DSSA
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I spent a couple of hours trying to find any source of mileage history on my 1976 5.9 Newport.
Odometer shows 14,688. It's amazingly clean for something that was stored poorly over the years, if true mileage is 114,688. Yet, despite being owned by two Octogenarians since new, I'm hard pressed to believe that it only has 14,688 and would of course need to find some sort of documentation to support it if sold claiming those miles.
Unfortunately, while I worked on the car from time to time for several years for my grandfather, I never thought to ask him.
He purchased it from a local, elderly lady that he knew, who stopped driving and had left it sit in what was basically a shed. He purchased it when he was in his early 80's around 2002, stored it in another non-climate controlled, ship lap garage for 15 years, and drove it maybe 300 miles before he passed.
The car is original, and very clean with exception of surface rust on the underside of the hood (mice/squirrels built nests under there during long storage).
I've done a fair amount of maintenance on it at this point (he passed 4 years ago, at which time he left it to me), replacing the struts, brakes (new rotors/pads/1 caliper that seized while sitting), fuel gauge sending unit, carburetor (clogged from sitting with old fuel), alternator, plugs, wires, coil, cap/rotor, all filters, etc.
I'm planning on going through some more things on it, cleaning it up, and selling it due to wanting to pick up another of his cars (1966 Bonneville Convertible w/389) that his son in law received and has left sit ever since in poor storage without touching. So, I'm trying to figure out if it's original mileage as it will somewhat dictate asking price and how much work/money I'm willing to spend on it to get it ready to sell.
Odometer shows 14,688. It's amazingly clean for something that was stored poorly over the years, if true mileage is 114,688. Yet, despite being owned by two Octogenarians since new, I'm hard pressed to believe that it only has 14,688 and would of course need to find some sort of documentation to support it if sold claiming those miles.
Unfortunately, while I worked on the car from time to time for several years for my grandfather, I never thought to ask him.
He purchased it from a local, elderly lady that he knew, who stopped driving and had left it sit in what was basically a shed. He purchased it when he was in his early 80's around 2002, stored it in another non-climate controlled, ship lap garage for 15 years, and drove it maybe 300 miles before he passed.
The car is original, and very clean with exception of surface rust on the underside of the hood (mice/squirrels built nests under there during long storage).
I've done a fair amount of maintenance on it at this point (he passed 4 years ago, at which time he left it to me), replacing the struts, brakes (new rotors/pads/1 caliper that seized while sitting), fuel gauge sending unit, carburetor (clogged from sitting with old fuel), alternator, plugs, wires, coil, cap/rotor, all filters, etc.
I'm planning on going through some more things on it, cleaning it up, and selling it due to wanting to pick up another of his cars (1966 Bonneville Convertible w/389) that his son in law received and has left sit ever since in poor storage without touching. So, I'm trying to figure out if it's original mileage as it will somewhat dictate asking price and how much work/money I'm willing to spend on it to get it ready to sell.
