My brother bought the car new and drove it until it had 146K miles then I bought it and I’ve put the rest on it. so I know the mileage is accurate although it would be hard to prove it because of the old 5 digit type odometer. When I bought it I was hoping to be able to drive another 100K miles out of it. If it makes it another 28K I will have put 400K on it myself, not bad for a $500 car. The most intensive repairs have been rebuilding the front end a few times (ball joints, tie rod ends, and steering rack), a couple clutches and timing belt/water pump replacement. The last clutch lasted about 260K miles and the current one has about 210K on it. The only clutch that wore out prematurely was the original. My niece drove the car a few times while my brother owned it, apparently she wasn’t too good with a straight shift. I’ve really not spent much money at all on the car, because I do 98%+ of the work myself and most of the parts that have been replaced I replaced with lifetime warranty parts so whenever something does wear out I just take it off and go get a new one. It has lifetime front/rear brakes, right and left ball joints, tie rod ends, steering rack, clutch, pressure plate, throw out bearing, ignition module, water pump, fuel pump, front and rear struts and maybe other parts I can’t think of right now. Auto Zone will certainly be glad to see this one wear out!! I bought another '88 Escort for $800 a few years ago that had been owned by an elderly lady who had quit driving, it had 78K original miles and was nearly like a new car inside and out so if the Pony ever wears out I’ll strip it down before sending it to the junk yard and store parts in the garage to use on the GL.
I also owned a '76 Chrysler many years ago, I drove it as a daily driver until it had 231K miles and sold it to a friend and his wife who didn’t have a car or much money and needed cheap tranportation. I don’t know how many miles he put on it after I sold it to him, but he drove the crap out of it a couple years after buying it from me. The last time I saw the Chrysler it was on a flat bed going through town, it had be crushed and was on it’s way to be reincarnated into a new car. I’m not sure whether the car wore out or not, he quit driving it about the time an emissions testing law was passed and I know it didn’t have a catalytic converter on it, because I had removed it when I first bought the car with 32K miles on it. It may have just been going to cost more to get it to pass inspection than the car was worth.