Volvo owner reaches two-million mile milestone

On March 27, Long Island, New York native and retired science teacher Irv Gordon is scheduled to reach a milestone no other individual has accomplished in the more than 100 years of the automobile: driving two million miles in the same vehicle.

Gordon bought his P1800 on June 30, 1966 at a neighborhood Volvo dealership for $4,150. “I was replacing a new car I had just purchased from another manufacturer that broke down on my drive home from the dealer,” Gordon said. “I love driving, and I put 1,500 miles on the P1800 during the first 48 hours I owned it. I just loved the way it drove.”

In 1998, The Guinness Book of World Records honoured Gordon’s Volvo P1800 as the vehicle with the “the highest certified mileage driven by the original owner in non-commercial service.”