93 year old woman retires her '64 Mercury after driving 576000 Miles

After about 576,000 miles (927,000 kilometres), 18 batteries, eight mufflers and 48 years, a 93-year-old Florida grandmother and her classic car have reached the end of the road.

Rachel Veitch, who lives in Orlando, hung up the keys to her 1964 Mercury Comet Caliente after she ran a red light last month and realized her vision had failed her.

"I am legally blind, so I can no longer drive my lovely chariot," she told Fox News. "They don't have to take it away, I would not dream of driving that car again."

Veitch, a retired nurse, told that her car had outlasted three marriages and three sets of shocks.

She bought the car in 1964 for $3,289.