Million-Mile Camaro

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Add this to your list of million-mile cars: a sweet elderly lady in Florida has managed to rack up 1.1 million miles on her 1970 Camaro. Emma Ely bought the car new, and attributes its longevity to vigilant maintenance, including religious observance of the 3000-mile oil change, throughout her 38 years of ownership. Nice job, and we’re sure this pampered SBC will provide many more years of service! More pics below the jump, and check out the news video on the Camaro here.

Source: Jalopnik.

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Posted at 2:31 am in Camaro, Chevrolet, Chevy, Jen Dunnaway

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mynickel
Aug 13, 2008 at 9:05 am

It is possible I my self drove a 86 pontiac ove 325, I owned rubbish trucks and ran cummins i had 87 white rolloff allison automatic had over 900k on the engine and trans did an inframe rebuild as prevention
but could have easily went well past the mil. when it comes to trucks
paring up the right chasis plus the right running gear for the application. and of coarse the climate is also a key component like
ca where i am or the sunbelt states i currently have a 89 silverado
2500 ser. with over 325k still drive it every day just starters and alt. and water/p but 3 transm. rebuilt using the same trans.

Oafman
Jul 16, 2008 at 9:50 pm

Ever notice how the people who absolutely disagree with a blog post never put their name on their response? I wonder why…. Mr post “Jul 15, 2008 10:04:01 AM” step up to the plate if you are going to claim ‘definitive’ proof that this is impossible. My wife’s grandfather drove for B & P trucking in the 50′s and 60′s then owned his own company for about 5 then drove for Schneider for about 20-25 years. While with Scheinder he put 1 mil on his first truck then almost put another mil on his second truck before her retired. The whole million mile thing happens more often than you think it does. It is just rare to see on a sports car. Most sports cars are abused so they do not see that many miles. With care even a Yugo could get a million miles. (but who would want to?)

NobiZero
Jul 16, 2008 at 3:21 am

Ok. Here’s how it’s possible.
I’ve seen a ’91 Saturn with 400k on it, and it still runs. Mind you after 17 winters in New England, it looks the worse for wear, but it’s still running. Now, if that’s an 18 year old car with 400k on it, do the math to get 22,223 miles per year. Easily doable.

Also keep in mind that lots of people from New England own property in Florida, for a few reasons. One, they have somewhere to go when it gets cold in New England, two, they have somewhere to go when it gets hot in Florida, and three, it’s cheaper and easier to insure and register a car in Florida than in Mass. Up here in Mass., there’s tons of cars running around right now with Florida plates. When the snow hits, back down South they go. So, if per chance this lady is one of those people that does that, she’d have to be putting 26,316 per year since purchase to hit a million miles by now. That doesn’t sound too far fetched to me.

Anonymous
Jul 15, 2008 at 5:04 pm

I refuse to believe it. There are 50ton hauling rigs that lose frames and hendrickson suspenion even with a lifetime of light loads…barely a million miles. I know what keeps the engine together/mounted in an old camaro (identical to firebird), mounted to a makeshift failing unibody. Add to that,1970 is very very tight carbed high compression timing to smash the very camaros weakness just by putting it in gear. this cars claim is as crazy as a volvo 1800…feel free to throw your stupid argument at my comment. It is futile. Maintenence in beautiful florida or not. theis claim is ridiculous. 110k if shes “lucky”.

Oafman
Jul 15, 2008 at 4:58 pm

I have heard of Semis, Mercedes and Suburbans with 1 million plus but never a Camaro. That has to be some sort of record.

cknarf
Jul 15, 2008 at 4:27 pm

Who needs 02 sensors anyways. I’ve also wonered: “Why all the useless shit?”

Highspeedhijinks
Jul 15, 2008 at 12:31 pm

Boy that is one Dressed down SS. This ones the Little old lady from Pensicola!
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I bet you that car looks like new because half of it is new. haha. Im sure the fuel pump alone has been changed about once a year with that kind of miles on it. Just proof that mechanical parts beat electrical parts anyday. At least you can predict when mechanical parts are gonna wear out.

Tony
Jul 15, 2008 at 12:00 pm

Wow. Looks brand new still. How great is that, what a fantastic story and a huge credit to her!

7urtle
Jul 15, 2008 at 10:07 am

wow go grandma on not crashin

NobiZero
Jul 15, 2008 at 4:36 am

Not true. I work at a Saturn Dealership, and we have several regular customers with over 300k on the odometer.

1988montecarloss
Jul 15, 2008 at 3:20 am

yah! chevy power