Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Well I'm a' packin up my game and I'm a head out west Where real women come equipped wit' scripts and fake breasts Find a nest in the hills chill like flynt Buy an old drop-top find a spot to pimp Then I'm a' Kid Rock it up and down ya' block With a bottle of scotch and watch lots a crotch Buy a yacht with a flag that say's "Chillin' the most" Then rock that bitch up and down the coast
you have failed at life for quoting kid rock
Me with billions of dollars is an interesting thought. I think I would basically become my own version of the most interesting man in the world. The first five things that come to mind are:
Learn everything from the best of the best. Since we're talking about this in an automotive forum, learning to weld, form metal, drive, tune engines, adjust suspension, use CAD and more would be on the list. But also cooking, spear fishing, sailing, surfing and maybe even some academic things. I am a learner and I would be constantly learning given virtually unlimited resources.
Experience every motorsport at the highest level possible. With my friends. Dakar, Pike's Peak, WRC, F1, LeMans, historics... you name it. Maybe I can't ever be competitive on, say, a MotoGP grid, but maybe I can finagle my way onto a competitive machine and see what I can do or be a real contributing member of a top-level team on the road for a season.
Buy a warehouse in the Mission District of LA. Fill it with whatever I want. Stupid swaps, scratch built projects, sleepers... I want a car for every occasion that is an expression of who I am. And tools. LOTS of tools.
Live in a small apartment above said warehouse. Minimalist bedroom, office and kitchen so that it would be as easy to maintain as possible.
Travel. Travel. Travel.
In reply to patgizz: you sir, May suck my dip stick.
in no particular order...
stay working. (maybe only part time, like 25-30 hrs a week)
top off my kid's college fund and set aside some extra in case of emergency.
find a really nice daily driver that I can hang on to for more than a year and a half.
buy a chunk of land and build a house
buy every $500 beater I see on CL and turn them into field cars.. sorta like Dave's Farm or where ever that place is.
Heh. Me with billions?
Pay off the fambly's debts.
Set my kid up with college.
Buy Road Atlanta.
Put a HUGE warehouse on a corner of the RA property.
Fill said warehouse with every kind of fast machine I can think of.
Run them till they are worn slap out.
Set up a trust fund to keep RA open in perpetuity. Take THAT, real estate developers!
Buy ~15,000 acres in the mountains, maybe more.
Ride dirt bikes on said mountains till they too are slap worn out.
Set up a trust to keep that open for OHV in perpetuity. Take THAT, Sierra Club!
Of course all my GRM friends have a standing invite. I can probably even afford the beer.
Oh, and of course there's the house on top of a ridge somewhere in the Appalachians where I can see four states from the porch. Not a big in your face palace, 2500 square feet will be plenty.
Curmudgeon wrote: Buy Road Atlanta. Put a HUGE warehouse on a corner of the RA property. Fill said warehouse with every kind of fast machine I can think of. Run them till they are worn slap out. Set up a trust fund to keep RA open in perpetuity. Take THAT, real estate developers!
My plan to buy & demolish the existing devs didn't appeal to you? You are a kinder man than I, sir. I would let some of my "organic food" friends rebuild the chicken farm north of T7, tho. Hazing new corner workers, etc.
Donate most all of it to charity and church. Pay every member of my families debts off extending to 2nd cousins. The debt free can have cash. Buy myself two trucks and two cars. One old one new of each. Then put a little up to retire on and keep working like normal.
I just don't believe any one person needs that much power or money. I try to peer into my heart and I don't think I could handle it. Giving it away would probably be the only way to save myself from total corruption. I like working and earning what I have.
Crazy money begets crazy.
This weekend we were on the boat in New Hampshire and went past a house that is for sale for ten million. Sure, it's beautiful, but I would feel ridiculous living there. I would somehow be uncomfortable in the midst of luxury.
I might buy one of those tiny giraffes, though. That's just cool.
Woody wrote: I might buy one of those tiny giraffes, though. That's just cool.
Sorry. You'll have to settle for dressing your dog as a giraffe
friedgreencorrado wrote:Curmudgeon wrote: Buy Road Atlanta. Put a HUGE warehouse on a corner of the RA property. Fill said warehouse with every kind of fast machine I can think of. Run them till they are worn slap out. Set up a trust fund to keep RA open in perpetuity. Take THAT, real estate developers!My plan to buy & demolish the existing devs didn't appeal to you? You are a kinder man than I, sir. I would let some of my "organic food" friends rebuild the chicken farm north of T7, tho. Hazing new corner workers, etc.
Naw. I'd rather leave the developments there and put up big ol' signs: 'WE WERE HERE FIRST SO KISS OUR COLLECTIVE ASS. IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT THEN YOU MOVE!'
Curmudgeon wrote:friedgreencorrado wrote:Naw. I'd rather leave the developments there and put up big ol' signs: 'WE WERE HERE FIRST SO KISS OUR COLLECTIVE ASS. IF YOU DON"T LIKE IT THEN YOU MOVE!' as I scream down the essess and up the back straight in a open header 3 (or 4) rotor powered racecarCurmudgeon wrote: Buy Road Atlanta. Put a HUGE warehouse on a corner of the RA property. Fill said warehouse with every kind of fast machine I can think of. Run them till they are worn slap out. Set up a trust fund to keep RA open in perpetuity. Take THAT, real estate developers!My plan to buy & demolish the existing devs didn't appeal to you? You are a kinder man than I, sir. I would let some of my "organic food" friends rebuild the chicken farm north of T7, tho. Hazing new corner workers, etc.
FTFY 
Wally wrote:AngryCorvair wrote: i'd hire wally as my personal jester. he makes me LOL.I can be had fairly inexpensively. You may only need to be a hundred-millionaire
you haven't seen the costume yet...
Woody wrote: Crazy money begets crazy.
Actually, that's not even beautiful. It's just ostentatious.
I think this video might be highly relevant here 
To see how the .00001% lives, we met up with infamous Russian oligarch interveiw on vice
Woody wrote: Crazy money begets crazy.
This is that massive house on Governors Island, correct? Do you live on the lake? My family has a house near Black Cat island, small cottage that is very different than the house above.
I retract me earlier statement.
Become full-time guitar player.
Other stuff.
Woody wrote: Crazy money begets crazy.
Shame they could not afford a deep water lot.........
ProDarwin wrote: 1. Secure & invest 2. Quit job 3. Move somewhere very walkable/bikeable. Do not want to NEED a car. 4. Take investment earnings above inflation (minus my rather large salary) and do charity work. Build a science museum, open up maker-space for high school kids, etc. 5. Build a sprinter RV, spend a couple of years working on that piece of crap, unload it on some hippie who thinks it's the new Microbus, then go get something reliable and travel the world..
FTFY.
That house is just overblown. There's no need for something that big except to wag the financial schlong around.
Y'all could come over to the house and I will pull you around on my new ski boat.
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