He is known as The Legend. Like every superhero, Vancouver pizza-delivery guy Charlie Cowley has a vehicle with superpowers: A two-door, 1982 Chevy Chevette.

It doesn’t have performance, advanced technology or bat wings, but it does have durability, character and a certain no-frills cachet.

Cowley, 69, has been delivering pizza, steaks and souvlaki dinners for Minerva’s Restaurant in Kerrisdale for 37 years.

The car’s odometer only has five digits, but Cowley estimates he has clocked over 500,000 kilometres in the Chevette.

“Maybe nobody thought it would last this long,” he said.

He had it painted GM factory orange after the original silver paint wore off. His friend, Art, helps him find the increasingly rare parts that keep it on the road. “He’s the unsung hero in all this,” said Cow

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