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Man's '91 pickup passes the 1M-mile mark

Mon Feb 11, 11:08 PM ET
GRESHAM, Wis. - Frank Oresnik's trusty pickup truck — he calls it "the old girl" — passed the 1 million-mile mark with a camera crew filming the event and a public-radio audience listening in. "I can't tell you how much fun it was," he said. "It was really humbling, all this interest."

Recent news stories told how Oresnik had just 1,200 miles to go before reaching the milestone in the 1991 Chevrolet Silverado that he bought with 41,000 miles on it in 1996 and used in his business, distributing seafood and steaks in the upper Midwest.

At the time, he was getting his latest oil change — the kind of regular maintenance he credits with helping to keep the truck going so long.

He said he's had the truck's oil changed more than 300 times. It's had so many changes that the oil pan drain plug had to be rethreaded several times, he said, and "you never hear of that."

He passed the million-mile mark Friday in southeastern Wisconsin while on his way back home to Catawba, located in the north in Price County, about an hour west of Rhinelander. He was on County Highway V southeast of Fond du Lac.

On hand was a film crew from Chevrolet's public relations and advertising company, and he was speaking live to Robert Siegel, host of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."

A news crew from CBS had been with him earlier in the day.

"I wont say it was relief ... it was exhilarating," Oresnik said later during a stop in Gresham where he has one of his longtime customers. "This truck has been so dependable over the years." Now that it's made history, the truck could be headed back to the automaker or Shell Oil. Oresnik said there's been some interested in GM or Shell Oil buying it.

The most dependable, longest lasting trucks on the road. ^^^^^^ There is proof.


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GM should supply him with a new truck. Just because he is getting them publicity that Chevy has the longest lasting truck on the road.

I bet they will. I read it on yahoo and they stated that GM or shell petrol wanted to purchase it off him. I remember VW giving a guy who hit 1mill a new jetta on the david letterman show a long while back. He kept driving around the block until he hit 1mill in his cabroiet

gives me goose bumps... they aren't conciterd the logest lasting trucks on the road for nothing. but yeah I beileve that chevy will supply him with a brand new truck.


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those trucks were built like a rock , i put a motor in a stripped truck a friend bought , motor had around 100k on it when he bought it , probably has close to 500k now , couple valve cover gaskets and oil cooler lines , along with regular maintenance


and he isnt easy on vehicles

Haha, that's crazy. I know that guy. He would get the oil changed many time in my hometown at one of the local oil/lube places. I remember it was a few years ago that our local paper did a story on him when it was around 800,000 miles. It's crazy how good the truck looks too. If I remember correctly, GM did want to buy it off of them so they could disassemble it study the wear on the engine parts. I also heard that they were going to offer him a new truck as well. I haven't seen the guy in a while, but I'll have to see if I can find out.



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Niiiice, GM better purchase this truck from him











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used in his business, distributing seafood and steaks in the upper Midwest

He's not one of those annoying bastards hawking frozen foods door-to-door, is he?




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it still has a great blue book on it too

GM trucks rule!
Now could we see a GM car ever do this?




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ya luke i was thinking about the guy you were telling us about a while back.


damn impressive though!

Yep, that's him! How the hell are ya Jake? Haven't talked to you in AGES! We'll have to get together sometime soon.



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Mr.Goodwrench-G.T. wrote:GM trucks rule!
Now could we see a GM car ever do this?

Nope.. Not even half that..

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Watching you parade around my bedroom in a thong was a little like watching sea lions mate.

GM used to have a Million Mile club: my grand-dad passed on an early 70's Buick Roadmaster Stationwagon. That thing did not want to die... the front end rusted out and it wasn't possible to replace what needed to be (don't ask, I barely remember it).

The car was almost at 1.5 million miles.

ihavenolife000 wrote:GM should supply him with a new truck.

Why? GM never supplied that guy with the million mile saab with a new saab, atleast not that I know of. Why should he get a new truck?

dan

dubduce18s wrote:

ihavenolife000 wrote:GM should supply him with a new truck.

Why? GM never supplied that guy with the million mile saab with a new saab, atleast not that I know of. Why should he get a new truck?

dan

they stand to make a lot more business off of the publicity from the truck than they would a saab. stuff like this could be used in an ad campaign. saab owners probably dont care about getting a million miles out of their cars....

cool to hear. i hope he gets a new truck too.




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Haha i dont know why but this reminds me of the episode of married with children.When al's almighty dodge was gonna hit the million mile mark.I think he was gonna have a camera crew too.He went to sleep in the car so nothing would happen to it and hit the shifter by accident and it rolled over to zero,lol.Ah,i loved that show,lol.


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ptrblkz24 wrote:Haha i dont know why but this reminds me of the episode of married with children.When al's almighty dodge was gonna hit the million mile mark.I think he was gonna have a camera crew too.He went to sleep in the car so nothing would happen to it and hit the shifter by accident and it rolled over to zero,lol.Ah,i loved that show,lol.

that was a @!#$ funny episode, damn i miss Married with Children.

Spike J wrote:

ptrblkz24 wrote:Haha i dont know why but this reminds me of the episode of married with children.When al's almighty dodge was gonna hit the million mile mark.I think he was gonna have a camera crew too.He went to sleep in the car so nothing would happen to it and hit the shifter by accident and it rolled over to zero,lol.Ah,i loved that show,lol.

that was a @!#$ funny episode, damn i miss Married with Children.

That show is still on, I just forget what channel, they are not making any new episodes *tear*

-dan

ptrblkz24 wrote:Haha i dont know why but this reminds me of the episode of married with children.When al's almighty dodge was gonna hit the million mile mark.I think he was gonna have a camera crew too.He went to sleep in the car so nothing would happen to it and hit the shifter by accident and it rolled over to zero,lol.Ah,i loved that show,lol.

I thought of the same thing.



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My mom has a 91 Chevy Blazer tahoe with 4.3 V6. It just went over 300k on the factory motor. Only had routine stuff (at least what I consider routine if you keep a car for a long time), 2 water pumps, brakes, AC, Alternator, shocks, tires etc... Great truck. Plan to keep it in the family.



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