Hi everyone! I was an occasional poster on Saturn Fans (is it gone for good?) My dark blue, stick shift '95 SL1 has a little less than 330,000 miles on it. It purrs like a kitten; it guzzles oil but it might be the rust that eventually kills it. I'm going to drive it as long as I can!

 

Welcome!

 

Welcome. With the large influx of new members as of late, we might have to start a mileage thread. If you folks are all going to be regulars. Or semi regulars.

330k and manual is the highest I've heard in a while. The SOHC s usually live longer because it takes longer for them to start burning oil.

Are you in the rust belt or did the vehicle live in the rust belt during its lifetime?

 

Thanks, guys. I'm in the Midwest, so yes, in the rust belt, but not the rustiest part of it. The sub-frame has some rust but is still holding together. The rear door sills have rusted to where that part that is square in cross section is open on one side. But it's still holding its shape.
There was another guy on Saturn Fans who had (I think) an SL-1 with over 750,000 miles! More than twice mine.

 

Original engine for them? How many rebuilds/crate engines? Not saying it's not possible Just unlikely.

 

For Mr. 750K? I don't know offhand. I'm sure he wrote it at some point, but I wasn't really a high volume poster and may have missed it. Maybe he will turn up here.
My engine is original - at least, I haven't changed it since I got the car at 120K miles. I'm on my second clutch, though.

 

I reached a mileage milestone recently - 333,333 miles!
I have a picture, but the uploader doesn't seem to be working. It just flashes percentages for a split second and then goes blank, and nothing works except refreshing the page.

Must have an iPhone huh.

Hi, for one, believe you, and when you double that mileage, we should all get together and worship the vehicle

 

Himiles - (name was close to that) from Saturnfans had a post towards the end were it was all 7' s --- 777,777 miles...

If memory serves - he had at least one total drivetrain rebuild...

 

Tried a workaround uploading elsewhere and uploading here from url, but I got the error message "upload error: invalid url".
Anyway, here's the picture: https://imgur.com/a/3sgqW4P

 

You even planned the trip odometer. You are very sick.
Know you are loved.