Folks Of Interest It probably will never happen but.......

OK...You just won the lottery and suddenly your whole life is going to change. You can live anywhere you want in any house you want and pretty much do all of the things you always dreamed of. What if anything would you change relative to your hot rod/custom car part of your life????

 

First thing,take care of my kids needs.Then take several deep breaths and more thought.

 

Quit job. Investigate where to live. Build/ buy home & shop. Finish current and on deck projects at a new standard.

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"What if anything would you change relative to your hot rod/custom car part of your life????"

Nothing. I've enjoyed my life, all 72 years of it, so far and the journey getting to where I am now. Wonderful, supportive wife of 52-years, great kids, grandchildren and a great-grand son, nice shop, house & property, cars, ect. I statrted out "lucky" in life by being born in the USA and a lot of hard work got me everything I really want or need.

Sure, the lottery win would enable me to get more "things" and I'm certainly not rich in money, but I have pretty much everything I would want out of life. I guess I AM rich afterall.!

 

Slow tech day on the HAMB?

 

Instead of questioning someone else why not start a tech thread?HRP

 

'36 3W Ford packed full of horsepowers. And I'd have to build a garage (I'm over having a full shop) on my acreage in Michigan's UP to house my car and equipment.

 

Yep...,

But to answer the question it depends on the size of the lottery.
Almost 2 years ago I was entered in a lottery, against my will I might add. While walking my dog I was run over by a bicyclist. Laugh if you want to but one broken hip, a lawyer, a private investigator and a whole lot of physical therapy later...,

...now I actually have a decent saving account and the money to put together the hot rod I've wanted since jr high.
I do not recommend this as a way to raise capital, but....,
-Dave

 

I guess most of us have day dreamed about unlimited funds at one time or another and the is no doubt in my mind that it would help alleviate most financial problems and insure a more comfortable life but at what cost?

I know a lot of people who for one reason or another have had problem,both financial & health and if I were to have a huge windfall I would like to be able to start a foundation and become a philanthropists, that said my family would be taken care of and I would probably buy a few more cars for myself.

As it stands now I do donate money to the local charities & I help my family if they have a problem and every now and then I buy me a toy so I am happy and content with my life.

I don't foresee it happening to me mainly because I don't buy lottery tickets. HRP

 

First,DONT TELL ANYONE

 

most people, it has been often reported, are back to their old depressed life within just a few years, when the lottery money is gone.

Money is nothing more than a tool. My savings are gone, but I get out with the hotrod every day/eve, meeting new people, etc.



Last night/eve was just like summer here,>>

.......and rolling along, feeling and hearing the Olds Rocket ...pure heaven to me. I always said that I'd never buy lottery tickets unless I really needed it. I still don't, but I now no longer worry about anything, and money to pay bills.... always,... now, ...shows up.

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I actually like my job and would be bored without somewhere to go everyday so Id stay here, put up most of it for my little girl, then finish my race car and maybe buy a cool f100 to tow it with. Wife would want the ranchero Ive been promising her so wed get that, otherwise I dont see myself going crazy with it. Money dont do much in the way of happiness

 

Not for me, but if the Good Lord above me thought that was the plan then my two ambitions would be first to buy some acreage near town and build two apartment complexes for our towns homeless and low income families . Second buy a farm further out of town and build a shop to build hot rods for charities. I figure the auction monies can go to help the previous said people and the farm can produce foods the less fortunate and local food banks. That's the dream.

 

I am retired, have been for 17 years. Worked from the time I was fourteen. I like where I live, except for the dead of Winter. I don't need anything but good health, so I would most likely give most of it away to people truly in need. Not freeloaders, but good working people who are really trying to make life better. Maybe buy myself a Pines winterfront for my Deuce. I does not matter, I don't buy lottery tickets.

 

I would want my and my wife's health back to what it was 53 years ago when we got married, they could keep any money but give us our health back.

 

I took the original post to mean: What would you do hot rod wise. Would you buy and build your dream car, redo your old favorite, hire a pro, buy all the sitting and rotting cars?

 

I recently discovered I'm not very good at spending money, so I think I would just go back to buying crappy cars and getting them going for as little money as possible.

Being a cheapskate, is probably why I have all the money I need to build any car I want.

