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Old 01-27-2011, 9:32pm   #1
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Default No Garage Queen Here: Irving Gordon and his 2,741,000 mile '66 Volvo P1800...
With more mileage than all the Apollo missions combined, in 44 years the former science teacher has gone through 110 tires, 440 spark plugs, 788 oil filters and 3,143 quarts of oil. The car had one mechanic from 1966 to 2003, and engine has been rebuilt twice, once at 680,000 miles and again in 2009.








You can watch a 5 minute profile of Irving and his car on NOVAscienceNOW. Go the episode on PBS.org and click the pictures in the center of the page. The story on Irving and the Volvo begins at the two-minute mark.
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Old 01-27-2011, 9:33pm   #2
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Too cheap to buy a new car, pathetic.
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Old 01-27-2011, 9:35pm   #3
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Looks like it has more personality than most cars on the road today.
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Old 01-27-2011, 9:37pm   #4
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That's one Volvo I'd like to have.
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You can watch a 5 minute profile of Irving and his car on NOVAscienceNOW. Go the episode on PBS.org and click the pictures in the center of the page. The story on Irving and the Volvo begins at the two-minute mark.
I got home last night just as this segment of the show was finishing up. Thanks for the link!
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I wonder how many semis have seen that many miles, if any? Mighty impressive.
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That is impressive.

Hey Nate, it's not even a diesel
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Old 01-27-2011, 9:57pm   #8
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I got home last night just as this segment of the show was finishing up. Thanks for the link!
Did you see the part where the guy dissolved all the cells off of a human heart and ended up with a white heart shaped ball of blood vessels? UCKFING WEIRD.
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Did you see the part where the guy dissolved all the cells off of a human heart and ended up with a white heart shaped ball of blood vessels? UCKFING WEIRD.
Pretty fascinating show - as was the regular Nova that now follows it.
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Old 01-27-2011, 10:06pm   #10
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Wow that's awesome....I'm just praying for 200k out of my fkn Tahoe.
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That is pretty cool
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related to NNiL8R?
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That's one Volvo I'd like to have.
No one ever wrote a song about a Volvo... including that one.
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No one ever wrote a song about a Volvo... including that one.
Incorrect. There are several songs about Volvos.
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Did you see the part where the guy dissolved all the cells off of a human heart and ended up with a white heart shaped ball of blood vessels? UCKFING WEIRD.
You can see stuff like that at the Bodies exhibit. They also have a cadaver where everything was removed except the blood vessels, which remained in the shape of the entire body.
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Too cheap to buy a new car, pathetic.
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Incorrect. There are several songs about Volvos.
None worth a shi%.
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Old 01-28-2011, 7:16am   #18
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It's pretty cool that Scoob's famous for this, though. That guy deserves some credit.
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A P1800 that had been convertiblized was almost the car I got instead of my '73. It needed a new top w/frame though and I didn't want to hunt one of those down. As far as reliability I guess I shoulda got the P1800. The Stingray barely goes 100 miles without something going haywire.
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