Just last week we reported that a man in Wisconsin was just 1,200 miles short of crossing the million mile mark in his 1991 Chevrolet Silverado and now comes word of a Ford on the brink of the same milestone. Doug Schell of Holland, Ohio is about to register one million miles on his 1997 Ford E-250 cargo van.
As was the case with the Silverado, Schell bought his van used with about 40,000 miles on the clock. Since the purchase, Schell has racked up between 80,000 and 100,000 miles per year making deliveries for Bolt Express.
But unlike the Silverado, the E-250 hasn’t always received routine maintenance. Schell admits to changing the van’s oil every 10,000 miles and has let it go 55,000 between changes. But despite the van’s less-than-regular maintenance, its engine and transmission have never had to been replaced or rebuilt. However, Schell has done without air conditioning for the past five years.
Schell has no plans to retire the van — in fact, he plans to get at least another 100,000 miles out of it — but was considering “throwing it a party.”
