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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ NPC - 2.7mm mile `66 Volvo P1800 on NOVA Science Now
Posted by: Tom_T Mar 15 2012, 01:16 PM
I saw a leading segment on NOVA Science Now on PBS about the red 1966 Volvo P1800 owned by the NY former school teacher OO that he's driven 2.7+ mm miles*, & is in the Guinness Book for it. Look for it on your local PBS channel.
Yup - that's 27 times turned over on it's 5 digit odometer like our 914s have! 
It was also featured in Hemmings Sports & Exotics last year IIRC.
Interesting but not an in depth car guy/gal coverage, but nice to see old cars getting some wider "cred"! 
*EDIT: The abbreviation above of "mm" or "MM" is from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000 = 1,000,000 or million.
So that's 2,700,000+ miles as of the show, 2,500,000+ miles as of the HS&E article linked below.
Posted by: Tom_T Mar 15 2012, 01:26 PM
Here's a link to the HS&E article for those interested:
http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2011/11/01/hmn_feature1.html
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Posted by: SirAndy Mar 15 2012, 01:39 PM
What's a mm mile???
2.7 Millimeter Miles? 
Posted by: Tom_T Mar 15 2012, 01:49 PM
What's a mm mile???
2.7 Millimeter Miles?
mm = abbrev. for million used for dollars in our spreadsheets, financial analysis, etc. for 40+ years.
News journalists tend to use M instead, so use whichever works in your mind!
However, I understand your confusion coming from the land of mm's!
PS - It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000, but IMHO & that of most doing such financials & proformas use lower case so it doesn't visually overwhelm the data presentation.
Sorry to corn-fuse the readers out there!
Posted by: DBCooper Mar 15 2012, 05:43 PM
It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000
I've used that forever and never knew why. Thanks.
Posted by: Tom_T Mar 15 2012, 06:01 PM
It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000
I've used that forever and never knew why. Thanks.
Yeah, after Andy's comment I was afraid folks would think I meant "millimeter miles" for a Hot Wheels sized one!
Posted by: bembry Mar 18 2012, 01:35 AM
always liked the P1800
Posted by: 914pwer Mar 18 2012, 05:16 AM
this is from when Volvo was volvo and saab was Saab two swedish panzerwagens 
Posted by: worn Mar 18 2012, 09:09 AM
What's a mm mile???
2.7 Millimeter Miles?
mm = abbrev. for million used for dollars in our spreadsheets, financial analysis, etc. for 40+ years.
News journalists tend to use M instead, so use whichever works in your mind!
However, I understand your confusion coming from the land of mm's!
PS - It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000, but IMHO & that of most doing such financials & proformas use lower case so it doesn't visually overwhelm the data presentation.
Sorry to corn-fuse the readers out there!
It may be common to money folks but to an engineer two lowercase ms are always going to read a thousandth of a meter. The clearest abbreviation for million would be mega since m is problematic for numerous reasons mille miglia is a thousand miles even though Mille sounds to us in the states as million.
Posted by: Tom_T Mar 19 2012, 02:25 PM
What's a mm mile???
2.7 Millimeter Miles?
mm = abbrev. for million used for dollars in our spreadsheets, financial analysis, etc. for 40+ years.
News journalists tend to use M instead, so use whichever works in your mind!
However, I understand your confusion coming from the land of mm's!
PS - It's actually & technically "MM" - from Roman Numerals for 1000x1000, but IMHO & that of most doing such financials & proformas use lower case so it doesn't visually overwhelm the data presentation.
Sorry to corn-fuse the readers out there!
It may be common to money folks but to an engineer two lowercase ms are always going to read a thousandth of a meter. The clearest abbreviation for million would be mega since m is problematic for numerous reasons mille miglia is a thousand miles even though Mille sounds to us in the states as million.
2,700,000
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