According
to a report we have seen on CBS News, a traveling salesman from Milwaukee has
clocked up 1,001,385 miles in his 1989 Saab 900 SPG.
The
car has now been donated to the Wisconsin Automotive Museum.
Saab
have apparently verified the mileage.
The
car's transmission was rebuilt after 200,000 miles, and he had no less than 8
collisions with deer, so the car had to be repaired for that, but, apart from
that, little was replaced.
The
owner of the vehicle says that he had taken good care of the car, meticulously
following the maintenance instructions.
However,
the salesman decided to stop driving the car, which had started to rust, fearing
another collision with a deer could prove fatal for him as well as the wildlife...
8th
December 2006
