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From: scooper@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephan Cooper )
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Re: auto wanted
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 10:35:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 10:35:31 1985
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Reply-To: scooper@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephan Cooper (CTAB) <scooper>)
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>> 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.

>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.

How about this one then?
A friend of mine acquired a 1967 Ford Falcon (hardly a sports car) from
his father a little over a year ago.  It had a little over 40,000 miles
on it...original!  It was used every day by that family (of course it
was only about 5 miles per day) for work.  True, they also had a large
station wagon, but that usually stayed home for the mother.  Since my
friend has gotten ahold of it, he's put more miles on it, but this startled
me when I realized it.  And the family is in no way car aficiandfos.

-Steve Cooper