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To: Spktyr

A Marine friend put 280,000 miles on his little blue Toyota SR5 2WD pickup. He’d still be driving it if it wasn’t for his wife’s insistence on an automatic.


61 posted on 01/13/2009 11:49:55 AM PST by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: 12Gauge687
A Marine friend put 280,000 miles on his little blue Toyota SR5 2WD pickup. He’d still be driving it if it wasn’t for his wife’s insistence on an automatic.

The first vehicle I ever bought was a 1985 Toyota SR5 2wd. I put 110,000 miles on it, then sold it to my mother for $500. It still had the original belts and hoses on it, and they looked brand new. My mother drove it for 2 years, then gave it to my sister. She drove it for 3 years and gave it back to my mother, who drove it for several more years, then sold it to a fellow for $500 when it had about 200,000 miles on it. As far as I know, he's still driving it. In all the time it was in my family, we never had to do anything to it beyond routine maintenance.

116 posted on 01/14/2009 4:49:10 AM PST by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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