A newspaper delivery contractor since the 1960s, Hebley's Corolla ticked over the two million kilometre mark earlier in the month.
Hebley, who lives in Upper Hutt, drives from Wellington up to New Plymouth and back six days a week for his job, which includes delivering the Whanganui Chronicle.
His connection to Whanganui is through Guthrie's Auto Care, which has serviced his Corolla every two weeks for the last 22 years.
Hebley averages around 5000km per week, hence why he gets it serviced every fortnight.
"I broke down one morning in one of my vans. I rang John Sherman from Guthrie's and he came out and helped me. I have been getting all of my servicing done since then."
"Apparently it was used to deliver chippies in Tokyo before I got it."
Besides general and frequent servicing, there hasn't been a whole lot of changes made to the Toyota.
The cambelt has been replaced almost 20 times and wheel bearings changed, but besides that the car is basically original.
"It still has the original engine and transmission," said Guthrie's John Sherman.
"If I hadn't worked on it, I wouldn't believe it. I wouldn't believe it could do two million without something going wrong. It's only because I know that I believe it. Otherwise, I wouldn't."
