1991 Chevy truck hits 1million miles

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FOXNews.com - Wisconsin Man Says He's on Verge of Putting Millionth Mile on His 1991 Chevy Silverado - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

Frank Oresnik is on the verge of making history driving his old standby -- the pickup truck he says is about to pass the 1 million mile mark.
Oresnik took the 1991 Chevrolet Silverado to the Oil Ex-Change Quick Lube in Medford on Thursday for what he expects will be its last oil change and tuneup before hitting the magic number.
He said the truck is 1,200 miles from a million, and once he hits the mark he will retire the vehicle.

The truck has had four radiators, three gas tanks, five transmissions and six water pumps, but the engine has never been overhauled, Oresnik said.

wow makes me want to second guess selling my 1991 suburban with 164K miles

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There seems to be one of these popping up every week now.

Theres a 2 million mile volvo on original engine and tranny ~2 years ago that it hit the record.
Man with 2.6 million-mile Volvo P1800 aims for 3 million - Autoblog

1 Million mile Saab
Car does 1 million miles, retires to museum - Wonderful World - MSNBC.com

1 million mile dodge
Chrysler CEO calls owner of million mile Dodge Ram - Autoblog

and the latest , a 1997 Ford E-250, about to hit 1 million miles with the ORIGINAL transmission , engine, water pump, and starter, and only 1 radiator :-P
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The 1966 Volvo with 2.6 millions miles is gasoline...
but the VW with 560K+ miles was diesel, the dodge 3500 is diesel, not sure if the saab is but I assume so since it was a turbo model and most of their turbo models back then were diesel...
This particular Chevy is gasoline, not diesel... diesels always have a much higher life expectancy so it is great seeing gasoline engines get these high mileage awards as well

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The Saab was a gasoline engine.

Anyways, its doesn't matter that the engine lasts longer, its the car around the engine. Whens the last time you've seen a dodge transmission last 1 million miles (except maybe an old 727).

Most people throw out cars usually if they hit a massive transmission failure, or the car just rots away, in most cases the engine is the last thing to go :-/

But yeah, a good built gasser car can do quite a few miles.

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very true, I have seen all sorts of miles from different vehicles I have owned...
200K+ with a 1979 chevy Luv (with Isuzu 4cyl engine)
180K miles with 1989 Olds Cutlass Ciera 4cyl
210K with a 1995 Nissan Pathfinder with 2.5L V6
300K with 1975 Chevy 1500 pickup 350 V8
164K miles with my current 1991 Chevy suburban with 454 V8

The lowest mileage vehicle I have ever owned was our 2001 Nissan Pathfinder that had 40K miles when we bought it and sold it at 81K miles 2 years later