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Offline ChallengerHK

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Re: Serious question about owning and driving an e body?
« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2007 - 09:07:38 PM »
Bought my Challenger in April of 78. It had about 32000 miles when I bought it (I think) and it's got about 132,000 now, but almost all of that was put on it before 1987. Since I put the 340 in it a couple of years back I've put about 2,000 on it.


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Re: Serious question about owning and driving an e body?
« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2007 - 09:16:25 PM »
I got my 71 Challenger RT in Feb. of 1989 and have put around 45,000 miles on it since then. My 70 Cuda I bought in April of 2000 and finished restoring it last year and I have put around 1,800 miles on it since it was finished.


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Re: Serious question about owning and driving an e body?
« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2007 - 10:48:40 PM »
I got mine in 1996, and put about 9000 miles on it.  It was in storage for a few years.
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Re: Serious question about owning and driving an e body?
« Reply #18 on: May 05, 2007 - 02:20:42 AM »
I got my first Cuda in 1996 and only put about  two hundred miles on it. My 71 Grand Coupe was never put into shape to drive before I sold it. My current 73 Cuda was bought in March 06 and has probably only had a couple hundred miles on it before I was deployed in July 06.
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Re: Serious question about owning and driving an e body?
« Reply #19 on: May 05, 2007 - 07:07:16 AM »
Bought mine...March 9, 1979 with 92,836 miles on it. Just read the odo this morning and have 198,720mi. That's about 3,800mi/year with it being off the road for 3 years in the mid '90's. Probably even more because I had the wrong speedo gear in it for way too long.
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Re: Serious question about owning and driving an e body?
« Reply #20 on: May 05, 2007 - 07:55:23 AM »
 I got mine sometime in early 1976 before my 16th birthday. With my learners permit in hand I drove it to drivers training, parked in the back where the instructor could not see me, then jumped in the "student driver" car to learn how to drive.  

 Can't recall how many miles were actually on it less than 40k I believe. Drove it everyday until the early eighty's, except when the motor was blown of coarse. That happened many times due to youthful exuberance. :working: I have about 5000 miles on motor #7  

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Re: Serious question about owning and driving an e body?
« Reply #21 on: May 05, 2007 - 08:36:01 AM »
We have some guys who have put 100,000 miles on their cars.  That's impressive.  :ylsuper: I doubt I can claim to be to 1,000 miles yet. 

Only owned mine for a year now.