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Old 01-27-2014, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Tom Joad View Post
I can remember back in the day, if you got 85K out of a car that was damned good. Usually you needed a complete engine and transmission rebuild before that.
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Yeah 100k was a LOT. Now even my decrepit terrible American cars routinely do over 200k

My dad rebuilt engines when he was in HS for extra money, they needed it every 20-30k miles back then according to him.

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