TA_Freak

Hit the big 400K this morning!!

Finkledbody

This must be one of the highest mileage fbodys in existence. I’m impressed, takes some dedication to travel that far in a sports car.

Any plans for the ol girl or are ya just ganna keep driving it?

Kjduvall

pontiac should trade you a new one for it like toyota did for the guy that hit a million........ oh wait......

TA_Freak

I've had a ton of stuff done to her over the years so there is nothing stock so I'm just going keep on driving her. She's been good to me.

TA_Freak

LOL .... yeah .. there's that!

RPM WS6

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Is anything mechanical still left from the factory, or has everything been modified or replaced at some point? Not to take away from the accomplishment, 400k is a big deal for any car, even just cosmetically, I'm just curious if there is anything still original left within any of the major systems. It would be cool to know which parts can actually make it 400k...LOL.

Either way, congrats on the milestone!

Treburkulosis

Congrats on the big milestone!

TA_Freak

Thanks!
Great question. The u-joints are still factory as well as the front bearings (hubs). That's the only thing that moved off of the Pontiac assembly line that's still there.
Everything else that's been replaced has been an upgrade.

NC01TA

So cool!!
Only 316,000 miles to go here to catch you.

TA_Freak

Ah man .... you're just breaking her in!

The good thing about those high miles is that there are LOTS of upgrades done - that make it better and faster!!

NC01TA

This thread made me double check my mileage on the Trans Am Then I looked at my other two rides. Maybe it had something to do with the the eclipse. Strange timing to see all 3 with 4400 miles at the end.
Trans Am 84,400
Mustang 14,400
Challenger 14,400

Che70velle

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😳😳😳

Che70velle

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Jamie, this is awesome my friend. How many miles on the rebuild now? I can’t get over how good the car looks with the new wheels!

RPM WS6

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Haha...that's crazy!

Speaking of the eclipse, we had 95% coverage here. Perfect clear sky for viewing. It reminded me of looking through the dark tinted glass of the t-tops on my '98 on an otherwise sunny day...except I was standing outside. Great experience!

Y2K_Frenzy

It was cloudy as all get out here, but it peaked out here and there. The worst part was trying to get home from work at 5:00. There were so many eclipse watchers coming back from I’m assuming the Waco area heading back towards Houston that traffic was at a stop on the hwy and the feeder in my lil podunk town. Waco is 85 or so miles north and Houston is about 85 miles south of here. It was ridiculous. I once had a Mitsubishi Eclipse but that’s another story.

RPM WS6

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I'm not an import guy, but on that particular day I would have been OK with cruising around in one of those.

My theme music for the day was Pink Floyd, "Eclipse".

RevGTO

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Eclipses aside, thanks for giving me perspective on my "low mileage" 2000 Formula. 210k miles and apparently just getting broken in!

70T/A400

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Is the body and chassis original to the car?

I never understood why folks don't drive their cars. The mistake is you are saving it for future use which will never happen, hoping it will appreciate in value, and then driving it makes you feel guilty cause you are hurting it.

The most fun activity you can do with a car is to drive it. Not going in a field with pensioners with bad backs. Not looking at it in a dark garage. Not bragging about its low mileage in a chat room.

Drive it. Congratulations.

NC01TA

^^^ I'm with you about driving cars but you have to accept a different mindset about collecting cars as well. I can appreciate the collectors that actually are preserving history for us. Keeping the original cars as they came from the factory is a priceless undertaking. I can't do it personally even though I have tried. I freaked out when my T/A hit 10,000 miles and now I'm so happy those days are behind me as i've accumulated 8 times that mileage since. As they say, "miles of smiles".
When I moved next door to a collector I realized his passion was keeping the cars factory fresh. He treated his cars like a coin collection. LOOK but don't touch. His 1968 Mustang coupe with a 289 was an amazing example. He actually would let me sit in it and it was a time capsule that takes you back to a Ford showroom in 1968. No restoration and all original. When he passed a few years back he had about a dozen similar examples which went to family members. I actually hope they get sold to similar like minded collectors. If I was able to get my hands on one, I would fail in keeping it factory fresh as I'd have several thousand miles on it already. By the way I'm one of those old car show guys with all types of health issues but I still drive my cars all over the country. There are all types in all segments.

RPM WS6

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The reason why you don't understand is because you don't find pleasure in this particular aspect of the hobby. And that's OK, because fun is a very subjective thing.

I bought my '98 Z28 when it was nearly new. I started "saving" it way back then; never driving it in bad weather or racking up commuting miles, only using it for car shows/cruise nights and treating it to meticulous care. I've rarely driven it more than ~800 miles in a given year. And now the future is here, 20+ years have passed and I still use the car exactly the same way, still get just as much joy out of it, and I'm so glad I never used it as a daily driver. Instead, I still get to experience the feeling of a "brand new" 4th gen every time I take it out for a weekend of events, just as I have for two decades and just as I intend to over the next two decades.

I realize that some (maybe many) folks in this boat are highly concerned about value/investment/appreciation of their "collection", but understand that this is not a priority (or even a concern) for some of us. I am a financially comfortable person, and I don't ever buy any car as an investment nor do I concern myself with its value unless I'm at the moment of buying or selling. I buy cars as toys or transportation, never as a place to park money nor with the hopes of it being a retirement fund or a winning lotto ticket. I might not represent the norm, but I'm quite certain that I'm not totally alone either.

Some folks might argue that the most fun activity you can do with a car is race it, but the further you take a vehicle in that direction the less "driveable" it will become. Yet countless folks own race cars that can't even be driven under their own power to a race track. They are trailered, and they build mileage 1/4 mile at a time. I'm sure these folks are having plenty of fun with their cars, but they actually end up driving them even less than someone like me who owns cars that are used only for cruise nights and events.

Again, fun is a very subjective thing. Just to be clear, I've owned several LS1 F-bodies and pursued different purposes with each one, so I'm not ignorant to the experience of using these cars in different ways. I had one for street/strip, I had one as a daily driver, and then I had one as a "show car" - and that last one is the only one I've kept all this time, it was the pursuit which ended up being most enduring.