High Odometer Mileage ?

[bentpshrods]

  I built my car to drive. Most weekends I go to the local car shows and afterwards I crank up the tunes and cruise around the valley. Usually put 50--100+ miles per trip on the car. Last weekend I just turned over 84,000 on my odometer. I've owned my car for a lot of years so I know this is original miles on it. Plus the fact that when I was young, I blew the AT tranny up, got married--had kids--buying a house ect ect --at about the same time, so the car sat in my garage for 22 years. When I got it it was my daily driver for years. Now just a weekend warrior but I'm making up for lost time .      Got me to wondering what kinda mileage is on yours. For 45+ year old cars some will have amazingly low mileage, while others will go the other way.  Back in my day when these old cars hit the 100,000 mile mark you were thinking rebuild or sell it before it really broke.  Now days mileage on the cars are not that important as most are restored back better than new.  Just hope they get driven.  Don't see that many E=bodies out and about around here (besides me).  Hers a pic from last week.     

[1 Wild R/T]

Mine when I bought it had about 47K on it... In that time it had been beaten to death.... When I restored it I zeroed out the odometer... Been driving it on nice days ever since... Just walked out & looked, 90259....

[70/6chall]

I like your story on high odometer reading, bentpshrods, I too bought my '70 Dodge Challenger years ago. I purchased my Dodge in 1973 from a Dodge dealership, it was a trade-in with 40K miles on the odometer for $1,100. I pressed it into service as a daily driver, to and from work. This was easy to do because it is a SL6 powered Dodge. So after 3 engines, 2 trans., 2 rear ends she accumulated 562K miles, on the car itself of course, not the mechanicals, these things wear out I retired a couple of years ago, and took the Dodge off the road prior to that. It's still a great looking car.   Thanks,   Al

[Cuda Cody]

I have a few cars with fairly low miles, but most of them were taken off the road to race.  As for real cars that were driven on the road, that's pretty low miles for being that old.     That's averaging out to under 1,900 miles a year. 

[usraptor]

My first '70 'Cuda that I bought new had approx 28K miles on it when I sold it in 1973.  My current '70 Cuda that I bought in 2009 had 100K+ on the odometer and had been in storage since 1983 when I bought it so the original owner was definitely not shy about driving it.  I have since zeroed the odometer and with any luck will start racking up some miles by the end of the this summer.   

[6bblgt]

didn't quite make that 100K - 96725 & needs the 3-Rs just about everything rebuilt/restored/replaced 

[1 Wild R/T]

didn't quite make that 100K - 96725 & needs the 3-Rs just about everything rebuilt/restored/replaced 

And ?  When's the project start?      

[6bblgt]

it started already - its the finish line is difficult to determine 

[1 Wild R/T]

I've been looking at you signature picture for years wondering when it would live again.... I'm guessing it'll be an OE type restoration?

[bentpshrods]

    This leads up to another question?    When most guys doing a complete tear down and rebuild ---do you like 1 Wild R/T did, reset the odometer back to zero. I think I would if I had gone that far.  These cars are starting back out better than new in most cases.  Do the dashes on GYC or others that come back from a restoration shop automatically get zeroed.  A question for Alan==do all your builds get reset ?   

[303 Mopar]

When I restored my Challenger, I reset the odometer because I felt that it had a second life and had no background on the car.  Unless your car has low mileage, is all original like @bentpshrods, was bought new in your family or some other specific reason I think it really doesn't matter what the odometer says.

[Cuda Cody]

Full restorations, as in it's basically a new car with new or rebuilt trans, rear, engine, paint, interior.... then start at the beginning.  Zero.   

[ec_co]

love to hear about daily drivers, helps keep public interest and there is always the drool factor on the rare occasion I see one. when mine is done it will be a mostly daily driver, they are meant to be driven 

[RUNCHARGER]

I like to leave the OD's original miles myself.

[YellowThumper]

280,000ish miles.
Bought it in 83 with 168,000 on the clock.
Original untouched 318 and manual 3 spd.
I ended the engines life soon after. One more 318 and 2 360s hard driven later here I am.
Still boasts most of original paint and also now the 4spd.