4: 1971 Junker Toyota Land Cruiser
Few sport utility vehicles have managed to be as iconic as the Land Cruiser has. This is why the SUV still commands a high price today. Reddit user red weasel told the story of growing up with a Land Cruiser. “My family had the Car From Hell when I was a teenager. It was a 1971 Toyota Land Cruiser, station-wagon model — sort of the same shape as today’s SUVs, only smaller in general scale. (They still make ’em today, but now they’re like regular cars, all upholstered and with bucket seats and stuff; back in my day, the only upholstery was the bench-seat cushions themselves, and maybe a little padding on the ceiling; the doors, dashboard, floors, etc. were plain (okay, painted) metal.
“For its time it was a big, beefy, powerful vehicle, one of the very few of its kind in the Eastern US. It was always a thrill to see “another Toyota” driving down the road. It was a great vehicle for many years, and took us across the continent and back several times, including four-wheeling over some of the most forbidding territory in the country, but my parents never liked to replace a car so we drove it until 1981, and by then it had seen better days.”