HAL Turns 8

So yeah.... I missed Hals 8th birthday....  On April 26, 2003, I got rid of Black Magic...aka... POS... and made the best car purchase ever!!!!

Cannot believe its been 8 years....  202500 miles.... Amazing. 

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Continuing the slow climb to 205,000....

Slow week....and one number short

Its been a slow week or two for Hal as I've been spending most of my time in a work vehicle. 1700 miles worth of work vehicle road time since April 10th...

Anyways...here's a shot from my way to work this morning....got nine different numbers between the mileage and trip indicator.  Still shooting for all ten digits.  

Two oh One, One oh Two

As I'm pretty sure you guessed by now... I'm probably not going to stop with the dorky odometer photos. Someday, I might actually take a picture of HAL so you can see that he still looks pretty much identical to all those other photos I've taken of him. The second picture above is the last known photo of HAL not covered in snow. It was taken while I was staffing the World Equestrian Games in Lexington in September 2010. Not really an exciting photo..but one that made HAL proud to be at such a big event...getting a special parking permit to hang with law enforcement cruisers all day.

So...I hit 201,102 this morning on the way to work. So yeah...I'm cruising along at about 150 miles per day. Am trying to keep my eye on the odometer to see if I can catch it showing all ten of the digits 0 through 9 (6 mileage, 4 trip tick). That should be fun and interesting....

Anyhoo...no weird stats today honestly...HAL's 8th Birthday is coming up in a could of weeks. I'm thinking about taking him to the car wash :)

HAL CROSSES 200,000 MILES!!!!!!!

At 829PM EDT on Sunday April 3rd, while about 10 miles from home toward the end of my return to Kentucky from Michigan, HAL and I crossed over the 200,000 mile mark! Thanks to Heather for writing down the time we crossed the big 200k...as I was on the phone with her at the time.

So yes... I was on the phone (bluetooth) and driving 70 mph when I snapped the 200,000 odometer picture. :-) I was also driving for pretty much every other picture in the image above. Wouldn't seem right to be taking pictures of HAL's odometer...without actually being on the road turning over miles :)

All that driving...and HAL and I have only managed to visit 17 states on the road :-)

So...200,000 Miles for HAL was 7296 gallons of gas that cost $20,046.63 to purchase since April of 2003. Wow... that's a lot of $$$ and yes, 683 trips to the gas station. And yes... I write every trip to the gas station down...and yes, I always fill the tank completely. OCD much? :-)

The total miles per gallon for the life of HAL: 27.23

So far in 2011 - Am averaging $3.46/gallon :-( and 29.17 miles per gallon :-).

Some Mileage Stats for HAL...

Second 100,000 miles (2/18/09-4/03/11) - 774 days at 129.19 miles/day
First 100,000 miles (4/23/03-2/18/09) - 2128 days or about 47 miles/day
First 30,500 miles (4/23/03-11/5/05) - 927 days or 32.9 miles/day

Mileage by the #s
15,000 miles 01/01/2011 to 04/03/2011
50,000 miles 12/31/2009 to 12/31/2010

Last 5,000 miles (195k-200k) in 27 days at 185.18 miles/day

Last 20,000 miles in 148 days at 135.13 miles/day
Last 65,000 miles in 460 days at 141.30 miles/day

The 250,000 Mile estimator
at 125 miles/day = 400 days (May 2012)
at 150 miles/day = 333 days (early March 2012)