What does 28 million buy you?

A coachbuilt Rolls Royce! (as seen on Speedhunters)

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

Enough land for me to not ever see anyone that lived next to me.

Mr_Asa said:

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

Enough land for me to not ever see anyone that lived next to me.

Similarly, my thought was a race track and a house on the same property.

preach (fs) said:

Mr_Asa said:

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

Enough land for me to not ever see anyone that lived next to me.

Similarly, my thought was a race track and a house on the same property.

Someone spending $28M on a car already has these things... 

Ian F (Forum Supporter) said:

Someone spending $28M on a car already has these things... 

Yeah but does he have a E36 M3ty house and 8 project cars, three of which are dailied?

HA!

In reply to Ian F (Forum Supporter) :

Yeah, but the question was "what does it buy you?"

You, as in me.  I am he.

$28M buys me time to do whatever I want. And I would not want a coachbuilt Rolls at that price. I hope that there was a missing decimal. 

At some point spending money is itself a hobby. Dude was going to spend that on something. Why not a coachbuilt car? 

preach (fs) said:

Mr_Asa said:

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

Enough land for me to not ever see anyone that lived next to me.

Similarly, my thought was a race track and a house on the same property.

No house, but with $21M left over, I imagine you could remedy that quite nicely:

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

No house, but with $21M left over, I imagine you could remedy that quite nicely:

There is so much drool on my desk right now.

1mil house/shop...20mil for a bunch of cool rusty cars to fix up! EDIT... I forgot to budget tires into the equation. So tires too!!!

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

preach (fs) said:

Mr_Asa said:

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

Enough land for me to not ever see anyone that lived next to me.

Similarly, my thought was a race track and a house on the same property.

No house, but with $21M left over, I imagine you could remedy that quite nicely:

Frankly, I can't believe that these people have the nerve to insist on "Legitimate offers only."  Pretty sure that's discrimination.

Shadeux said:

A coachbuilt Rolls Royce! (as seen on Speedhunters)

One thing it apparently doesn't buy is taste... And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go rinse my eyes out with bleach now.

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

It doesn't buy you a jet, you need quite a bit more than $28M for that.

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

preach (fs) said:

Mr_Asa said:

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

Enough land for me to not ever see anyone that lived next to me.

Similarly, my thought was a race track and a house on the same property.

No house, but with $21M left over, I imagine you could remedy that quite nicely:

Or buy up all the land surrounding it to ensure it doesn't get developed into a NIMBY infested HOA neighborhood.

codrus (Forum Supporter) said:

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

It doesn't buy you a jet, you need quite a bit more than $28M for that.

Citrus Vision = ~$2M

Tom_Spangler (Forum Supporter) said:

preach (fs) said:

Mr_Asa said:

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

Enough land for me to not ever see anyone that lived next to me.

Similarly, my thought was a race track and a house on the same property.

No house, but with $21M left over, I imagine you could remedy that quite nicely:

Woah!  Since when is Grattan for sale? 

On the original topic, I can certainly think of worse ways to spend $7mil than owning Grattan.  I'd turn the remaining $21mil into a bunch of left over NASCAR road course cars, a big pile of spares and a giant stack of Hoosiers.  Of course, you all would be invited.

When Bentley makes the same offer (build you anything you want for a few million), i'll have this please:

Driven5 said:

codrus (Forum Supporter) said:

bobzilla said:

i Was thinking more like a private island and airplane

It doesn't buy you a jet, you need quite a bit more than $28M for that.

Citrus Vision = ~$2M

As with a boat and a race car, the purchase price is only a small percentage of the total cost. :).  Insurance, hangar, maintenance, fuel, pilot's salary (or a huge amount of training if you're going to try to learn to fly it yourself), they add up quickly.

It will also buy you a Challenge car every year until 16,021.

You're welcome.

kazoospec said:

Woah!  Since when is Grattan for sale? 

On the original topic, I can certainly think of worse ways to spend $7mil than owning Grattan.  I'd turn the remaining $21mil into a bunch of left over NASCAR road course cars, a big pile of spares and a giant stack of Hoosiers.  Of course, you all would be invited.

I've seen that banner on their site for a while now, at least going back to last year.

$28 million buys me retirement.   

$28,000,000 doesn't go far.  I mean a cabin in the mountains in Colorado might be close to double that amount.  Inflation. 

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/155-200-Sabin-Dr-Aspen-CO-81612/2072928179_zpid/?

jharry3 said:

$28 million buys me retirement.   

Whoo, ain't that the truth! (as I post from work )