How long did you keep your last car for?
Three years? Five years? Ten years?
Well, Margaret Dunning, a 102-year-old from Michigan, USA, has been driving the same 1930 Packard for sixty-three years.
Dunning bought the Packard 740 Roadster in 1949, when the car was already nineteen years old, and set about restoring it to its former glory. And over half a century later, she still changes her own oil and spark plugs.
Dunning is a regular on the antique car show circuit, where she is known as the 'Belle of the Concours'.
"I love the old cars," Dunning told The Akron Beacon Journal. "I love the smell of gasoline. It runs in my veins."
Dunning learned to drive at the age of 8 on her family's farm near Detroit, and secured her first driving licence at the age of 12. The more mathematically-minded of you may therefore have worked out that Dunning has been driving for 90 years, which almost undoubtedly makes her the world's most experienced driver.
These days we treat cars as a disposable commodity, using them up and selling them on, and hoping not to lose too much cash in the process. Dunning's Packard is proof that we're missing a trick.
