The *pedestrian* meaning of rare.

[Longhorn Man]

So I was running my boss over to pick up a freightliner so we could get it back to the shop... on the way, I spotted a 70 panel on the side of the road for sale. (bondo bucket POS....with a barret jackson price tag) He spotted it and said "hey, isn't that a suburban from your truck's generation?"
As we blasted by it at 50 MPH I calmly stated it was a panel truck, and the cat was askin WAY too much.
He repeats the last part... but with a question mark... "A PANEL TRUCK?? I've never heard of that."
(by-the-way.... the boss man is 52 years old, has been involved in wrenching ince he was 12, involved in drag racing from early teens till his late 30's, run a shop for the last 20 years, been to the barret jackson carnival and even bid on a couple cars.... he knows the ins and outs of generally everything automotive)
After explaining it to him, he states... "Well, it's worth the $3800... I've never seen one... it MUST be rare."
I commented that it was worth 2500 tops (I had already looked at it the day before).. and the seller has been watching too much barret jackson.
My boss looks to me, and says... (This is where it gets funny)"Look, there's over a million ppl here in the greater columbus area.... I've never seen one here, so it's like the only one in town.... THAT my friend... is rare.

So.... by his definition, my truck is SUPER rare being that I've only seen one other longhorn here, and it was in a junk yard... crushed years ago now. I know where there are 3 or 4 panels in town.


Some ppl are idiots, and it's kinda funny to see some of them actually say something so stupid.
By the way... in 70, there were almost 4000 made. While that's not a whole lot... I don't think I would sayit is super-de-duper rare.