And the high mileage winner is.....

[LUVMBDiesels]

VOLVO??!!

I was looking for the article on the Greek Mercedes Benz that had gone over 2 million miles when I came across this one about a Volvo P1800 (my favorite Volvo) 2.6 million miles? One engine? Get outta here!

Man with 2.6 million-mile Volvo P1800 aims for 3 million

Thursday 20th of December 2007 Post by : Staff
Filed under: Maintenance, Etc., Hatchbacks, Volvo

click above image for more pics of the 2.6 million-mile Volvo P1800

We've reported on high-mileage cars here before. There was the Jetta diesel that Volkswagen found in Ohio with 562,000 miles on its odometer. Then there was the Saab 900 that had traveled 1,001,385 miles in its lifetime. Finally, there was also a 1995 Dodge Ram that passed the million-mile mark. We know of these cars because Volkswagen, Saab and Dodge sought them out and have been using their mere existence as marketing tools. At least the driver of the Volkswagen was given a 1-year lease on a new Volkswagen Touareg V10 TDI. The Dodge Ram owner got a call from Tom LaSorda and a book about DaimlerChrysler's history, while the Saab owner actually had to buy himself a new set of Swedish wheels.

All high-mileage vehicles still traveling our nation's roads, however, must tip their rusty hats to this one, Irv Gordon's 1966 Volvo P1800 with 2.6 million miles under its belt-line. Gordon has been the only owner of this P1800 since it was purchased new in 1966. A 125-mile round trip daily commute and a penchant for regular maintenance got the car this far, and in 1998 it made the Guinness Book of World Records at just 1.69 million miles.

Since retired from teaching science, Gordon now plans on hitting the 3 million-mile mark sometime in the next five years. Keep in mind, he's slowed down to 80,000 miles/year from his record pace of over 100,000 miles/year in 2002. While not promising to retire the car once it hits 3 million miles, Gordon says he might break down before the car does. We hope if that if he does reach that milestone, Volvo will pony up a free replacement for his Energizer Bunny-esqe P1800. How about a C30?

[Source: Volvo]

[Jim B.]

That guy is a legend among Volvo enthusaists, every one of them knows about him.

He bought that car brand new in New York in 1966 and still drives it.

Volvo now pays him to drive it all over the country for public relations purposes, and it shows up at car shows and staged publicity events now and then.

The engine on it has been rebuilt a couple of times, I think, but the story about the man and that car is very well documented and true.

[SwampYankee]

How can that be? I've read that every diesel Benz will go for ONE MILLION MILES or more! Bwah hah hah hah hah!

Actually that's very cool! If I drove everywhere for business I couldn't rack up that kind of mileage.

[CamelotShadow]

Cool Volvo,
Wow, I know they can run almost forever
but that one has some lines
not like my 740 GLE 88 box w 125,000miles

[H-townbenzoboy]

Originally Posted by SwampYankee

How can that be? I've read that every diesel Benz will go for ONE MILLION MILES or more! Bwah hah hah hah hah!

You also forgot, you can run them on used grease and get 50mpg!