One single Powerball jackpot winning ticket sold worth $456M

@narfcake Just looking through the rules for the 24 Hours races. Button Willow would be a conceivable distance for me to field a car. But I’d likely have $5K into safety equipment and another $2K in travel and transport. A bit heavy for a lark. I guess I’ll have to wait until I’m the guy holding the winning Powerball ticket.

@ruouttaurmind Yeah, the prep and logistics definitely add into it, but it’s still the cheapest route to racing.

Also, who doesn’t love absurdities like this?
/image Lemons Reliant K-it-forward

/image Lemons Nyan Cat

/image ToyoHog

/image Trippy Tippy Hippy van

/image Speedycop Cessna

To elaborate on the K-it-FWD …

During the course of the 2013 season, the 1986 Plymouth Reliant-K station wagon race-prepped (if that’s the word) by NSF Racing in Florida sort of, but mostly not really, competed in 14 races, traveled through 43 U.S. states and one Canadian province, passed through the hands of nine teams comprised of a total of more than 100 drivers and crew members, was towed 14,012 miles, highway-driven for another 12,194 miles, and raced for 4678 miles. It killed seven engines, stranded drivers in the Mojave Desert in 122°F heat and in eastern Wyoming at -21°F. It also created a close-knit group of friends around the continent, a group who will always see the memories of this profoundly bad car as the impossible-to-remove weatherstrip adhesive that keeps them stuck together for life. It was a long and twisted road for this car and its enablers.

https://blog.caranddriver.com/the-tale-of-the-k-it-fwd-plymouth-reliant-part-1/
http://blog.caranddriver.com/the-tale-of-the-k-it-fwd-plymouth-reliant-part-2/
https://blog.caranddriver.com/the-tale-of-the-k-it-fwd-plymouth-reliant-part-3/

@narfcake

Next stop: Cannonball Run?

@therealjrn I’d do plenty for charity. Sadly, that kind of cash won’t go far enough to make a difference in the world. It would, however, make a world of difference in the lives of many individuals.

@ruouttaurmind Properly invested, I can’t imagine needing more than 20 million to be all set for life, and the lives of my child and grandchildren.

That would leave a lot for charity.

But as you say, I would be more of a “where the rubber meets the road” kind of donor.

@ruouttaurmind @therealjrn Not me.
I’d just get it in $100 bills & roll around in it. Buck naked.

@therealjrn

@daveinwarsh That’s 2,740,000 bills. A standard banking bundle is 100 notes. You’ll have 27,400 bundles of $100 bills. That’s roughly 4.5 palettes.

@f00l - George Best, a famous British soccer player who made a fortune playing for the Manchester United football club in the '60s, was once questioned what had happened to all the money he had made and replied: “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

@RiotDemon FTW!!! HOOKERS AND COCAINE!!!

@RiotDemon @therealjrn His mama must be so proud.

@RiotDemon Banks … interest? Ha! I think my bank’s savings account offers all of 0.015%.

@RiotDemon I love Toronados. @Narfcake Using your example of 0.015% interest, $456,000,000.00 would earn $684,000.00 a year.

@RiotDemon The first front wheel drive car produced in the US, and made infamous by George Romero and Stephen King.

@narfcake My Wells Fargo account pays .05%. I guess in the long term, that’s $1,370,000 per year. I could live on that. Not luxuriously, but quite comfortably.

@therealjrn

@ruouttaurmind Love it! The early ones rocked, but I liked the later models too, unlike these guys.

@narfcake @ruouttaurmind over a million a year and not live luxurious? I’d live luxurious if I made 20k extra a year.

@RiotDemon After taxes it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of $600K. Very comfortable, but not Robin Leach Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous kind of luxury.

@RiotDemon @ruouttaurmind I could scrape by on half that.

@RiotDemon Buy the bank?

@therealjrn anything extra would feel luxurious. It would be nice to not have to put things like car repairs on credit cards. Or to actually take a vacation. I haven’t left the state in almost five years.

@RiotDemon You don’t need to leave. Nothing but trouble out there.

@therealjrn finally got around to watching the jay Leno video. The one thing that bothered me, that they touched on at the end of the video was that he changed it to rear wheel. The car was iconic for being front wheel, so I felt like they butchered it a bit by doing that.

@RiotDemon I agree, but the designer had an interesting perspective: most people identify with the outside appearance of a vehicle, and the interior accouterments, not the mechanical oddities.

As a builder of hot rods, I am often accused of being a butcher, of ruining a car, a valuable piece of history because I’ve modified it from it’s original design. In my eyes, I’m improving the original design, and creating a piece of automotive art. I know from other interviews, and from a brief conversation with him at Barrett Jackson, Jay has a very similar perspective.

I see both sides of this argument.

@RiotDemon I’d go with something practical, like a '67 Shelby 427 Cobra Super Snake. Plenty of room for a bag of groceries.

If it’s raining, maybe stick with a nice '69 Camaro SS.

@sligett Some states won’t let you hide your identity behind a trust.

@msklzannie @sligett Although some lady just won the right to do that in some state that usually won’t allow that. I think I had read that opening a trust or shell company to “win” it means you can hide yourself that way. Something like that anyway.

@Kidsandliz Actually the state she won in allows trusts to claim winnings. Her issue was she’d signed the back of the ticket already with her name and then wanted to claim it in the name of a trust instead.

@Kidsandliz geez, you have all these virtuous ideas! You’re a good-hearted soul, you are.

Me, I was thinking about buying a solid gold toilet.

@Kidsandliz @UncleVinny

/image solid gold toilet

This one is at the Guggenheim.

I think there is one in Japan, and this one in HK:

@f00l @Kidsandliz @UncleVinny What? No Golden Bidet?

@daveinwarsh Umm if I were to buy something golden that would not be it. Maybe the Golden Hind?

@Kidsandliz Nah. Something with an engine or two.
Maybe like the ‘Golden Odyssey’.

ps: I got a Chinese fortune cookie that said it’s my lucky day. I bought a $3 scratch ticket and WON! ($15)…

@daveinwarsh Well that is a start anyway. $12 down and about $64,999,988 to go.

@somf69 I live in Oklahoma which is in the same country as the single ticket sold…

@somf69 @therealjrn I live on the very same planet as the big winner.

@somf69 don’t forget about us when you’re famous!

@daveinwarsh @somf69 @therealjrn And I live in the same universe as the big winner.

@daveinwarsh @Kidsandliz @somf69 @therealjrn

@daveinwarsh @narfcake @somf69 @therealjrn Well I live in the same infinity space. So there!
/image infinity space

@MrMark hope Mrs. Mark isn’t on here

@Kidsandliz She can be one of the two. Plus who knows, perhaps two dudes at the same time is what she would do with her half of the money.

@MrMark two dudes would probably be very cheap, or free. So she will probably have a lot left over.

@caffeine_dude Yeah I sure spent every penny on non-essentials… Lets see that would be things like health insurance (no medicaid expansion), rent… Yup big spender here.

@medz http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019628,00.html

@caffeine_dude interesting stuff. I’ve always said that money doesn’t buy happiness, but it sure makes things easier.

@medz Pretty sure it was a line in a movie that goes something like “Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does buy off unhappiness.” I’ve had plentiful funds, and I’ve struggled paycheck to paycheck, and I can say first hand, there is wisdom in that line. It’s definitely more fun to have than to have not.