556,000 mile road trip

This might be abit old because I think I read it somewhere else awhile ago but to think this guy has spent 26 years driving his Merc all over the world is insane. 556,000 miles on the original motor, gearbox and axels.

http://www.odditycentral.com/travel/man-completes-epic-26-year-550000-mile-road-trip-around-the-world-in-one-unbreakable-car.html

my old Bedford midi van beat that lol
was a 2.2 na diesel and when I bought it years ago it had the grand sum of over half a million miles from new
I had the van for 4-5 years and never touched the engine other than top the oil up, never ever changed the oil or did anything else and timing belt was original also.
when I sold it it had then covered over 620,000 miles and was still going strong

funnily enough I bumped into the guy who I sold it too a couple years back in the local boozer and asked him what happened to the van and he said it had to be scrapped as the thing was rotten on underside, bottom of doors had gone and side door fell off along the road, but he did over 50k in it whilst he owned it and even when it was scrapped the engine and box were still going strong.
the really funny thing about it is what was passed on when sold from owner to owner which was '' don't touch the engine'' and everyone did the same and left it be.
probably the first one to give it an oil change and try look after it would have been the one to have blown it up

Geeze mate sounds like that van had done a good trip then. Haha I would have loved to see it driving down the road and whole door fell off

Yeah the side load door fell out when I owned it lol
You had to kick it shut as was rotten where the runners held it in place

He obviously never took time to roundhouse it in place