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Title: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Mk5 GTian on August 03, 2012, 10:54:42 pm
C'mon Hector,

I bought my ticket for the 139m Euromillions draw.

Am I welcome to your World yet? (I really need a Ferrari F12).

Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: RedRobin on August 03, 2012, 11:53:56 pm
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Have you seen the vids of the F12, Ian?





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Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Mk5 GTian on August 04, 2012, 11:37:32 am

OH. MY. FU*KING. GOD!

Thank you Robin. It was taking those corners as if it hadn't even noticed them! Imperious.

I have always ben in awe of Maranello, but since the 458 Italia, they are moving up through the gears. This thing sh*t's all over an Enzo, but it's the fact that Ferrari's have gone back to looking AMAZING! For me, it started with the California, FF, 458, and now this! Before this, in my opinion, the last good looking Fezza was the F355. I feel sorry for the competition to be honest.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: RedRobin on August 04, 2012, 01:13:09 pm
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There's something very special about a Ferrari and its thoroughbred history. It's why I support their efforts in F1 and always have done. I've been in a number of Ferrari's over the years and they each have great character, just like horses do.

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2FRedRobin_05%2FBIALI%2FFerrari_PrancingHorse.jpg&hash=ca31651bcb95c06b93b41b53880b2bf14cb36439)

Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: simonp on August 04, 2012, 01:28:09 pm
Just remember to hold your (prancing) horses when you win, as there is a new Enzo coming out.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: MC71 on August 04, 2012, 08:29:55 pm
That's a bit special!!

Hector ignored me last night, back to work.  :sad1: 
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Deako on August 04, 2012, 11:54:24 pm
Me too. Syndicate at work and my own personal numbers.

Oh well, always Tuesday. The draw is even bigger.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Mk5 GTian on August 05, 2012, 06:41:08 am
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There's something very special about a Ferrari and its thoroughbred history. It's why I support their efforts in F1 and always have done. I've been in a number of Ferrari's over the years and they each have great character, just like horses do.

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2FRedRobin_05%2FBIALI%2FFerrari_PrancingHorse.jpg&hash=ca31651bcb95c06b93b41b53880b2bf14cb36439)


I agree totally Robin. I have always been torn between supporting McLaren (4 miles away from my house, and now a bona fide car manufacturer in their own right) and Ferrari. We always skied in Italy as I grew up, and every year my Dad would buy me a model of a different one. I love Ferrari, and everything about Italy. My second favourite country.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: RedRobin on August 05, 2012, 12:34:03 pm
^^^^
Italy is also one of my very favourite countries. My daughter is off there for a holiday soon. I drove her down to Italy a few years ago and it obviously made a good impression. She also went to Milan a few months ago.

BTW, great thread you started on favourite Ferrari's - Doubtless inspired by this thread.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Mk5 GTian on August 05, 2012, 12:42:09 pm
^^^^
Italy is also one of my very favourite countries. My daughter is off there for a holiday soon. I drove her down to Italy a few years ago and it obviously made a good impression. She also went to Milan a few months ago.

BTW, great thread you started on favourite Ferrari's - Doubtless inspired by this thread.

Indeed Robin. Inspired by the first model my old Dad bought me in Bardonecchia - A 512 BBI.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Gene Hunt on August 06, 2012, 12:08:25 am
Not a penny again :sad1:. Looks like another 2 quid on tuesday.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Ifti on August 07, 2012, 07:05:19 pm
Got my ticket for today.
Come on!!!!!
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Edition30 on August 07, 2012, 09:25:51 pm
I won last Friday...£6.50 :signLOL:


Stuck it all back on. The Ferraris are  :drool:

1 of each in the range if its comes in.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Ifti on August 07, 2012, 10:49:36 pm
No winners again....... There's always Friday....... Lol
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: simonp on August 08, 2012, 07:58:20 am
Got 2 numbers and 2 lucky stars on one line and got all excited...

£16.90! Surely matching 4 numbers from 7 is worth more than that? :sad1:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Tamiyoman on August 08, 2012, 08:31:21 am
Got 2 numbers and 2 lucky stars on one line and got all excited...

