Shiny Happy Person Hat Wins Lotto and Buys Shiny Happy Person Hat Car

Sorry for the confusion. I always assumed that "shinny happy person" meant either gluteus maximus or anal orifice. So, I was trying to say "gluteus maximus fashionable headgear". Also, sorry for the confusion in my attempt at irony.

Anyway, I was actually happy to see the altenative here. Usually a big time lotto winner will want for something along the lines of whatever those abominations that Will.I.Am allegedly creates. This guy wants a used everyman's supercar (if you could call a car that doesn't need Rolexesque maintenance, doesn't spontaneously catch fire, or has a functioning climate system a supercar).

pres589 wrote: I wouldn't say in a press conference what I'd do with the money, and I'd hope to be smart enough not to blow it all in rapid fashion like what usually happens to people that do win a serious amount of money like this, but I can't say he's doing it wrong.

First, I'd focus my attention on avoiding any kind of press conference.

Woody wrote:

pres589 wrote: I wouldn't say in a press conference what I'd do with the money, and I'd hope to be smart enough not to blow it all in rapid fashion like what usually happens to people that do win a serious amount of money like this, but I can't say he's doing it wrong.

First, I'd focus my attention on avoiding any kind of press conference.

they make you collect the prize in person... and they make sure there are newspaper and tv people there to take a picture of you with your big cardboard check when you do collect it.. that's why you play up the white trash aspect of it, that way the public doesn't expect too much of you and everyone can just laugh at the idiot that just stumbled into enough money to buy a whole series of trailer parks and monster trucks...

then you do cool stuff, like that one lotto winner that used his money to buy into a NASCAR team- which, i guess, plays into the "trailer park" theme according to the general public...

One NY winner, they require you show up also; paid someone to stand up front while he was dressed in a black suit, dark glasses and pretended to be a lawyer standing in the back.

If I won the lottery I would eventually get a 1970 340 Cuda in orange (whatever they called it)

Some incarnation of the 911 as a daily

LP400S Countach for the fantasy factor

500 Abarth in case I keep teaching (it's easy to park)

Singer 911

Lexus LS600h for when I need to be civilized

914Driver wrote: One NY winner, they require you show up also; paid someone to stand up front while he was dressed in a black suit, dark glasses and pretended to be a lawyer standing in the back.

I probably do something similar: collect it dressed in a non-descript black suite and sunglasses... maybe even a wig. Basically be as forgettable looking as possible. While part of me wants to think, "who really remembers lottery winners?" I'm sure there are leachy-types that keep track of them and attempt to prey on them.

Call up Caterham USA and have them pick me up at the airport.

Actually, Id just pick up the cleanest example of all the 80s/90s/00s cars Ive always wanted but never bought...AE86,190E Cosworth, IS300, 914/6, G35 Coupe, G8, Fiero, MR2 etc etc etc...

But I dont hate on the guy for the NSX...I have always thought they were pretty great cars. Better than a zillion dollar Bugatti and bankrupcy 3 years later...

Ian F wrote: Hmm... so if you won the lottery, what would be the FIRST car you'd buy?

I would more than likely go to three local dealers (Ford, Chevy, Dodge) and buy a Mustang, Camaro and Challenger. The top performance models that they could order for each. I don't know why I just know I would do that.

You would not be a self-indulgent wiener, sir. You'd be a connoisseur.

RossD wrote: Call up Caterham USA and have them pick me up at the airport.

I agree with you! However I'd also go with the NSX for my DD. I have a friend who owns one and goes almost anywhere without anyone even noticing anything but the Honda logo. Someone recently asked him if it was CRX with a kit car body!

Yep. If it had been on my mind for a while, I'd run out and grab it while I let the reality of being a millionaire sink in. Why not?

I'd be building a road course in a cornfield. MOAR better cars later, track first.......

spitfirebill wrote: If I won the lottery I would eventually get a 1970 340 Cuda in orange (whatever they called it)

I think they called it "Vitamin C Orange" on the 'Cuda and "Hemi Orange" on the Challenger.

How big of a lotto? The $340M? I'd buy ALL THE CARS. $1M, the wife a nicer new car and a Z06 for me...... with lots of HoHo's.

In reply to Bobzilla:

Hell, with just a mil I'd use it all as a down payment for a good sized chunk of farm ground.....sure, it'd take me 30 or so years to pay it off, but it'd be worth it.

id pay off my wifes college loans in nickles, dimes, and pennies first. unrolled, and mixed in the back of a large U-Haul truck parked in front of the loan officers front door with the keys thrown on the neighbors roof. those bastards have been nickel and diming us since her graduation.

after paying off the house, and getting completely out of debt everywhere, id slam the rest into a good portfolio so we can retire comfortably when our daughter is married. id also go back to teaching woodworking full time.

first car purchase would be a new focus st2. and a early mode xb for the wife.

id also buyt the lot across the road from my house at some point for a new shop.

yup. im a cheap, practical person.

Michael