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Six digits, or my baby is now a man

Today on the way to the cottage my car hit its first major milestone: 100,000 kilometers (about 62k miles). It broke my heart to see the odo go from this (sorry for the py cell phone photos):



to this:



My baby is growin' up :(
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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Reply #1 –
Shoot, mine "grew up" a long time before I bought it then...bought it with ~125K on it, it's now about to turn over 149K. And that's miles ;)

Garrett H.
'94 F250 XLT- 4x4, 5 speed, 7.3 IDI Turbo Diesel, 4" intake, 4" exhaust, 5" turnout stacks, manual hubs, etc.
'87 Thunderbird Turbo Coupe
Engine, wheels, tires, etc!
Exhaust sound clip
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Reply #2 –
Man I really feal for you, having to drive around in a car that has 100000 Km on the OD. Next thing you'll be saying that it has rust on it :flip: ....J/K.

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Reply #3 –
Oh man, and wait to when they are going to the parties and burn some  rubber....

Just Kidding, still this is a low mileage car, ill be waiting at 2020 to his 200,000 kilometers and doing the fly-bird conversion....

 Or at 2030 and doing the Hover Conversion Like Eric....

1985 Mercury Cougar V6
1989 F-200 V8
1996 Explorer V6
2001 F-150

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Reply #4 –
Grown up!?  It's a teenager! :rollin:  The motor, tranny, and rear on my car are all under 45K miles, but that's only because she's got 203,000 on the ticker.  I believe thats what? 325000 KMs?  My car is on Geritol, it's third heart(motor), 2nd set of lungs (tranny), and has had a full on hip replacement (rear end).  You're girl's gettin ready for her prom while mine is a member of AARP :hick:
-- 05 Mustang GT-Whipplecharged !!
--87 5.0 Trick Flow Heads & Intake - Custom Cam - Many other goodies...3100Lbs...Low12's!

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Reply #5 –
Thats bad? Will pass 200,000 MILES in probably less than 4 months, all on stock parts. Have already begun saving for the transplants when the time comes.
1988 Thunderbird Sport

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Reply #6 –
Awwww its still just a baby... I haven't owned a vehicle with only 62K mi since I bought the(long gone) '86 Grand Marquis from my mom back in '93. If I remember correctly it only had 45K mi when we got it. The '93 already had 65K mi when she bought the '03. Yea thats right I buy my moms old cars...

I doubt anyone can out do my freind Wayne's '88 Sport. I saw the car last Thursday and it has 334K mi(thats 538 kilos).... All on the original drive train!!!(yea its tired)

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Reply #7 –
I wish mine had less than 100,000 mi on her. I watched as she turned over 200,000 3 mothes after I bought it. And this is why it has half an interior with a 88 TC blueand grey interior and a new motor on the way

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Reply #8 –
my car has 146,000 miles on the OD, 60,000 on the engine
'83 Cougar *the never ending project* warmed over 306 v8,c4,8.8 posi with 5 lug conversion
'91 mustang strictly street-in progress
'00 f150 7700-Mean Green: jet stage 1 chip,ported upper intake with 1" spacer,'04 Super Duty intake with injectors,summit racing short tube headers with true 2.5" duals with smithy's glasspacks!

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Reply #9 –
230,000 miles
One 88

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Reply #10 –
87000km's,still under 100k.
 

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Reply #11 –
Somewhere over 230k km. And it still won't blow the HG! :bs:

It's getting done this winter anyway. I'm tired of waiting over two years to use that motor sitting on the bench.

Anyway, welcome to the world of grown up cars, little white (which is a colour I didn't think still existed in Nova Scotia) T-bird. :)

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Reply #12 –
heck, my brand new '05 cobalt has 22,000 MILES on it already, and it is barely 8 months old...

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Reply #13 –
hehe 86 with 290,000 on the origonal engine. Tranny is about 150k on her.
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I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
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Reply #14 –
228,000 miles on the car with the original rear and I believe it's the original tranny (possibly has been rebuilt once already but she's starting to slip now).
140,000 total miles on the motor but around 20,000 since it was freshend up a couple years ago.