Michigan Man Has Collected 24 Land Cruisers in Just Over a Year
Chad Nasir grew up in Libya, where Toyota Land Cruisers are admired and revered. He says “only wealthy businessmen, government personnel, and drug dealers” could afford the SUVs in his country. Financing wasn’t available, so Land Cruisers belonged to people with a lot of cash on hand.
When he moved to the United States, he made himself a promise: when he became successful, he’d start buying them. A little over a year ago, Nasir bought his first Land Cruiser. Now he owns a little over two dozen of them.
Nasir lives in Michigan now and owns a business called Midnight Protective Films, installing window tint, vinyl wrap, and ceramic coating. Nearby in a warehouse, his collection of Land Cruisers waits for the next one to join the crew. Every one of Nasir’s Land Cruisers has been imported, all are left-hand drive, and every one of them has a manual transmission. He doesn’t finance a single one of them; he pays cash for each.
His first Land Cruisers were a 2013 and 2015; one for Nasir and one for his dad. After that, he started hunting for the classics. He found a 70-Series Land Cruiser pickup in Saudi Arabia with only 60,000 miles on it, and he had to figure out how to buy it, register it there, then import it to the US and register it here. The Land Cruisers are inspected locally through Nasir's network and approved for purchase.
“Every [Land Cruiser] purchase has very low mileage,” he says. “The one with the highest has 180,000 miles but it’s still super clean, a 1997.”
Nasir buys one or two Land Cruisers every month for the last 15 months, with no end in sight. He's in the process of buying three more: one from Qatar, one from Yemen, and one in Oman. All are imported to Michigan, where Nasir mostly just… enjoys them. He drives the models with higher mileage (his 2015 has more than 200,000 miles on the clock) and keeps the other ones for fun.
Looks like he's finally made it.
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