Hello Veeky Forums - Let's play a game. You are given a million dollars in today's dollars, and a key to a time machine. The time machine can go forward, or backwards in time. But, you may only make a single jump to the future/past and then back again. Your 1 million dollars is worth the physical amount in paper money (so the further back you go, the more it's worth) no matter where you go in time. You can buy any cars, new or used, but there is one caveat: The time machine cannot bring them with you. If you want them in the modern era, you must arrange to have them preserved somehow, which comes out of your million dollars. And, you cannot simply remain in the time period in which you bought the vehicles, you MUST purchase promptly and return immediately as possible.
What cars do you buy, and what do you do with them?
My next post will be my answer.
Joshua Howard
250 GTO so I can LS swap it.
Hunter Hughes
go back a day buy whatever i want and park it in my garage
Carson Campbell
If I go to the future, buy a car, and then come back to now and wait until that time, will I still have the car?
Nathan Wright
I think I would go back to 1991. And I would buy: >1991 Mercedes 300CE-24 >1991 Mercedes 300D 2.5 TD >1991 Mercedes 500E >1991 Mercedes 300TE-24 >1991 Mercedes 300TD 2.5 TD >1991 Mercedes 500SL >1991 Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo II >1991 Mercedes 560SEC >1991 Lamborghini Diablo
So here's my breakdown: In 1991 dollars, Let's assume 70,000 a pop for all the I6 and Diesel W124, for all the options That's 280 for all the 124s except the 500E which retailed for about Let's say the 500E retailed for 90,000..That's 370.. Let's say the 500SL was 100,000, that's 470K Again let's say 100K for the 190E, 570K. Then let's plop on another 200K for the 560SEC and the Lambo. 770K... So I have 230K left.. Let's take 150K and buy a storage shed on a piece of property. Let's put all the cars up on blocks, cover them in a tight sheet, remove the wheels and tires, drain the fluids as much as possible, remove the batteries, and lock up the shed tight.. I'm heading almost 30 years into the future back to present day... I now have 80,000 dollars left to refurbish things like tires on all my now-brand-new fleet of retro Benzes and a Lambo.
I wonder if they would have survived the 30 years just sitting and waiting...What would it be like...?
Jordan Campbell
Oooh an interesting caveat...I didn't think about how that would go.... Yes. You could buy a future car and wait till that time, and it would be "reserved" at a dealer or a used car seller's house/whatever for you to pick up. Like, events would simply take place that allow you to get the car, you somewhat predetermine the future inside the scope that you receive whatever car or cars you buy. Make sense?
Oh damn, this is again another smart move, I didn't really think of doing something this simple I guess I'd rather have a bunch of new retro cars.
Ryder Sanchez
Go back to the 30s. Buy 600k of Bugatti. Put them in a secured warehouse, use 350k in a dividend paying trust fund to pay a custodian to look after the cars, Instruct him to find my dad in the 90s and explain everything. Last 50k is for transport to auctions etc. Sell the cars gradually, hundreds of millions in profits.
Bentley Edwards
you do know that bugatti wouldn't be able to produce 600,000 cars.
there'd be all sorts of concerns that bugatti had produced 600,000 cars that were never seen again. and as soon as they hit the market they'd be fucking worthless.
Logan Torres
I think he's saying 600,000 dollars worth of bugattis, not 600,000 individual bugattis.
Hudson Wilson
Any answer but going back to 2013 and buying bitcoin is the wrong answer.
