Why don't classics do more than 100K

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I find it very interesting that classics for sale very rarely have more than 100,000 miles on the clock, even cars that must have been used regular in their early life often have relatively low mileages. I could understand lots of low mileage Ferraris but Minis and MGB's!!!

Is this due to returning to zero after 99,999 miles or are they all being clocked. A 40 year old car would only average 2,500 miles a year to reach the 100K, surely the majority of cars for sale must have exceeded this even if the majority was done in the first 10-15 years and the car had lighter use since then. I think people are too hung up on mileage, I have recently put my car back on the road after a full rebuild and have put 2500 miles on it in a few months of occasional use and cannot wait for the clock to turn after 100K as this means that after all my effort it is being used for what it was intended.

I also run a old Vauxhall as a daily driver that had 3200 miles on it when I bought it earlier this year but I bought it because of its amazing condition and not the low mileage and it now has nearly 7000 miles on it with people keep telling me to disconnect the speedo.

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Shezbo said:

Does the OP not realise that most classic's only have speedo's that can record 5 digit's?

I understand this but does everyone else I'm sure that most of these 30-40k cars are actually 130-140k there can't be that many cars that have only done a few hundred miles a year.