The Fantasy Utility Vehicle: A $300,000 Nostalgia Trip

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Would you drop $300k on that 4x4 you craved in high school?

BETTER BUCKLE your chinstrap: This is a story about people—mostly dudes—spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and waiting years, in some cases, for handbuilt restoration-modernizations of 1950s-1980s 4x4s—Toyota Land Cruisers, International Scouts, Land Rover Defenders, Ford Broncos, Willys Wagons, Jeep Cherokees—jacked up like a wrestling-team strength coach and rumbling like Vulcan’s very bowels.

These are more than SUVs, more than vintage off-roaders; these are fantasy-utility vehicles, towering...

 

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I was upstate NY waiting for my divorce.i had a 2001 keep Cherokee sport I found a company called quadratec all the goodies for my Jeep.

Ugly.

People get money and don’t know what to do with it

I think I saw Hank Kimball with on of these on Green Acres last night.

Sweet!

One doesn't have to spend 000s of 0000s to wait for years for restoration! 🤣

I thought this was going to be an article about Marty McFly's awesome Toyota in Back to the Future:

💦🍆 yes

Nope, move forward and buy a Tesla 🙄

Isn't 300K better to use Paying student debt?

A fool and his money......

N-O spells no.

Hell no.

hell no, I struggle to tell myself that I still want my $20K car. cars

I imagine it depends on a persons financials. Some of my clients earn 10’s of millions of dollars per day. So for them $300k is breakfast money. Personally, I’d find it wasteful for a 4x4 and when it comes to autos, I’d buy one that would appreciate in value over time

Anyone who craved this car in high school is an old fuck.

these are the same losers whining about debt forgiveness

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