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The last car I recycled was a 1994 Honda Civic VX, Bought it with 27,492 original miles (ORIGINAL TIRES) in March of 2008. It was hit in the rear and totaled in 1995. The Insurance company used it to train adjusters for 13 years before I bought it.
Sold it to a long time friend. I has less than 50 k miles on it now.
The first salvage car I rebuilt was A 66 Chevy G10 Van. Bought it in 1973 with 42K miles.
In the years between I have rebuilt probably close to 200 cars. A few had less than 1000miles on the odometer when I bought them.
In my old Z car shop we saved everything off of the cars our customers did not want to keep on the road and reused those parts to keep others on the road.
When I retired from working on cars, I bought a 49 Plymouth businessman's coupe and put the body on an 83 Nissan truck frame, with a 73 240Z engine and transmission.
I built something like 12 Nissan Altimas from 1993 to 1997 models. One parts car was used to build 3 other cars. At one time almost every member of my wife's family was driving one on those Altimas.
Built a 95 200SX that my brother bought. It had 3000 miles on the odo when I bought it. His son drove it until it had 130k miles, then my brother bought it from him and later sold it to a co worker. Probably has about 150 k on it now. Rebuilt in 1996 and still on the road.
My dad drove a 77 Honda Accord I built for 60k miles and averaged 39 MPG, until he traded it in on a Toyota Celica.
Bought a BMW 2002 once for $300, hit in the rear end. It had $1200 in receipts for work done on it within 3 months of being hit.
regards
Mech
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