"Original Miles"....

[t.klapperich]

If the miles aren't original, does that mean that they are unoriginal miles? WTF does that mean???

Ha, Ha, Ha Good point Midlife !!! I like that one !!

 

[OpiemusRex]

Mine has 89,000 and I tend to believe that is accurate. The car was owned by the local Mustang club president's daughter. She died and he stored the car for around 12 years. It had only a trivial amount of rust except aroung the intake for the a/c intake plenum.

I really don't care though, I have replaced all the suspension and just about everything that moves or matters. But, then again I may be totally wrong, but it still doesn't bother me.

 

[mustbrad]

I bought mine at 91000 just over 115000 now can trace back to 1980 most rag tops are less than half of the others.

 

[Graham Man]

I would only believe what is documented. I always keep a copy of the old title for the car, and any documentation they have of oil changes, maintenance receipts stuff that can document miles over time. That said the average 72 Mustang life time was about 8 years/150k miles or less, so all of our cars are low mileage or they would not be here.

Any old car is about condition not miles (except in extremely extremely rare instances). I would take a clean body and a seized engine any day.

 

[HighOctane]

I bought my car from the original owner and it had 107,000 on it. It now is almost ready to trip 110,000. The original owner took extremely good care of her vehicles so I do not doubt the mileage. It still has the original suspension, engine, etc. except I had to change the strut rod bushings.

When I bought my car she also had a 1963 Buick Electra 225 Convertible. White on White on White with 225k in excellent shape. I am not a GM guy but if I had the money for both I would have seriously considered it.

It really comes down to how well a car is taken care of and not the miles.

 

[Jim and Jutta]

Truth is unless you're the original owner, you can't honestly say what the actual miles are. I bought mine from the second owner, he said it only had around 54,000 on it, he had bought it with the intention of restoring it but it set in stoarge for several years and he never got around to it. Vehicle registration documents he produced showed he had only put a couple of hundred miles on it all the years he had it in storage. He also had a box full of documents provided by the original owner showing repairs, registrations, maintance etc all indicating it had around 54,000 miles on it.

I've got about 58,000 miles on it now. Bottom line, I wouldn't bet money on those being actual miles, but maybe, just maybe they are, I'll never know.

Jim

 

[Tnfastbk]

I guess the big thing is, If you restore a car ORIGINAL miles really not relevant.

 

[hyena429]

I guess the big thing is, If you restore a car ORIGINAL miles really not relevant.

Yup...Its like that story about the guy and his mustang with over 600,000 mile..im not sure what he gots now on it..he is the original owner..but the motor been rebuilt and all sorts of things..that is not original miles too me...Same with the currant world record holder...A volvo with 3 million miles...all thou the motor been rebuild a few times...And sence no one else kept such records im sure there is some rebuild old 1930' or 40' or even 50's car driving around today with more rebuilt miles then both of them put together...lol