84 Years Old and Still Driving His First Car

[cpruitt]

Pretty interesting story I came across and wanted to share.

To keep a car running for many years, change the oil every 3,000 miles, says Clarence Cleveland Curtiss. Mr. Curtiss, 84, has followed the advice with the first car he ever owned, a 1929 Ford Model A; it has 200,000 miles on it and still runs. Mr. Curtiss said he was 15 in 1938 when he bought the car, which sold for $400 when new, from a Derby man for $10. It was during the Depression. Mr. Curtiss has made one major upgrade, installing a Hudson Terraplane engine in 1940, because, he said, “I raced kids home from high school with it, but there were a couple of cars I couldn’t beat.” That allowed it to go more than 80 miles an hour, compared with 55 m.p.h for a standard Model A. “Then I could beat them all,” he said. Full Story

[fomoco71]

Thats pretty cool.

[thunderbirdlver]

wow! very interesting!

[SCJ42970]

As a lucky guy that took a 70 scj429 Torino GT to Fords 100th in 03 I would only wish that Clarence would have been there too, very cool, Dave.