Petrol Headonism, EuroMillions win options
Discussion
I was idly thinking, if you won the EuroMillions most of us on here would expand our car collection quite significantly.
But the rub comes in how to enjoy it.
Money has an odd affect of friendships and I can imagine its awkward to suddenly turn up at your local cars and coffee with an F40 and still have the same relationship with your old mates.
So I thought about ways to properly enjoy cars, and your money, but still share your good fortune with your petrol head mates. Not much point in doing supercars as all you can do it pootle about attracting attention, not really my idea of fun, and hard to share the experience with friends and have a good time.
My solution is to have a wood on my private property, carve out a rally course, add to this a collection of awesome rally cars, probably perfect replicas as I'd want to have some fun with them, and invite my mates over, a weekend of spannering, rally driving, more spannering and cleaning followed by an evening of BBQ & Beers sounds like my idea of heaven. Rally party weekends at the wood!
My rally garage would contain:
Never rallied before, here, try this!
Got to grips with the Corsa? Lets play RWD.
Now for some real fun.
Drive an Icon.
Really trusted and got properly good? Lets see how little you know!
A lot of the fun would be learning together, get a professional in for some tuition. It may turn out that I have all the gear and no idea and a mate can run rings around me as a driver. But that way there's no awkwardness about money, just fun.
So what would your petrol headonist playground look like, and how would you enjoy it with your mates?
But the rub comes in how to enjoy it.
Money has an odd affect of friendships and I can imagine its awkward to suddenly turn up at your local cars and coffee with an F40 and still have the same relationship with your old mates.
So I thought about ways to properly enjoy cars, and your money, but still share your good fortune with your petrol head mates. Not much point in doing supercars as all you can do it pootle about attracting attention, not really my idea of fun, and hard to share the experience with friends and have a good time.
My solution is to have a wood on my private property, carve out a rally course, add to this a collection of awesome rally cars, probably perfect replicas as I'd want to have some fun with them, and invite my mates over, a weekend of spannering, rally driving, more spannering and cleaning followed by an evening of BBQ & Beers sounds like my idea of heaven. Rally party weekends at the wood!
My rally garage would contain:
Never rallied before, here, try this!
Got to grips with the Corsa? Lets play RWD.
Now for some real fun.
Drive an Icon.
Really trusted and got properly good? Lets see how little you know!
A lot of the fun would be learning together, get a professional in for some tuition. It may turn out that I have all the gear and no idea and a mate can run rings around me as a driver. But that way there's no awkwardness about money, just fun.
So what would your petrol headonist playground look like, and how would you enjoy it with your mates?
Edited by Stick Legs on Thursday 14th August 14:00
The (sad) reality is that even doing the above while a very nice gesture will still seem to some/many as rubbing their noses in it and a "look at what I have now" move. I know a couple of lotto winners (not Euros I hasten to add, but early winners when the regular lottery held decent sums) and theyve all moved on and have very different social circles now, even though they didnt necessarily want to.
Similarly a good friend of mine who I grew up with used to work for (7yrs ish) the HNW advice and investment team that Camelot used to employ and assign to each new millionaire winner to help them navigate the new found riches and he has seen the same as my experience but on a much greater scale over that period.
Its a nice idea and one I would like to think I would do similar but I think it would fail utlimately.
Similarly a good friend of mine who I grew up with used to work for (7yrs ish) the HNW advice and investment team that Camelot used to employ and assign to each new millionaire winner to help them navigate the new found riches and he has seen the same as my experience but on a much greater scale over that period.
Its a nice idea and one I would like to think I would do similar but I think it would fail utlimately.
that was my first thought. Mates, beers, race track in garden crashing broken cars! I'd buy a warehouse, stuff it with tools and lifts and just enjoy fixing/modifying stuff.
Build a nice lounge in there, good coffee machine and maybe a few squirty Japanese bogs for a laugh
If friends want to pop over and do any work go for it.
I'll be in the corner trying not to blind myself with a welder.
Build a nice lounge in there, good coffee machine and maybe a few squirty Japanese bogs for a laugh
If friends want to pop over and do any work go for it.
I'll be in the corner trying not to blind myself with a welder.
It'd have to be one of those drivers clubs exclusive racetrack resorts, if money would stretch. Garage full of moderately priced sportscars, take your pick out for a spin.
Alternatively, hire a racetrack like donington for the day, turn up with a car transporter full of Caterham or something.
Alternatively, hire a racetrack like donington for the day, turn up with a car transporter full of Caterham or something.
Alorotom said:
The (sad) reality is that even doing the above while a very nice gesture will still seem to some/many as rubbing their noses in it and a "look at what I have now" move. I know a couple of lotto winners (not Euros I hasten to add, but early winners when the regular lottery held decent sums) and theyve all moved on and have very different social circles now, even though they didnt necessarily want to.
Similarly a good friend of mine who I grew up with used to work for (7yrs ish) the HNW advice and investment team that Camelot used to employ and assign to each new millionaire winner to help them navigate the new found riches and he has seen the same as my experience but on a much greater scale over that period.
Its a nice idea and one I would like to think I would do similar but I think it would fail utlimately.
This is something that's always been very apparent to me if you did win big. Going from a normal working person to overnight having £200m in the bank, you are without doubt going to end up spending your time with people you don't even know yet.....how can you not? All your mates are normal with jobs and commitments, and suddenly you are carefree and can go wherever you want and do whatever you want at any moment. It does sometimes make you wonder if a huge win would actually be that great, because your life as you know it would just not exist after a bit of time. Similarly a good friend of mine who I grew up with used to work for (7yrs ish) the HNW advice and investment team that Camelot used to employ and assign to each new millionaire winner to help them navigate the new found riches and he has seen the same as my experience but on a much greater scale over that period.
