Think about it; 800,000 miles. What’s the most miles you’ve ever accumulated on one vehicle? And where did you go? To college? To work thousands of time? On the cross-country trip of a lifetime?
We happened to have the rare opportunity to be with Carol Marini when she rolled the odometer in her 1968 Mustang over for the eight time. That’s 800,000 miles that she has covered in the car that she affectionately nicknamed the Blue Beast. In the video, she shares how her Mustang landed her free concert tickets, has helped her get through difficult times and has been her means of escape and freedom. In fact, it’s the only car she’s owned over the past 42 years!
Last week, we shared Gary Mueller’s story of more than 1 million miles on his 2002 Ford F-350 Super Duty® (click here to read it if you missed it).
So what’s your Ford story? We want to hear it and give you a place to share it. It’s easy to do in our Your Stories section.
Here are just three of the hundreds of stories that others have already shared:
322,000 Miles And Still Going Strong
I brought my first NEW car, a lovely green Ford Taurus SEL in July of 2000. 0 miles on it when I bought it and now, 10 years and over 320,000 miles later she is still going strong, original engine, original muffler, (and probably a few other original parts). She’s taken me from New York to Connecticut and back about 2,500 times (along with a few trips to NJ, PA, MA, RI.) Read more…
F-250 With 1/4 Of A Million Miles
I work at a Ford dealer, just recently a customer traded in this 2008 Ford F-250 Super Duty and the truck has 226,826 miles on it. The truck looks as good as used truck with low miles, and it runs and rides really good. Now this is Ford Build Tough. Read more…
My father bought our Bronco when I was only one year old. We went everywhere in the Bronco for all our family trips. We went from our home in St. Louis, Missouri on numerous trips to Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Washington D.C. and Northern Illinois. By the time I purchased the Bronco from my parents in 2001 it had over 500,000 miles on it. Read more…
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