Spending a fair chunk of my life as a valuer of motor vehicles, I sometimes need to tell doting owners that their faithful automotive companion has travelled farther than is desirable and the price they are contemplating is viable only in Fantasy Land.
When selling a car, that little row of numbers below the speedo or digitally displayed do carry some weight, however they shouldn’t be the only factor to consider when buying.
People do get nervous when spotting big numbers on an odometer, especially if there is no service history to confirm when and what maintenance may have occurred and what costly jobs are overdue.
Perceptions count for a lot and older cars with five-digit odometers don’t suffer to the same degree. That 94,000 miles showing on the dash of a 1960s' model could be genuine, or the car might be one oil change away from half a million.
This story is from the Issue 482 edition of Unique Cars.
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