With just one measly mile showing on its digital odometer, the 2009 Dodge Challenger SRT8 will likely claim the title of lowest-mileage muscle car on the planet. This orange Challenger is currently up for auction Bring a trailerpacking a pre-Hellcat 6.1-liter Hemi V-8 and a six-speed manual transmission. Too bad no one has ever driven it.
Logically, that is king Be driven, at least a little. Cars coming off the assembly line are driven some distance to a loading yard, where they are transferred to either trucks or trains for shipping. Eventually, they end up on a truck to get to the dealership, usually logging quite a few miles in the process. It certainly looks like this Challenger took the more direct route, because the photos at the auction show a single mile on the digital odometer. Unfortunately there is no reading for the tenth digit, so we have no idea if this is 1.1 or 1.9.
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Photo by: Bring a Trailer
Photo by: Bring a Trailer
As you might imagine, the car looks brand new. That is, until you look at the pictures showing the undercarriage. It looks very clean for a low mileage car, but this one One mile car. The axles and some stabilizers show surface rust. We see corrosion on aluminum components. There appears to be rust running through the painted suspension components, and it sure looks like some dirt in the fenders. But the yellow Bilstein shocks look immaculate, as does everything under the hood.
According to the auction description, the Challenger has had three owners over the past 16 years. The first owner received the car without any pre-purchase inspection, in order to keep the mileage as low as possible. Subsequent owners “kept the odometer reading at one mile.” In the comments, the seller explains that the corrosion underneath the body comes from one of the previous owners who did not keep it in a climate-controlled garage. The seller also states that “dry ice will go a long way because it is just a surfactant.”
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Does a 1-mile odometer reading make this car more valuable than its other low-mileage competitors? As of January 14, bidding is $19,009 with seven days remaining in the auction. If mileage is indeed the deciding factor for the buyer, here’s hoping he doesn’t click two while loading it onto another truck for delivery.