In a message dated 9/22/05 7:23:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jbange@GMAIL.COM
writes:

> But then BenT pointed out it had 40K+ miles in march '91,

my ex '86 westy had around the same (40k) miles in '90, when it was first
registered in the US.

the orig owner had bought it in europe, as part of the european delivery
program, drove it around europe for 4 years and 40k mi, then shipped it over to
the USA...

same thing could have taken place...