I have a '79 corvette with <90k miles. I love it, but I don’t drive it. I would like to sell it, ideally to someone else who will both love and drive it. I don’t want to use Facebook and I live in a rural area. Is there another good option?
I have a '79 corvette with <90k miles. I love it, but I don’t drive it. I would like to sell it, ideally to someone else who will both love and drive it. I don’t want to use Facebook and I live in a rural area. Is there another good option?
90 000 miles is not low.
For a nearly 50-year-old car, I think it kind of is … But maybe I’m just hopeful.
When I opened the post and saw the year/mileage I was surprised. 90k for a '79 would definitely be considered low mileage. I know corvettes are a stereotypical “garage kept, barely driven” car, so I’m sure most are under the average usage, but even if the car was driven 1/3 as much as the average car it would have over twice the miles (assuming it still ran.
Not for older cars. Most cars from the 70s would be retired or require a major overhaul by 100k miles.
New cars just last soo much longer than they used to. That’s a major reason when I was younger Japanese cars started to eat American car manufacturers’ market share. Seeing a Nissan maxima last 150k miles without needing any work just spoke for itself when you were used to buying a new car every 3-4 years.
Edited my comment. I didn’t mean to say, “the average car from '79 would have x miles on it” (if a car that old managed to survive this long while being daily driven it would have well over 500k), so much as I was highlighting how impressive it was the car was still at such low mileage despite (presumably) still running and being driven occasionally.
I suppose “low mileage” is subjective. It’s got less than 1/5 the miles it “should” based on age, but it also probably has less than 1/5 of it’s remaining mileage left before something goes bang (unless work has already been done on it).
Yeah, it’s a bit of a survivor ship bias, most of the cars from the 70s that are still surviving have even lower mileage on them. A lot of classic cars that are still around were ones that people put in barns after driving them 20k-30k miles. Most of the ones that were actually driven around and used died a long time ago.
A lot of those low milage classics are basically just show cars, where the owners cart them around in trailers so they can keep the milage low.
How is it not for a 57 year old car? Not even 2k a year…
That’s what I put on my 206 (that had already quite a bit more on it) on 7 years, including 2020 (Covid) when I barely drove it. I bought a used 2015 car last year with 75k miles, and I consider that ‘almost brand new’. Both with 1.6L 4 cylinder engines, quite smaller than the beast op is talking about that must have a 5-6 litres v8 at least…
It’s all relative, most cars from +50 years ago were lucky to make it a 100k miles before needing a major overhaul or just giving out completely. Even in the 80s the average person would be buying a new car every 3-4 years.