resetting odometer!

[xsr/tse]

if resetting your odometer is illegal, this speedometer on ebay  might solve the problem with an extra digit.  #262029192874  what do you think?

[birdsandbees]

I think it's stupid, but so is the third post in 5 years just to flog your own listing. 

[A383Wing]

unless your car is 10 years old or less, resetting the odometer is not a problem

[ws23rt]

I wonder if the issue of resetting an odometer really means anything important today as it may have 40 years ago?

We do see low numbers on odometers from time to time but the rest of the car tells the cars history. The odometer is just one of many details one looks at when accessing an old car. Miles/age are added to a car that hasn't rolled for years and the number on the odometer will not roll back the ravages of time passing.

I have a 69 coronet rt Hemi car that I bought in 1980. It had 49,950 on the clock when I bought it and I always thought that to be kinda cool.
When I fixed it and got it running it didn't take long to run 50 miles and make the odometer turn over 50K. I could have pulled the speedometer cable to keep it low but what would be the point?  The car lives again and should have a new starting number considering what I did to the car.

It is an odd thing we sometimes have with numbers.   Even back in the day of our cars the odometer told nothing about what was happening to the car as it rolled down the road.   Also changes like tire size (for example) would change the real number in miles traveled as well as many other little things.

For those that like knowing stuff like how far their car has moved across ground surface-- perhaps new tec. with GPS tracking would help with the our new cars? That info could be hard to roll back.

[Brock Lee]

I wonder how many of our cars even have the originals in them anymore.

Local laws and how you register the car makes a difference too. I lived in one state where I had to register it as an antique to avoid corrupt vehicle "inspections". The mileage portion of the registration had EXEMPT in it and they never asked for the mileage. Where I live now, the first year I registered it as a regular car, I didn't expect the mileage questions so I "guessed". I was way over. When I went in for vanity plates and gave them the correct mileage, they didn't even notice the discrepancy.

[1974dodgecharger]

OP will come back next year and ask the same question 

in fact he already left after he posted and wont return to check for responses 

[el dub]

Those miles on the odometer also were showing you the miles on the engine. People would get suckered paying hi dollars on a high mileage engine. That's why it was against the law to mess with the odometer..Back in those days in these cars engine life was 100k, time to do the top end. Equals more money.