Being faithful to one car...

is already difficult, to have driven it for 45 years and clocked close to 3,000,000 miles is definitely a world record. Many vintage car owners have much older cars than him but kept in the garage most of the time and taken for rides occasionally. We have a 1961 and a 1966 Sunbeam Alpine which are off the road for a number of years. To just claim ownership without the mileage is like the joke about the Indian who was to celebrate 50th wedding anniversary by announcing to guests at a function in London, which had him as a guest speaker about his long marriage, that he will be bringing home his wife from Mumbai since he left her there 25 years ago!

(Simon Templer aka The Saint would have been proud of him)

'Irv Gordon from East Patchogue, New York, and his 1966 Volvo P1800, have completed over 2.9 million miles together. If you're after an arbitrary comparison to offer some perspective, that's around six round-trips to the moon, or over 116 circumnavigations of Earth.

By 1998 Gordon and his Volvo had made it into the Guinness Book of World Records at 1.69 million miles, more than anyone else in a single-owner non-commercial vehicle, and by 2002 they'd reached 2 million miles. It also means Irv is in the enviable position of breaking records with every mile he drives.

Three million miles is easily within reach, and Gordon expects to hit that target in the next couple of years. "In honor of the P1800's 50th anniversary, I'd like to reaffirm my goal of reaching three million miles within the next two years" explains Gordon...'

Source:

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/the-first-car-to-3-million-miles-.html

Compare and contrast with this:

http://kosongcafe.blogspot.com/2011/04/oldest-living-owner-of-car-from-new.html

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