Who's owned a single car the longest?

[geniph]

this was kind of spurred by the "what was your first car" thread. My first car was a Chevy LUV pickup. I bought it new in 1980 and only sold it last year, so I had that little trucklet for 22 years. It's hard to get people to believe that a 22-year-old vehicle is a single-owner vehicle!

Who's owned their cars for more than 20 years? 30? Anybody go for 40?

[TNDemo]

1. 22 years for me too and $400 in repairs the whole time.

1969 Nova, two speed torque drive. I really didn't want to sell it but I was about to lose a kid through the back floorboard and it was just too expensive to rehab.

[BurtWorm]

2. I bet you're going to win that one.

Unless one of the Clampetts is a member of DU. (Pretty sure they're freepers, though.)

[geniph]

6. No way is Elly Mae a freeper!

She loved her some critters, and freepers only love themselves and Busch!

[BurtWorm]

9. Don't you mean "love theyselves?"

[geniph]

13. That's funny, that's what I typed the first time!

then I thought people would pedantically correct my grammar as if I'd used the term 'moran' or something. Nothing fails like a joke that someone tries to correct...

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. I still have the 1970 GMC Suburban

that we bought for a trip to South America for research on spiders! It's the first car that my family bought brand new. OK, so when your dad's a professor of Zoology, the focus isn't exactly on cool cars. Though NOW I think it's a cool car (truck).

I also have my mom's 82 Volvo station wagon. It's amazing how crappy that car is in the snow!

[geniph]

5. That Suburban may win...

although it doesn't quite count because your folks don't own it anymore...but it sort of counts. 33 years and still goin', huh?

A Volvo is bad in the snow? Wow, what were the Swedes thinking?!

[Red State Rebel]

15. That gives me hope, my Suburban is an 1989!

[Nomad559]

4. 69 Mustang

I was 21 when I bought my 69 Mustang Fastback, I'm now 44.
23 years, and I still have the Mustang.

[toddzilla]

7. i probably hold the record for most cars owned in shortest time..

79 triumph spitfire
74 mercury capri
78 toyota celica
77 mercury capri
69 chevy el camino
70 chevy nova
72 olds cutlass
69 chevy nova
78 toyota corona
70 chevy nova
72 pontiac ventura
82 mazda rx-7
74 oldsmobile omega
85 chevy camaro z-28
89 honda crx-si
84 honda accord
87 toyota celica
88 ford taurus wagon
89 honda accord
93 ford crown victoria




i've had a few other parts cars and stuff, i'm probably forgetting a couple in there somewhere..

funny thing is i've only crashed two cars in my life, and neither were my fault!

[alwynsw]

8. Still have (and sometimes drive)

My '65 Mustang convertible. 289, four on the floor, red with original black interior.

on edit: bought NEW

[geniph]

12. I think you win

and here I was all impressed with myself for keeping my truck for 22 years!

I have every intention of trying to keep my Subaru just as long. I was going to do that with my Saturn, too, but it got totaled when some dipshit rear-ended me at a red light.

[happyslug]

10. I hope we stay with cars people USE not just collect

A 1969 Mustang? Would anyone drive that in bad weather TODAY? 1970 Suburban I can see, but a 1969 Mustang?

Now my father purchased a 1977 Suburban, which rusted out in about 4 years (Through we kept it for almost ten, patching the body up bondo). In 1982 I purchased a 1982 Chevrolet Truck, when I sold it in 1992 it had NO RUST. The domestic auto industry improved there cars ability to resist rust greatly starting in the mid 1970s and had solved most of the problem of body rusting by 1980 (this was more a product of competing with the Japanese than any new techical breakthroughs).

My point here is simple, since about 1980 car's body are designed to last longer, so we will have a lot of late 1970 and 1980 cars in this list do to these changes in making cares during that time period. I expect people who use their car everyday will be in this period of old cars NOT the late 1960s and 1970s.

[geniph]

11. My '80 LUV sure rusted!

I'd had a pair of cable chains break some years back, and they beat the hell out of the paint on one side of the bed. Now, this was never a fancy truck, so I left it pretty much undealt with, and that was sure rusting out by the time I sold it.

We don't have much problem with older cars rusting out here in the Pacific NW, though, because they don't salt the roads. If it snows, they use sand. We don't get ANYTHING like the rust cars get where it's cold...so you see a lot more of the cheaper 60's and 70's cars on the road here.

[Nlighten1]

14. I've had my car since 1992

Not ancient but it is the longest I have had a car.