The odometer clicked over to 777,777 miles while Marty Simonich of Eden, Utah, was on vacation in Jackson Hole. His son couldn't help but brag about it to passersby.

"People would look at the odometer," recalled the car's owner. "My kid used to say, 'You know, this thing's got 700,000 miles on it.'"

Now another milestone is approaching.

The odometer on this same 2001 Subaru Outback Legacy sedan now reads around 990,430, and at the rate he drives — roughly 150 miles round-trip each day from his mountain home to his job near Promontory Point — he expects to cross 1 million miles by March.

The Butte, Montana, native has been behind the wheel of the same white Legacy sedan for 24 years, guiding it through snowstorms, across the Bonneville Salt Flats at 120 mph, and through at least four co

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