what's the longest time you have owned a vehicle?

The Missus (Judy) just sold her first car that she had bought - KE Ford Laser Ghia 1985. We only used it as a shopping trolley into town a couple a days a week in the last 8 months, as it was her daily drive until she fully retired at 71 yo age. We really miss the old girl. It was complete and a driver, but we decided to retire her and not re-register it. We could not find anyone who wanted it to restore her.
I Just sold my old HZ 1 tonner I purchased from new. Nothing original except the motor that was rebuilt.
3 transmissions, 2 diffs etc etc but over a millon k's. My early job required me to drive up to 70k a year, so easy to clock up the K's. Does that count as a long time

I had my Ford Maverick (tb42s) for 23 years. Initially it ate front wheel bearings, 2x replacement lhs, 1xrhs within 20K km then it was still on the replacements 310K km later so go figure that one! One by water pump, 1x fan and clutch. Still on original clutch and all hydraulics. A/c worked very well despite not having been topped up for 10+y (R12). One pair of rear wheel seals. About 3xsets of brake pads. Main component failure was the mechanical fuel pump, every 80K km like clockwork until it was converted to lpg. It was still a good reliable if thirsty vehicle when I sold it as 330K km. A few oil seeps from the gearbox/transfer case area, but the engine did not use a drop. The main reason for disposal was the dual fuel lpg conversion. Lpg was and is now even more scarce in the bush and 60L of ulp didn't get you very far. I still miss the old beast for its simplicity and reliability.

100 Series Landcruiser for more than 12 years and 300,000 + Kms. with no major issues or replacements. Shortest time was a Toyota Corona, less than 6 months, back seat wasn’t wide enough for the three child booster seats, lost money on that one.

Macca.

Have kept this RB30 petrol GQ for 21 years and 400,000k beause it simply has been the most reliable and capable vehicle I know of. Noisy and rattly admittedly but I have no fear of it letting me down and its "field servicability" would be another reason its a keeper these days. Original engine gearbox and drive train - no rust just good general maintenence, sensible modifications and quality lubricants. Goes like a steamtrain once you know how to get the best performance out of one of these and they are known reliably to do over 500,000ks without issues...

I have always chosen vehicles based on the reputation of the engine - except when I bought this one 21 years ago - it was cheap because it had "an unpopular engine"! Underpowered, high revving, thirsty? Turns out people just didnt understand it.

I still have no intention of letting it go.

But I did buy a V8 Y62 just in case ....

I owned a tiny little lime green Suzuki 500 once.
It certainly felt like a very long time.

Cheers
Jim

80 series cruiser. I bought it in 1999 with 60kms on it. Dad has had it since 2003 and it has 400xxx kms on it now. Mechanically still fine.

The missus has a 2000 model Ford Festiva - she's clocked up a whopping 60,000 k's in 21 years

You could just about put it back on the showroom floor !

Cheers
Gazz

Saw this on the beach at Coral Bay a few years back.
I doubt the odometer worked. but it was still registered.


We acquired our 1994 OKA in 2003 from a tour operator who had not maintained it particularly well. It had 330,000km on the clock and we have added another 250,000km, many of which have been in pretty tough country.
It has many more years in it yet.
Cheers,
Peter
OKA196 motorhome

For almost 12 years and 300,000 kms, I've had no major troubles or replacements on my 100 Series Landcruiser.

Bought a GQ Patrol tray top new in 1988 and sold it in 2005 with 650,000 almost trouble free k's on it - super reliable albeit slow - even towed a HJ75 across the Simpson with it one year - oh what a feeling lol

It's now a roo shooting vehicle in NSW with well over a million k's on and still going strong last I heard !

Cheers

Gazz

Had a 1984 Peugeot 505 STI which we bought in 1991 with 170.000 K on it. Sold it on in late 2018 with 765,330 K on it ....was utterly reliable and damn comfortable on a long trip with Australian Woolmark seat covers in it....even tho it was fully imported. The French know about quality it seems.

Cheers Keith

In 1995 I've got an old fashion peugeot 405 from my grandfather (second hand), which last with me for additional for 16 years, (Until it got a total loss accident).
It was too much of a gas https://gasstations-nearme.com/ consuming machine anyway.

2004 Troopy, FTE. Bought it new. So 17 years old. Was still in my 30's back then. I'm hoping it will see me out!
Serviced every 5k or 12 months by yours truly.
Now has a WHOPPING 103k LOL

Yep, 103,000 in 17 years. Never been used as a daily drive, just for trips.

Had 2 x 1HZ before, great vehicles but a bit slow! I have been happy with the FTE, just never realised how lucky! Over the last few years, mechanics during rego inspections and 70 series V8 owners have be saying, WOW, you've got one of those, best motor Toyota has ever made!

Never realised how lucky I was. Now if I can just prevent the "locals" from stealing it. Yeah, they broke in the other day, left EVERYTHING, I mean everything.
Didn't take the GoPro, Tablet, Laptop, Full bottles of spirits, nothing................MMM, what were they after I wonder..................., most likely the keys

We bought a peugeot 406 diesel in 2002. It started every time the key was turned. We replaced it with another Peugeot and gave the 406 to grandson number one 14 months ago he has passed it grandson number two. An utterly reliable and economical comfortable machine.

I'm glad the subject is OWNED, not driven.

I used to have a 1974 Ranger Rover that I bought 2nd hand in 1979. Finally had to pension it off about 3 years ago. So although I had it for about 39 years for a while before it departed it was unregistered as it failed Rego inspection. Who would have thought that a Landrover product would leak oil.

Leaking oil was normal but to fix the final issue got to be too much work and would have led me down the path of a total rebuild. Found someone who wanted a 2 door body to put on a refurbished chassis etc so they took it away.

A guesstimate would have been 300,000+Km driven as the speedo had too few digits back then and had gone around a couple of times and wasn't the original anyway. It still had the original uni joints, clutch, wheel bearings (oil bathed from Diff's which was regularly replenished), noisy gearbox and 7 cyl engine with added 1 cyl air pump.

The new owner got some extras to service and transplant to the new vehicle such as the Fairey overdrive unit and the 2 Roberts Diff locks which ultimately were taken over by ARB.

Sale deal was he got the car for free but had to take all my extensive spare parts acquired over the decades, but only if he paid me for the Recaro seats.

Despite the reputation RR's had/have it was a very reliable vehicle overall. Even when the starter motor failed it was easy to start with the crank handle, although that did get some strange looks when I did it, once deliberately for the fun of the looks.

One of the great things about it was that it had only 2 truly electronic items, the radio and the aftermarket electronic ignition. My current 4x4 spent 6 weeks with the Dealer tracing a "limp home mode fault" which is more time than the RR spent in it's registered life in a workshop, at least while I owned it.

The current vehicle is almost solely used for towing a caravan and I wouldn't put it over corrugations like the RR loved, such as the Old dirt Stuart Hwy from the NT Border to Pimba.

I do miss it, but it wasn't automatic and I bought this one as it also didn't have power steering. Also with the replacement seating there was no way the wife could have driven it, even though because I did have it I ended up getting her in a way.

I bought my X-1/9 new in 1981 - still have it, and it has less than 50K km on it.