October 31st 11, 02:07 AM
posted to rec.autos.makers.honda
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"not sure what he'll do with the old one"
Tegger wrote:
> jim > wrote in :
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>> http://news.yahoo.com/maine-mans-car...121712831.html
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>> keep it and sell the new one.
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> When Toyota received notice that one of their vehicles was nearing the
> million-mile mark (a "service vehicle" operated by a California business),
> the woman in charge warned the owners NOT to allow the odometer to go all-
> zeros. She said the owners should call her when it hit 999,999, and Toyota
> would pick up the vehicle with a flatbed, wherever it was. And this they
> did, with 999,999 showing on the odometer.
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> The business was given a new vehicle to replace the old, and the old is
> supposedly now in the Toyota museum in Long Beach. That's what I read.
> Anybody near Long Beach who wants to check that out?
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> And all I've got is 374,000 on the 'Teg. No free Honda for me. :^(
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It certainly would be an assembleage of rust by that time...
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JT
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