1966 Volvo Clocks Up Its Three Millionth Mile

[Jazzy]

The owner of a 1966 Volvo has clocked up three million miles to claim a place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Irv Gordon bought the red P1800 on June 30 47 years ago and has been driving it ever since.

"The day I first bought the car I picked it up on a Friday night and started driving around town and showing it off to all of my friends and local pubs and wherever else," Mr Gordon said.

"Before I knew it, I was up in New Jersey and up in Connecticut and went back to my college in Massachusetts."

He said the qualifications he was looking for in a car were simple: reliability and dependability.

"I was very happy when I figured I got a car that's going to be reliable and dependable, and well, I am still driving it today," Mr Gordon said.

On March 27, 2002, he was awarded the world record for the greatest ever recorded mileage by a single owner of a vehicle when he hit two million miles.

In just over 11 years, Mr Gordon was able to add another million to his odometer.

He reached three million miles while driving in Alaska.

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They sure don't make 'em like they used to. Nice looking car too. Man, he sure likes to drive, eh?

 

[Evil Eye]

Pretty durable

 

[DrLeftover]

The most I've been able to get out of a vehicle was almost 400,000 out of a van and 250,000 out of a pickup.

 

[Jazzy]

The most I've been able to get out of a vehicle was almost 400,000 out of a van and 250,000 out of a pickup.

Very impressive. Who made the van?

 

[DrLeftover]

The van was a used 1980 Ford E-150 cargo van (no rear seats or side windows) with a manual transmission and a straight 6 engine.

The solder and wiring on the back of dashboard had caught fire at one point, the liner of the gas tank had collapsed so you could only put 10 gallons in it, and I drove it the final six months on a blown head gasket. But it was still running when I traded it in, on four and a half cylinders out of six.

The pickup was a 1976 Chevy one ton. With a big block v8 and a massive four barrel Rochester Quadrajet carburetor on top. You could drop three and a half tons of gravel in the bed and drive off with it, which I did on a couple of occasions, and I was its third owner, when it was new, it belonged to some county in Maryland. But the down side was that I think my 35 foot motorhome gets better gas mileage than that thing did and it will average between 10 and 12 MPG on a really good day. It died one day when the engine tried to chew up and spit out a valve.