We’re large Land Cruiser followers, however to recommend that Chad Nasir merely likes Toyota’s legendary SUV hardly does the person’s ardour justice. He’s obsessive about them, and in little over a 12 months has taken his assortment from zero to 24 examples.

What makes Michigan-based Nasir’s assortment all of the extra attention-grabbing is that nearly each Land Cruiser in his fleet is left-hand drive, outfitted with a handbook transmission, and was sourced from the Center East after which shipped to America. Nasir defined to Street & Monitor that he grew up in Libya, the place Land Cruisers had been high-status automobiles obtainable solely to the very rich, and promised himself following his transfer to the U.S. that he’d begin shopping for them when funds allowed.

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The primary pair of SUVs had been 2013 and 2015 U.S.-market Land Cruisers, however after that he forged his internet throughout the globe and again in time, snapping up classics like a 70-Sequence pickup from Saudi Arabia and a ton of 80-Sequence fashions. In line with reporter Kristin Shaw, Nasir has been shopping for between one and two Land Cruisers each month for the previous 15 months and exhibits no signal of stopping. Some have greater than 200,000 miles (320,000 km) on the clock and are used for day by day duties, whereas others have lined solely 60,000 miles (100,000 km) and are saved for particular events.

A set this huge wants a suitably giant storage, however fortuitously Nasir has a kind of within the type of an enormous unit the place he can retailer and work on his basic fleet to maintain the SUVs in prime situation. His day job ought to come in useful right here as a result of Nasir owns Midnight Protecting Movies, whose providers embrace making use of protecting ceramic coatings in addition to window tints and vinyl wraps.

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