whoah. 23 years ago today my mom was still in the hospital after my
birth :-x I cant imagine keeping a car that long!
--- KGROWLER@aol.com wrote:
> This evening marks 23 years since I purchased my 1979 1500 Midget,
> Growler.
> An appropriate anniversary to fall within British Car Week. Went for
> a nice
> topdown cruise to our favorite local pub to mark the occasion. Shame
> they were
> out of Smithwicks, but Black and Tans served very nicely. It was a
> two-year-old
> used car with 25,194 miles on the clock when I bought it from Howard
> Orloff
> Motors in Chicago, one of the two MG dealers in the city when MGs
> stopped coming
> over here. Tonight that same odo shows 107,871 miles. So tonight I
> calculated
> that 23 years breaks down to 201,480 hours (inclusive of leap days).
> So
> dividing that into the 82,677 miles I have put on the car in my
> ownership, I come
> up with this car having averaged 0.41005535055 m.p.h. over the years
> I've had
> it.
>
> ;-)
>
> Kim Tonry
> Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
>
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