My experience with owning three FJ60’s, is that the 80 series is the next inline to increase in value. I never paid over $3500 for an FJ60, one I paid $2000, and now they are in a lot of movies and commercials and imho are bringing outrageous prices for high mileage examples. As more 80 series...
I'm hanging on to my '94 for at least a few more years. I remember during the last downturn, 60's were cheap, but recently have exploded in price. The 80 series will do the same, go down temporarily, then sky rocket when(if) the economy recovers. The more 80's that get scrapped or modded makes...
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Condition, condition, condition! Bad paint, interior, etc. will take a mint to bring up to nice condition if desired.
Still, it's a good entry price for a driver.
It happened the last time fuel prices were sky high right before the last recession (2007/08). You could pick up any gas guzzler for peanuts, including Landcruisers. The price of used fuel-sipping cars went up and were in high demand. Then the bottom fell out when oil prices shrank down and you...
I'm comparing apples to watermelons. I've owned three 60's and was missing the old school feel of them compared to the newer school feel of the 80. I just haven't had that fall in love feeling like you get driving the older classics. I do think that the 80 is the best looking and it represents...
I have been surprised at the upkeep costs of the 80 series compared to my previous FJ60's. I hardly ever had to do anything to the old 2F's besides occasional valve adjustments. The FZJ80 seems like the baselining never ends and the quirky nature of diagnosing problems is way more complicated...
I think most people on here don't give up their paid for price is because of two main reasons.
First, if they put it up for sale on here, there is always somebody who will point out what the owner originally paid in the add and try to make the seller seem as a greedy flipper and tank any...
IMHO the gas prices are starting to pick away at leisure buyers since it will be harder to justify buying a 30 year old vehicle that gets 13 mpg. A looming recession is also putting cold water on the market. Collectors will still pay the big $$ for extremely clean, low mileage, locked, examples.
Great looking rig! Congrats on the quick sale! I agree that it probably was priced a bit low, but you got the quick sale you were after so it was a win win for both parties.
You can always add lockers(harrop, ARB, etc), unless your looking for a collector 80 to resell, then the oem locker option adds to the resell value. When I was shopping for my '94, I bought the cleanest example I could afford, not to resell, but to keep. It doesn't have lockers and I don't care...
The '97 model went for $27k w/o lockers.
The '93 went for $37k with lockers.
So $10k is the spread for locked vs. unlocked, not withstanding the early vs. late model comparison.
I give up on guessing this new market, this isn't a Landcruiser but it's indicative of a crazy market. These usually go for under $5k. I sold one 5 years ago for $1500.:bang:
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So this has been said numerous times, but what if the lockers are aftermarket vs. oem. Would there be a difference in value with say a Harrop's front and rear locker or even ARB compared to an original k294 rig in price?