1992 Land Cruiser with 38k miles

[ERG80]

The ebay response from reporting an ad doesn’t give much confidence anything will happen to the seller or ad.

 

[alia176]

I sold my Range Rover Classic and decided that I no longer want to just make it to the woods but I want to make it home as well so I've been researching Land Cruisers.

Today I saw this listing and am both incredibly intrigued and terrified by the mileage. I'm about 2 seconds from getting on a plane from Philadelphia to JFK and driving this thing home. The miles concern me because if it really sat that long there's going to be cracking issues with belts and hoses, fluid issues, etc. Plus if I pay for a 38k mile cruiser am I going to be kicking myself when I put 10k miles on it in a year? I also would want to do modifications to the interior and would that take away from the eventual value of such a low mileage vehicle. I'll take it to get fluids and compression checked once I buy it but what do you guys think?

1992 Toyota Land Cruiser -- | eBay

Dude, you're used to a 3.9 V8 or at best a 4.2 V8 so stay the HELL away from an 80 series pre '93. Although you aren't used to neck snapping power, the '91/'92 will not make you happy.

When you step on that gas pedal of a '91-'92,, she'll say something like "umm, you're kidding me, right?".
When you step on the gas pedal of a '93-'97, she'll say something like "ummm, let me think on it. Is the road flat? is there a head wind? Did you advance my timing to 8º? Am I running 33" or smaller tires? Are we towing? Ok, I'll speed up then.".

 

[FolsomTony]

I know everyone thinks the 3FE is slow, but it took some of you about 6 weeks to reply to the the original post. My 3FE is faster than that.