It’s interesting the dichotomy between perceived value of an object vs. it‘s advertised/marketed value. Not even getting into period correctness, aesthetics, design choices, engineering choices.
How do we know this truck exists?
Has anyone seen it?
Is the article referenced merely an advertisement? who is the person posting? What value is there of posting a vehicle that is 100% out of the buying realm of 99% or Land Cruiser owners? Who are the people paying $250,000.00 for an 80 series? Would we want to be their friend? What if, in fact, we are their friends— whether we know it or not?
I know plenty of people with the disposable income to pay $250K for a vintage truck, but they don’t. They build a vacation home for their family to commune; They fund an endowed professorship or a foundation; they give to their church or house of worship; they buy a boat or a fleet of snow mobiles so they can take their family and friends out on snow mobile adventures; they buy planes; they invest; they give to the homeless;
You can see where this is going.
I’ve become suspect of most of what I see out side of MUD when it comes to veracity about Land Cruisers.
There are bots trolling right now sifting information from this site— data analytics, technical information, biographical information, pictures, documents, etc. Basically getting more information for click bait articles that accentuate the extremes of the Land Cruiser spectrum. It’s meant to do that; these are algorithms. Most information outside of vetted sources are either entirely bogus and erroneous or merely placed in a person‘s feed to sell something.
This is an enthusiast site, sure, but don’t forget this is the most comprehensive knowledge base of Land Cruiser technical information and technical truth in the world, on the internet— outside of the archives of Toyota Auto Body/ARACO/GIFU/Arakawa Auto Body and Toyota Motor Corporation themselves.
There are people on this site with 20/30/40/50 years of intimate knowledge about Land Cruisers and their entire world. Do not discount the power of information transformed into a coherent narrative.
So yeah, this truck is expensive from the point of view of detail and power plant and other things;
But in the end, it is an object and a commodity with a value— a value that is relative based on purely economic means, in the end. And the people running the show— advertisers, marketers, companies, influencer, opinion holders, “journalists,” widget builders, etc., know this.
How do we know this truck exists?
Has anyone seen it?
Is the article referenced merely an advertisement? who is the person posting? What value is there of posting a vehicle that is 100% out of the buying realm of 99% or Land Cruiser owners? Who are the people paying $250,000.00 for an 80 series? Would we want to be their friend? What if, in fact, we are their friends— whether we know it or not?
I know plenty of people with the disposable income to pay $250K for a vintage truck, but they don’t. They build a vacation home for their family to commune; They fund an endowed professorship or a foundation; they give to their church or house of worship; they buy a boat or a fleet of snow mobiles so they can take their family and friends out on snow mobile adventures; they buy planes; they invest; they give to the homeless;
You can see where this is going.
I’ve become suspect of most of what I see out side of MUD when it comes to veracity about Land Cruisers.
There are bots trolling right now sifting information from this site— data analytics, technical information, biographical information, pictures, documents, etc. Basically getting more information for click bait articles that accentuate the extremes of the Land Cruiser spectrum. It’s meant to do that; these are algorithms. Most information outside of vetted sources are either entirely bogus and erroneous or merely placed in a person‘s feed to sell something.
This is an enthusiast site, sure, but don’t forget this is the most comprehensive knowledge base of Land Cruiser technical information and technical truth in the world, on the internet— outside of the archives of Toyota Auto Body/ARACO/GIFU/Arakawa Auto Body and Toyota Motor Corporation themselves.
There are people on this site with 20/30/40/50 years of intimate knowledge about Land Cruisers and their entire world. Do not discount the power of information transformed into a coherent narrative.
So yeah, this truck is expensive from the point of view of detail and power plant and other things;
But in the end, it is an object and a commodity with a value— a value that is relative based on purely economic means, in the end. And the people running the show— advertisers, marketers, companies, influencer, opinion holders, “journalists,” widget builders, etc., know this.
