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You could argue that reaching its 50th Anniversary is or isn’t a milestone for the Volvo P1800, since the car went out of production in 1973. But one man who has kept the car going is New Yorker Irv Gordon, who holds the world record for longest-running car.

Gordon purchased a new P1800 in 1966, and has been driving it ever since. When the car hit one million miles, Volvo sent him a new 780. Gordon continued driving the P1800 and set the Guinness Record when it hit 1.69 million miles back in 1998.

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