Let's say you have 100k at your disposal and your mission is to spend it all on motorized toys. You already have your daily drivers so these will be just fun/wish list vehicles. Anything motorized cars, motorcycles, airplanes etc.

 

I'd need to take $25,000 and build a three car garage. With the remaining $75,000 I'd fill the garage with:

1952 MG-TD, British Racing Green, Right Hand Drive (you knew that I'd pick this).
1956 Porsche 356 Speedster
1960s Austin Healy 3000

If there was any money left, I'd buy an original Honda Civic (the tiny one) or a 1966 Corvair Monza Spyder (these two just for the fun of it).

 

Rob,

Can that be done where you live? We got several bids for our 17' X 30' two plus car garage in 2003 and our lowest bid was several thousand dollars above your $25K

Have you relocated from NJ to NV without telling anyone?

 

I am going to have to do a little research first before answering this question. As I do not think what first popped into my head can be had for $100K.

Stay tuned for my response.

 

Matt

Actually, you're right. I wasn't thinking. We've toyed with the idea of adding another garage bay to the two we already have and extending the greatroom which is above it. That alone would cost us over $25,000.

Still, I think it'd be ok with Robb if we were to dream a little bit.

 

You have to spend the entire 100K on motorized TOYS. No garages, or real estate or hangers etc. just motorized vehicles, the entire 100K.

 

In my dream world Rob we all have GIGANTIC 20+ car garages already we just have to put 100K worth of machinery in them.

 

Happy to know that I did not pay too much. Although, I feel very comfortable that members in other parts of the country are thinking that the contractor must have held a gun to my head to agree to that price.

The good news is even though I was sceptical of his claim that he guaranteed it not to freeze he was right. I purposely keep a bottle of water on the work bench and even though we have had single digit temps and days where it has not beyond 32* for several days. There has never been ice in that bottle of Deer Park water. So, at least my "baby" is warm at night.

 

In that case I'll stick to my first three choices

1952 MG-TD
1956 Porsche 356C Speedster
1960s Austin Healy 3000

And I'll certainly take the original Honda Civic and the 1966 Corvair Monza Spyder just for the fun of it.

If I had any money left I'd buy a 1969 Triumph Bonneville motorcycle. The Honda 750 4's were better bikes, but I always wanted a classic Triumph.

That'd probably take the whole wad. $100,000 just doesn't go as far as it used to.

 

In 1976 I had house mate that rebuilt a 1969 Triumph Bonneville motorcycle from the chassis up. It was beatifully restored including the Lucas electrics. There was only one major oversight. The Bonneville had a dry oil sump and unfortuantly when Steve hooked the oil lines up from the sump to the engine he hooked them up backwards. He fired it up, and made it to the end of the drive way before all of the oil was sucked out of the engine and into the dry sump.