Her ‘Chariot’ awaits 600,000 miles
| July 20, 2009 | 10:01 AM
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Talk about being driven to extremes.
A 90-year-old Florida woman is approaching a whopping 600,000 miles on a car she has owned since 1964.
But despite all of the pavement gliding by, Rachel Veitch, a retired nurse who lives in Orlando, hasn’t exhausted her old, reliable Mercury Comet Caliente yet. She drives it every day.
Veitch bought the car — which she calls her “Chariot” — brand new from a Florida dealership back in 1964 for $3,289. The odometer recently hit 559,000 miles.
Wanting to steer clear of buying a new vehicle any more often than she had to, Veitch has been meticulous about the car’s maintenance, as well as its repair records. (She can tell you, for example, that the Comet has had 17 batteries, eight mufflers and three sets of shocks.) Well, she was a nurse, after all — keeping charts is in her blood.
But Veitch credits something else for her car’s long life: not being a “destructive person.”
We all could clutch a lesson from that.
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