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From: dca@edison.UUCP (David C. Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: auto wanted
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 09:34:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 30 09:34:18 1985
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> Har har and yuk yuk to you Dave!!  My 64 Chevy (Corvette) has just
> over 60,000 miles (no, it's not gone around once).  I don't find
> the request for that mileage to be to unreasonable.  I also have
> a 1957 automobile that just turned over 120,000, that's only about
> 4,200 a year.  Maybe we could find out who has the oldest car
> (older then 1970 let's say) with the least number of miles/year.
> Might be interesting.
> 
> Phil Gunsul (with a 2,857 miles/year 1964!)

Apparently there are more cars out there not being driven
than I would have thought.  Even so I don't think your case is particularly
a fair comparison.  I could easily believe there are a large number
of people out there that own sports cars and only drive them occasionaly
to keep them in good shape and beat the family sedan to death instead.
However, I don't consider the cars in the original article anything
like a sports car.  I also hadn't considered that some car aficianados
have an entire car lot in their driveway therefore must divide a
reasonable yearly mileage by the number of cars they drive.

David Albrecht
General Electric