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09-05-2008
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| Now if I could only find that extra 499,000 Dollars, but guess I'd have to mow the grass etc; for the yearly due's
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| Thats a very nice club, but the fee is a premium that I wouldnt pay for. 125,000 can be used in many ways if its disposable, a deposit in a bank for a black day.
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 | Yah but your life must be worth much more than 125000 no? what about time in prison? If you wanted to race around on your lunch break or the weekend, there aren't that many places to legally do it in New York. Besides, $125000 is a drop in a bucket for people like that...cheaper than the cars they'll be driving on the course. And also, not that much more than a couple Golfing 'country clubs' in the US. |
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| How about an open track day that has a smaller fee, shipping the car to the Nurburgring in the summer ? Yes, your quiet correct about the Golfing clubs and even Polo events. Well, as they say getting richer comes with greater costs.
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 | If i had that much money i would find myself a quiet plot of land (bearing in mind clearly i have money to travel so i don't need it 5 Min's down the road, and I'm properly rich so I'm not needed in the office every day, if ever), buy it, fence it (electric of course), erect a summer house and build a track customized to my own personal needs. If your worth $10 million the last thing you want is to be on some 'shared' track where some half-wit only worth $7.5 million could plow into your Bugatti in his inferior Zonda you know what i mean. I'm not being sarcastic here by the way.
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| THIS is where we have to slum it in Europe - btw - a superb track.
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