While we were seated at our desks like good worker bees yesterday, Irv Gordon was continuing his assault on the record books. Gordon, if you recall, is the original owner of a red 1966 Volvo P1800 ...

AOL Autos has been following Irv Gordon and his journey to three million miles in his 1966 Volvo P1800 for a while. Today he announced that he is within 50 miles of his goal and plans to reach it ...

That category may sound a little too niche but the truth is Irv Gordon of East Patchogue, New York, covered more than 3.2 million miles with his 1966 Volvo P1800 before passing away in November 1918.

Volvo built nearly 50,000 of these from 1961 ... That's precisely what Irv Gordon did with his multi-million mile P1800, setting the record for the most miles driven in a single car.