When I was in college I worked with a fellow whom I thought was really old at the time.  He was probably in his sixties.  That was perhaps 1964.  He still had log books for all the cars (only four of them), that he'd ever owned, starting with a 1938 Chevrolet.  He recorded everything, including gasoline purchases, even windshield cleaning.  If it was done to his car, it was in the book.   mcneely

---- Robert Stevens <mtbiker62@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I keep a small log book in the glove box, and I record all oil changes, ANY kind
> of mechanical work, adding new parts, lubing CV's, etc., etc.. I rotate my tires evey
> time I change the oil, and that get's logged into this book. All this activity is dated
> and the odo mileage recorded. Differential lube changes, transaxle lube changes,
> coolant changes, all of it.
>
> I've been doing this on all my vehicles since I started buying cars when I
> was 16, 54 years ago. Since I don't expect myself to remember off the top,
> when these intervals and activities took place, it just seems like a simple,
> rational and easy way to create a resource that I can refer to. It was handed
> down to me by my mother, the only person more anal than me that I've met
> in the last 70 years.
>
> Bob
> '87 Syncro Westy-DAS 4X4

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David McNeely