A Keeper is Cheaper

by: William Jeanes | from: AARP The Magazine

"I miss my car and just want to see it back sitting in my driveway," says Irv Gordon, 68, a retired schoolteacher who lives in East Patchogue, New York. The average car on the road in this country is nine years old and logs 15,000 miles a year. Gordon has driven the sporty red Volvo P1800S he bought back in 1966 a lot more than that—an astounding 2.7 million miles. Just now the car is in the shop. Gordon says he has learned to get the carburetors rebuilt every 900,000 miles, whether they need it or not.

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