A Victorian man is hoping to get up to $30,000 for his 2009 Toyota LandCruiser after driving it for a hair’s breadth less than a million kilometres.

Gary Driscoll put his pride and joy up for auction on Monday after putting it through its paces to the tune of 180km a day in his work as a stock agent in the state’s far north-west.

Whoever puts in the winning bid will get to watch the odometer click over to the magical one million mark, as Gary was nice enough to leave it sitting on 999,999km as a gift to the new owner.

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His 200 Series Sahara – which he has been driving since April 2010 – is still running its original engine and transmission, and has been serviced close to 100 times, with the starter motor replaced once she’d racked up 973,000km. 

Driscoll has been nice enough to throw in the vehicle’s original rubber mats and cargo mat, but he confesses he has no idea what will happen once the odometer turns over.

‘I’m not sure Toyota even know because I don’t think there’s been another 200 Series that has done it,’ he said.

‘So whether it goes back to zeroes … Toyota have got the feeling that it might just stay on all the nines, but we won’t know until someone gets in it and goes for a drive.’

Horsham Toyota, where the LandCruiser has been serviced, said Gary’s 4WD is the first million-kilometre vehicle the dealership has come across.

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However, the manufacturer said Gary is one of several Aussies who’ve reached the incredible milestone in one of its products.

The auction will run for two weeks and Gary’s not getting his hopes up for a huge windfall despite the LandCruiser’s undeniable rarity.

‘The car itself ordinarily might be worth $30,000 to $35,000, somewhere around that, but that’s for a car with maybe less than half those kilometres on it,’ he said.

‘I’m not sure there’d be a whole lot of people lining up for that because obviously the usefulness of the car and how much you’re going to get out of it will be diminished compared with a similar car with fewer kilometres on it.

‘So, maybe it might get $20,000 to $30,000 if someone decides there is a bit of fun factor to it.’

The biggest overhaul to the LandCruiser was the replacement of two alternators – which is outstanding considering the Toyota has spent its lifetime travelling rough country roads that Gary describes as ‘absolutely scheissenhausen’.

He hailed the vehicle’s condition by pointing out that there’s ‘not one squeak’ or rattle when he tows a trailer with it.

‘Anyone who says they don’t need to have a Sahara, well, they don’t know what they’re missing out on,’ he said.

Gary recently had to get the Cruiser towed back to Horsham Toyota, where it awaits its new owner – but not because of any mechanical failure.

He took her for a drive with a local TV news crew and had to pull over once he realised he’d gone a bit too far and would’ve gone into million-kilometre territory if he’d pressed on.

The dealership’s general sales manager, Joel Kelly, believes Toyota will speak to Gary about whether the company buys the vehicle from him so it can be added to the ‘Toyota museum’.

Interested in making a bid? You can check out the LandCruiser right here at Auctions Plus.