road-trips and drove it on weekends. He did some light, reversible modding on it (chip, CAI, exhaust), but kept it otherwise pretty pristine. Not much later, he parked it and only took out for those special occasions I mentioned.
Now, almost 30 years later, it's probably one of the nicest Grand Nationals anywhere. There are a few extremely low-mileage cars, even a few that were hardly driven, but they're damn few and far between at this point. Many were turned into sub-10-second drag cars, and most of the rest have 80, 90 or 100k miles on them, along with the door dings, rock chips, swirls, chalky paint, and interior wear/tear that goes along with the miles and years. My dad's is just shy of 20k miles and looks damn near like it's brand new. The paint is beautiful, the interior is almost perfect, and it's never seen salt, snow, or even much rain. It was a little special in terms of automative history, but it's even more special now.
Eventually, I'll buy it from him, and I'll take care of it the same way. I'll drive it sparingly, and those times in the car will be special. Memorable. In 20 years, it'll be like that Mustang.
If I ever really come into some serious money, I'll buy its meaner brother, the GNX, so it has some company, and it'll be in a sweet garage with a couple of M3's. :)
Cheers,
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