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Frank Oresnik is on the verge of making history driving his old standby - the 1991 Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck he says is about to pass the 1 million mile mark.
The truck has had four radiators, three gas tanks, five transmissions and six water pumps, but the engine has never been overhauled, Oresnik said. ( Im impressed it made it this long )

He said the truck is 1,200 miles from a million, and once he hits the mark he will retire the vehicle.
{wonder if GM will donate him a new one and take this old one off his hands .} [they may want to find out what they did so right/wrong for it to last ]

He credits proper maintenance and a good measure of luck for allowing the truck to rack up so many miles. He said he's had more than 300 oil changes and tuneups at the Medford business, going in every 3,000 miles.
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He bought the Silverado in June 1996 after the original owner put 41,000 miles on it. Oresnik uses the vehicle to deliver seafood in three states, putting on about 85,000 miles a year.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200802 ... F0M00.html

He won't beat Herb Gordon's record of over 2 million miles on his '66 Volvo 1800 S.

I don't want to thin about how much gas had cost him

who cares, it is a business expense.

On my Chevy 71 El Camino, I had over 400,000 and the motor was still going strong. I had to replace the radiator once. Replace the transmission once. Had to replace the head gasket twice. Each time the mechanic took the heads off, it was clean with no carbon build up, even after using leaded gas during those years. He wanted to know what I was doing to the motor. I told him that I was adding one quart of ATF at each oil change.
I sold the truck in 1995 as the head gasket went again, and I had now 5 total in my family (wife and 3 kids). Since the truck only sat 3 max, it was not a family car, so I sold it for $1000. The body though was gone, as I lived by the beach for 10 years, so the salt air killed the body.