Well.. since I Co-drive Gerry's Civic I can answer that.
The car has over 250,000 miles on it. Engine only 120,000 miles
or so on it though.
Gerry won Nats and I took 6th driving his car =)
Joe Delio
#94 HS at nationals..
#13 ES - '96 Integra LS normal.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Hedderick" <davebs14@yahoo.com>
To: "Arthur Emerson" <vreihen@hotmail.com>; <rael@intelos.net>;
<autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: How used is too used for AutoX?
> 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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