Its a nice idea and one I would like to think I would do similar but I think it would fail utlimately.
RandomCarChat said:
I'd buy a warehouse, stuff it with tools and lifts and just enjoy fixing/modifying stuff.
Build a nice lounge in there, good coffee machine and maybe a few squirty Japanese bogs for a laugh
If friends want to pop over and do any work go for it.
I'll be in the corner trying not to blind myself with a welder.
That... actually sounds really fun. No time pressure, no, "I'd love to do this but if it goes wrong I'm without my car," that comes with a lot of DIY maintenance for the average person. Half man cave, half lifts/tools etc and just fBuild a nice lounge in there, good coffee machine and maybe a few squirty Japanese bogs for a laugh
If friends want to pop over and do any work go for it.
I'll be in the corner trying not to blind myself with a welder.
k about all day long. Awesome.UTH said:
It does sometimes make you wonder if a huge win would actually be that great, because your life as you know it would just not exist after a bit of time.
Depends on how happy you are with your life.....If you like it, you can maintain it. With £200m, you don't have to do or change anything.As mentioned above, true friends will be happy for you and if you're a true friend to them, you'll not change.
Unfortunately, money breeds a lot of jealousy - more so than anything when that money is won, rather than earned. Some people think they deserve a piece of it for being your friend, payment for being loyal to you/helping you/supporting you/etc......completely incorrect of course.
I had a colleague who's friend won the lottery. Said friend took them on a luxury holiday every year - they cruised the Caribbean one year, went to the USA another year, the Maldives the next. Group of about 6 of them.
Their friendship survived because it was strong in the first place and all of the friends were happy for the one that won.
Alorotom said:
The (sad) reality is that even doing the above while a very nice gesture will still seem to some/many as rubbing their noses in it and a "look at what I have now" move. I know a couple of lotto winners (not Euros I hasten to add, but early winners when the regular lottery held decent sums) and theyve all moved on and have very different social circles now, even though they didnt necessarily want to.
Similarly a good friend of mine who I grew up with used to work for (7yrs ish) the HNW advice and investment team that Camelot used to employ and assign to each new millionaire winner to help them navigate the new found riches and he has seen the same as my experience but on a much greater scale over that period.
Its a nice idea and one I would like to think I would do similar but I think it would fail utlimately.
I concur. On a MASSIVELY smaller scale (ie we've not won the lotto, partly because we don't do it Similarly a good friend of mine who I grew up with used to work for (7yrs ish) the HNW advice and investment team that Camelot used to employ and assign to each new millionaire winner to help them navigate the new found riches and he has seen the same as my experience but on a much greater scale over that period.
Its a nice idea and one I would like to think I would do similar but I think it would fail utlimately.
) but we have taken early retirement and are enjoying several holidays, there are a few friends where there are 'some whispers' (so to speak). I really can't imagine how some people would get if you really 'struck gold'... UTH said:
Alorotom said:
The (sad) reality is that even doing the above while a very nice gesture will still seem to some/many as rubbing their noses in it and a "look at what I have now" move. I know a couple of lotto winners (not Euros I hasten to add, but early winners when the regular lottery held decent sums) and theyve all moved on and have very different social circles now, even though they didnt necessarily want to.
Similarly a good friend of mine who I grew up with used to work for (7yrs ish) the HNW advice and investment team that Camelot used to employ and assign to each new millionaire winner to help them navigate the new found riches and he has seen the same as my experience but on a much greater scale over that period.
Its a nice idea and one I would like to think I would do similar but I think it would fail utlimately.
This is something that's always been very apparent to me if you did win big. Going from a normal working person to overnight having £200m in the bank, you are without doubt going to end up spending your time with people you don't even know yet.....how can you not? All your mates are normal with jobs and commitments, and suddenly you are carefree and can go wherever you want and do whatever you want at any moment. It does sometimes make you wonder if a huge win would actually be that great, because your life as you know it would just not exist after a bit of time. Similarly a good friend of mine who I grew up with used to work for (7yrs ish) the HNW advice and investment team that Camelot used to employ and assign to each new millionaire winner to help them navigate the new found riches and he has seen the same as my experience but on a much greater scale over that period.
Its a nice idea and one I would like to think I would do similar but I think it would fail utlimately.
Your friends who you thought would be OK, wont be. And even those who are how do you decide who gets £500k and who gets £5M without infighting and resentment and jealousy kicking in!
The new people you meet will have different opinions on you because you have money.
Your enemies will come out of the woodwork! (A man with no enemies is no man at all!
) Imagine if the winner of £201M tomorrow is a single normal-ish guy in his 30s. The gold diggers will be queued across the land! Hoping he will get them pregnant!
And it WILL change you. As before you have a job and bills and you manage your life accordingly. Overnight, there's literally NOTHING you cant have! That will f
k with your head not just at first, but forever. And at 3% (conservatively) that's an extra £6m a year you cant spend fast enough.See also the syndicates that make the news where "dear old Angela" didn't pay the week they won and feels they owe her the share and then she's in the press slagging them all off!
I have bought tickets for tomorrow obviously. I'm not turning it down (I actually played the $480M Powerball draw a while back on a visit to the States
)But I'm also in with a group of friends on a syndicate. And whilst it would be hard to keep a win quiet if several of us quit our jobs. Winning a smaller slice AND having friends in the same boat actually appeals to me more than trying to work out what the f
k to do with £200M. Since we can all continue to be freinds, we can all pay our own way. And we have people to bounce ideas off and who will be honest as they ahve no ulterior motive.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff