Spotted on Craigslist 86 G.M LOW MILES!

[WagonMan]

Not mine.

http://hartford.craigslist.org/cto/5842389481.html

[Mainemantom]

Beautiful Merc. Looks like General Motors wire wheel covers though.

[Giraffe]

I've noticed that even with the supposed issue of rust taking most of these cars before their time, clean examples like this one still go for much less money than down here where we don't have the rust problem. They'd probably be asking $5k or more if that was on the Dallas craigslist.

[fordnmerc]

Sometimes mileage can be too low. In 1996 I bought a 1973 Mustang with 22k original miles....and then had to replace a lot of parts just from all of that sitting.

The 2000 P71 that I just traded for has 154k miles and fully a third of that was put on in the past 2 years. All of the front suspension components have been replaced, the alternator, the intake, oil changes every 3k with Mobil-1 full synthetic, it hasn't been just sitting around unused somewhere for months and years and I am a happy camper.

[DerekTheGreat]

That is why I don't get bothered by high mileage.

[WagonMan]

Funny thing about the spoke wheel covers. I have an NOS center cap Part# E8MY-1141-B that fits the General Motors spoke wheel covers. I have never seen them on a car though.

[fordnmerc]

My 90 Grand Marquis GS came from the factory with spoke wheel covers. The right front cover was dented and missing that Mercury center emblem and I took them off and put on a different type of covers shortly after this photo was taken:

[fordnmerc]

Found a pic of what the 90 Mercury ones look like close-up. The ones for the mid 80s were different and had a red center.

[sly]

Those look like GM wire hubcaps, but I can't place the center emblem.