 

That makes you a real old school hot rodder in my book . You can do your own work and make things from scratch and you enjoy the process.

 

40 years ago, that would have funded my dream of being a USAC/WoO sprint car racer. Nowadays, I'm not too certain I would change much, having learned to be pretty frugal (cheapskate) when it comes to my automotive hobby. I like old stuff, and repairing with my old fashioned ways. I could use a boring bar, and connecting rod reconditioning equipment to go with my valve service stuff. My barnyard bowsers would be completely home built then. Oh yeah! A distributor machine! Gotta have that. Maybe a cheap flow bench also, and then I would want a....
You know, the wife would have her own list also.....
But, it is fun to dream a little

 

If I won a huge lotto I would look for a gigantic piece of property somewhere here in NorCal off of the 99 or 5 freeway and build a nice drag strip to replace the strips we've lost over the years. Not a showplace but a truly racer-friendly facility, you know, real restrooms, paved pits, shade. The property would have to be big enough to prevent the encroachment of (so called) civilization so we can run open headers and nitro whenever we want. I'd get some kind of trust set up to fund it after I'm gone.
Of course, each kid would get 500K and no more until I'm gone. The old, 'here's your chance, make the most of it' scenario. The wife, well she gets whatever she wants, but I know she would be behind the drag strip 100%.

 

I would send all my cars to a shop to be repaired or finished to my specs, buy a pro touring style late 50s something for a daily driver the rest of my effort would go into rebuilding my life. When that is done, then i would play.

 

First I would need enough work space and storage. Secondly I would finish my current project then I want to do a 40s-50s style hot rod of a 34 Ford three window (50's flathead with all the goodies, wide 5 wheels, Lincoln dashboard etc...) and I want to build my literal dream car Ford model A, with a LeMans transaxle, flathead V-12 with an MG crank shaft driven supercharger

 

Do you mean after I bought one of every model of 427 equipped FoMoCo cars ever made?


Bones

 

Buy one of the old car junkyards that we keep hearing about closing, and start building shit with what’s in there.

 

1. QUIT JOB
2. Toss cell phone
3. Buy crooked house in Amster, amster, damn, damn, damn on a canal...with a nice wooden Chris Craft tied up.
4. Go on a world wide tour, helping dudes and dudettes on here finish their cars, one at a time.
5. Play global "hide and go seek" with my wife. She moves somewhere and I have to go find her. She always asks me how she will know if I'm looking for her or not. "That's part of the game" I tell her.

 

money is nothing but an amplifier. if someone is goofy, they get goofier, if someone is an asshole, they become a bigger asshole, generous people, donate more, hard workers work harder, lazy becomes even lazier. i would bet if you build hot rods, you would just build more hot rods. @The37Kid will just have more projects etc.....

 

First thing I'd do is retain a good lawyer, have him buy the McMansion behind me, and the vacant lot next to it. Donate said McMansion to the local Fire Dept. as a training site, build a really nice two floor car barn on the old foundation. Finish our house, travel, buy a few cars I really like, find and hire someone that could explain how electricity works, wire my own car. Have enough left over to leave to the family. Bob

 

It all depends on how much was in the pot. A million after Trump gets through with you ain't much these days. Lets say it is multi millions. I'm 80 almost so traveling a lot is not in the cards that much.
I have (2) daughters, one 58 and one 48. I'd make sure they were set up for life, never having anything to worry about. The oldest one has a boy 25, more worthless than anyone can imagine. He gets nota, nothing, not even as much as a node. His sister is a Marine down in Camp La June (sp?) and would also be taken care of for her life.
I'd move from here (south of seattle by 20 miles it really has become the septic tank of the northwest).
Get my bride what ever she desires. I hear it is ideal in SW Oregon near Brookings so I'd look there. Buy a place with around 8k sq. feet or build. Have a huge building erected or buy with one on the property.
Now its my time. Go on a car shopping spree. B & J, Mecum etc. Some targets: Multi years of Vipers, 57 Chev 210 hard top, 53 Chev hard top just to replace mine from the past. Take my 34 in to a good shop and get the little things done to it. Continue shopping and buying and then planning Salmon fishing trips to Alaska in between shopping.

 

1. Become anonymous
2. Stay anonymous.

 

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