The 82-Year Journey of Allen Swift and His 1928 Rolls-Royce"
Mr. Allen Swift drove a very interesting automobile. He was born in 1908, many years ago. He didn't purchase a new car till late in life. Allen was given an automobile as a prize for graduating in 1928. It was a 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly-P 1 roadster. https://a.co/d/g4rlL6k Allen was given an automobile as a graduation gift in 1928. It was a 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly-P1 roadster.Roadster.His father purchased it for him brand new! Do you know what's truly amazing? Allen has been driving the same car for nearly his whole life. He kept it all the way till his death in 2010. That's 82 years with the same automobile! Can you imagine driving the same vehicle for that long? Allen was exactly 102 years old. As a result, he became the oldest individual to still own their original vehicle.
After Allen died, they donated his car to a museum in Springfield, Massachusetts. Do you know how many miles it had been driven? https://a.co/d/7h0irHk A whopping 1,070,000 miles! That's more than one million miles in that car. It was still running perfectly too. As smooth as could be at any speed. And it looked great for being such an old car at 82 years.
To drive that far over all those years comes out to about 13,000 miles each year on average. Each month around 1,000 miles. One million, seventy thousand miles - https://a.co/d/cSnDzNn not kilometers! That Rolls-Royce was built so well back in Britain long ago. Allen took really good care of it too. Pretty amazing someone could have the same car for their whole life, right?
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