I finally made it to the quarter million mile club! Last night, driving home from the airport. I need to transfer the pic from my phone to the PC. I took it this morning.

I am 50,000 miles away from beating an old '83 (Datsun) Nissan Maxima I had. It finally quit after 300,000 miles. Engine on it died, tranny was still strong. Since it was the ex-wife's car, It got donated to her sister, who's hubby said he could put another engine in it...that never happened, so the sold it for scrap.

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RRGrassi


70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

91 W124 300D Turbo replaced, Pressure W/G actuator installed. 210K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

Unofficially I hit it about a month ago. Officially, my odometer stopped working 3 months ago at 248,846. Gonna fix it when I get back from vacation.

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Sharing my partner's 2012 Forte 5dr SX til I find my next 123 or 126..
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Do I miss being a service advisor ???

Nice job Ralphie! Car looks too good to have 1/4 million miles on it. Sure is nice to have that many miles on it and be cold in the summer.
I'm 20K away in the Squash, but have decided I'm gonna sell that one so somebody else will hit the mark in it.
The wagon is about 28K away, and the most likely for me to hit the mark in.
China is still under 150K, but the engine {from Scar, rip} has about 306K. Runs great too.
I love the odo pics folks have. Truly a badge of honor with these cars.....

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

Thanks Jimmy! Well, the failed clear coat on the roof and trunk lend to the aged look...

Squash is a pretty car...If I could afford it...

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RRGrassi


70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

91 W124 300D Turbo replaced, Pressure W/G actuator installed. 210K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

Congratulations!

I was getting new rear tires mounted last night at PepBoys and the wagon created quite a stir there. I watched like a hawk to make sure nobody screwed anything up. Anyway ... a few guys came out to chat with me due to their amazement at my wagon having 370K miles and running so well.

I had a similar experience earlier this week at the garage where it passed state inspection. It's cool when you get positive comments along with ooohs and ahhs.

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Chad
2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

That reminds me.....I took some pics of "baby polar bear" today at lunch. One of them is the odometer. Will start a separate thread tonight.

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daw_two
Germantown, TN

Links:
Sold last car --- 05/2012 1984 300D Light Ivory, Red interior
Cluster Needles Paint
New Old Stock (NOS) parts

Past:
3/2008 1986 300SDL "Coda"
04/2010 1965 190D(c) "Ben"
& many more

Ok, here is the pic...It was taken just after I started the engine, before I left for work.

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RRGrassi


70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

91 W124 300D Turbo replaced, Pressure W/G actuator installed. 210K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

Wow, I've got a long way to go!! O_O

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Current cars:
2000 ML55 AMG, 174k miles
2003 C240 T-Modell, 202k miles
1995 S320, 207k Miles

Consider that my car is 26 y/o, it still equates to less than 10k miles per year of age. You 85 and 89 have excellent low mileage bragging rights.

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RRGrassi


70's Southern Pacific #5608 Fairmont A-4 MOW car

13 VW JSW 2.0 TDI 193K, Tuned with DPF and EGR Delete.

91 W124 300D Turbo replaced, Pressure W/G actuator installed. 210K

90 Dodge D250 5.9 Cummins/5 speed. 400K

300,326 miles

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85 300d in progress

330 and rolling

I really wish I had had the dough to rebuild the engine.

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http://superturbodiesel.com/images/sig.04.10.jpg
1995 E420 Schwarz
1995 E300 Weiss
#1987 300D Sturmmachine
#1991 300D Nearly Perfect
#1994 E320 Cabriolet
#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
OBK #42