And so today I decided that I will win the Golden Casket Lottery on the weekend, it’s around $4 million Australian, which is just about enough to buy some fish’n’chips in the UK. Nevertheless even although the Australian dollar is pretty weak just now I’m thinking that I could still buy many things here and so as I was walking back from town I was preparing a list of what I think I should buy after the weekend, after the money has been deposited into my bank.
So what is on my list you may ask, well I think I would need to get a car of course because my old Ford is lying in a garage about 600 km’s from here and it is unregistered, so she is of no use to me just now. In the future I’ll hang onto her, and refurbish her to make her brand new once more and I want to do some of the work myself. A new coat of paint, a new gearbox and a complete engine overhaul and she will be ready for another 500,000 km’s.
I will also buy a few more cars in the down the track and I’m thinking of a 2.8 Injection Ford Capri if I can get one. An XD Ford Falcon, Daimler Double Six, XJ Convertible, Range Rover (as new as possible because a new one is around $450,000) A Daimler Coupe XJC, Granada Ghia Coupe and a Bentley, possibly a convertible, but I’m not sure I’ll just have to see how I feel at the time and of course the price tag.
I will of course have to buy a house or two because I will need somewhere to keep all my cars, but where will I go. I’m in Armidale in NSW just now and I think I would buy a house here and maybe live here for a while until all this virus fiasco dies down, but I would also buy a place up in Queensland closer to my own home where I should be able to find a larger property for the million dollar mark which would be suitable for keeping my new car collection. But I would also like to have a small place near Brisbane city which should be possible without spending too much money. So I’m hoping that by the time I buy the three houses I will have spent no more than $2 million. I would love to buy the Range Rover sooner rather than later but I think I will buy a second hand Mazda or Hyundai in the meantime as a runabout.
Well that leaves me with around $2 million left and if I were to convert this amount into £’s then it would be around £1 Million currently. Most of the cars that I want come from home and so I will have to be in the UK for a while to source them and so I will buy a wee hoose somewhere, maybe in Kilbarchan or Bridge of Weir or one of the smaller places near Johnstone. Most of my friends still live in this area and it would be great to reconnect with everyone and at the same time base myself here for a few months and it looks like I would have to spend around £100.000 to find a nice wee place but that still leaves me plenty to buy my cars, but I’ll need to get them back to Australia.
Then again, I might have to rethink this through a bit more because I seem to spending money at a hell of a rate and before I know it, it may soon all be gone so I’d better hang on to a wee bit because I also want to buy a place in Thailand although I can only buy an apartment there because they do not allow foreign ownership of land. If I wanted to buy a house I would have to buy with a Thai national and they would own 51% and me 49% but I can buy an apartment no problem, but where would I buy?………..Good question………….so many wonderful places there and I can think of three places that come to mind. Number one would be Chiang Mai in the north of the country, number two would be Hua Hin in the south west and finally Nakhon Phanom, which is on the banks of the Mekong River in the north east.
But you know as I write this I’m thinking to myself that the first part of my plan might also be a little crazy, I mean why spend all this money in Australia when I would not be living here most of the time. If I had the means to live in another country then I would be out of here as soon as the virus allows and so I will maybe reduce the allocated budget for the Australian expenditure, however buying a couple of properties would be a good investment and I can rent them out for a little bit of income.
So here’s me thinking that it would be quite easy to start spending this windfall but I think I’ll have to sit down over a few whisky’s and think this through a bit more, but at least it will be fun doing so. All I have to do now is wait until the me boat comes in…………