He imports them mainly from the Middle East.
An American who grew up in Libya has fulfilled his childhood dream of owning a Toyota Land Cruiser. Moreover, he collected a whole collection.
About it writes Road and Track.
Chad Nasir shared that “only rich businessmen, government officials and drug dealers” can afford SUVs in his country.
When he moved to the US, he made a promise to himself: when he became successful, he would start buying them. A little over a year ago, Nasir bought his first Land Cruiser. Now he owns 24 cars.
Nasir now lives in Michigan and owns Midnight Protective Films, a window tinting business.
In a warehouse nearby, his Land Cruiser collection awaits the next vehicle to join the team.
His first Land Cruisers he purchased in 2021 were 2013 and 2015 – one for himself and one for his father. After that, he started hunting for classics. He found a 70-series Land Cruiser pickup truck in Saudi Arabia with only 60,000 miles on it, and had to figure out how to buy it, register it there, then import it into the US and register it here.
“Each purchase has very low mileage,” he says. “The one with the highest mileage has 180,000 miles and is still very clean, it’s a 1997.”
Nasir has been buying one or two Land Cruisers every month for the past 15 months, with no end in sight. He drives high-mileage models and leaves the rest for fun.
Such a large collection requires a fairly large garage, but luckily Nasir has one in the form of a large space where he can store his fleet of classic cars and work on them to keep the SUVs in tip-top condition.
Now the man is in the process of buying three more cars: in Qatar, Yemen and Oman.
Recall, the swan car considered one of the craziest and the world’s most eccentric cars ever to hit the streets. It was created in the early 1900s.
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2024-01-07 08:01:18
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