HS National champ Gerry Terranova's car has a few
miles on it (if I remember correctly). Not sure about the
exact # but I thought it was close to 200,000.
David Hedderick
----- Original Message -----
From: Arthur Emerson <vreihen@hotmail.com>
To: <rael@intelos.net>; <autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: How used is too used for AutoX?
> Jon Byrne <rael@intelos.net>
> >
> >So, I'm wondering, assuming that it's been relatively
> >well taken care of, is there a point at which a car is
> >just too "used" to be a decent autoX investment?
>
> At the local event here last Sunday, a guy showed up
> with a 1987 HS Volkswagen Rabbit convertible on a
> trailer. I heard that it had over 700,000 miles on it.
> It won HS by almost 1.5 seconds. Of course, that's
> expected of German-engineered cars. :-)
>
> Back when I was running the One Lap, there was a Honda
> entered that had run like 7 previous years, and had
> some seriously high miles on it. If I remember correctly,
> it threw a timing belt along the 5,600 mile trip that
> year. The One Lap will break anything, so I wouldn't
> assume that it was a flaw in Honda's reliability record.
>
> I don't know much about Hondas, but I wouldn't let
> the odometer scare you. Just plan to replace all of the
> chassis bushings to tighten everything back up again
> when you're budgeting your purchase.....
>
> -Arthur ("Master of blowing up MR-2 motors despite never
> owning one" :-( edition.)
>
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