That's crazy. I'm terrible about keeping stuff like this, no where near organized enough to do so, lol.

 

 

Can you post the history detail? There are a lot of forum members that would love to see them.

 

 

My dad keeps records like that. The last cars he sold had every single possible piece of information included with them. They were a 1990 accord and a 2003 murano. They sold for $900 and $6000 respectively.

Something tells me that without that information, they would have sold for $900 and $6000.

Not knocking you for doing it, but for me it simply isn't worth it for an old chevy.

 

I never questioned the premise, blinded by lust to find what kind of wheel bearings are really the best. I bet the guy has a lot of good used part information.

I have had a couple of cars I should have kept and rebuilt until the bitter end, metal fatigue in the frame. And probably all here have seen a packard or something from the brass radiator days, built from nothing more than a vin plate. PLus I think his car well suited to his task, what would be a realistic upgrade, few mass market priced cars are both as fast and efficient on the road, with a high level of safety.

As I struggled through the pages toward this part, I was surprised that the question of preferred oil kept recurring. I would think the directions were followed. Only an educated guess, because I have been around a few high milage machines.

I will use the S.S. Marymack a ship I sailed working a coal run from philly to amsterdam. THe ship was, like many in the U.S. fleet, left over from WW2. THe engine rooms, (GE turbine electric) were so good, they just cut the ships forward of the engine room, added more cargo room in the middle , and then sailed the crap out of them. The third mate decided to check the logs and worked up about 35 million miles, so far.

Of course, the engine room had the benefit of trained engineers and crew to tend the machine. And they just followed the books. THus I assume the high milage car owner probably followed the book when he changed oil, just like the engineers pulling six figures to follow written instructions.

 

I was curious because there was another high mileage C5 (500K or so) here and he was glad to give out information. He used Castrol 10w30 in summer and 5W30 in winter.

This guy must be doing something right. He had an '84 with 200K, '85 with 300K and an '88 with 400K. He averaged around 1000 miles a week for the last 30 years in the heat of Florida. I would love to find out what oil he used.

What is really amazing is this guy put 900K miles on C4s in 16 years and C4s aren't all that comfortable compared to C5s.

 

Bringing this back from the dead. I found an article about this car on Jalopnik but while the article isn't anything special someone did post the carfax. I don't recall if someone posted the actual carfax in this thread so if they did then I apologize.


Here's What A Corvette Looks Like After 700,000 Miles

Carfax Report

 

IMO the oil brand has less to do with it (maybe type is important, is that what you meant?) but how it is driven and cared for has everything to do with it. I bet he is never the first one off the light