£16.90! Surely matching 4 numbers from 7 is worth more than that? :sad1:

I got 1 number and 2 stars and was £8.60 I think lol, that will be going on fridays draw for 160 million  :signLOL:

Prizes for Euro millions are not worth anything until you get 4 + 2 stars or 5 numbers plus stars.  :sad1:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: simonp on August 08, 2012, 09:41:23 am
It's ridiculous. It's already about a gazillion to one odds of winning!!
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: CAPTAIN BRITAIN on August 08, 2012, 11:22:33 am
It's ridiculous. It's already about a gazillion to one odds of winning!!
and yet someone eventually wins it,
Like they say..."You gotta be in it to win it"

Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Gene Hunt on August 08, 2012, 11:52:54 am
Another £2.00 wasted last night. :sad1:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: MC71 on August 08, 2012, 12:29:35 pm
^^^^ it's not wasted, it's "invested!!" (or at least that's what I tell myself).

As I know that I'm winning the jackpot on Friday I don't consider my money lost, just simply being held for me by those lovely peeps at Lottery HQ. Don't feel so bad "investing" another tenner.


Odds of 116,531,800 to 1, bring it on Hector!!


 :happy2:



 
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Gene Hunt on August 08, 2012, 12:31:14 pm
Foooooooooooook is that the odd's !!!!!!!!!!!! :sad1:.Oh well i will still be investing another 2 quid this friday.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: MC71 on August 08, 2012, 12:46:36 pm
^^^^ thems the exacte odds, copied from Lottery HQ. makes you wonder why anyone thinks they might win, we all still do it though. Got to be in it to win it.... As they say!

 :happy2:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: RedRobin on August 08, 2012, 04:27:52 pm
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I worked in a local factory for 11 months while my divorce was being fought (needed to get out of the house without moving out and losing it!) and one of my factory floor co-workers won £1.1 million on the Lottery. But he didn't have a clue or any experience of handling larger sums of money and continued in his job!  :stupid: He'd never done anything else in his life.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Mk5 GTian on August 08, 2012, 04:53:06 pm
Got 2 numbers and 2 lucky stars on one line and got all excited...

£16.90! Surely matching 4 numbers from 7 is worth more than that? :sad1:

I got 1 number and 2 stars and was £8.60 I think lol, that will be going on fridays draw for 160 million  :signLOL:

Prizes for Euro millions are not worth anything until you get 4 + 2 stars or 5 numbers plus stars.  :sad1:

Don't let it change you! :signLOL:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: MC71 on August 08, 2012, 05:19:57 pm
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I worked in a local factory for 11 months while my divorce was being fought (needed to get out of the house without moving out and losing it!) and one of my factory floor co-workers won £1.1 million on the Lottery. But he didn't have a clue or any experience of handling larger sums of money and continued in his job!  :stupid: He'd never done anything else in his life.

I've always said I would continue to work as I truly love my job, don't know if I won a considerable amount I would actually stick to that statement or not but I like to think so. All I know is I would be arriving in my Veyron or my Zonda or my Enzo or my 250 GTO or my Mc!aren F1 or any one of the 30 cars I would have bought by Saturday morning. Shame there is no river near my work otherwise I could arrive via my Sunseeker 155. Suppose I could have a river made!! As you can see winning the lottery wouldn't change me at all. :signLOL:

Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: RedRobin on August 08, 2012, 05:38:56 pm
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I worked in a local factory for 11 months while my divorce was being fought (needed to get out of the house without moving out and losing it!) and one of my factory floor co-workers won £1.1 million on the Lottery. But he didn't have a clue or any experience of handling larger sums of money and continued in his job!  :stupid: He'd never done anything else in his life.


I've always said I would continue to work as I truly love my job, don't know if I won a considerable amount I would actually stick to that statement or not but I like to think so. All I know is I would be arriving in my Veyron or my Zonda or my Enzo or my 250 GTO or my Mc!aren F1 or any one of the 30 cars I would have bought by Saturday morning. Shame there is no river near my work otherwise I could arrive via my Sunseeker 155. Suppose I could have a river made!! As you can see winning the lottery wouldn't change me at all. :signLOL:


....I can totally understand someone wanting to continue working if they love their job. The £1.1m winner I mentioned was in an 8am-5pm factory floor job with only a 15-min break in the morning, only half-an-hour for lunch, and only a 10-minute break in the afternoon. We could get into trouble just for talking. It was like working in an open prison. I've still got some friends from that shared experience who are still there but they would definitely stop if they could afford to.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: MC71 on August 08, 2012, 05:47:54 pm
^^^^ thInk I'd rather be in an open prison than work somewhere like that.

Dont think £1.1 million would go along way nowadays! Recently read somewhere that to live comfortably for the rest of your life you would need to win a staggering £3.6 million (assuming that you were at the start of your working life) to never have to work and to never wont for anything, seems a lot.


Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: RedRobin on August 08, 2012, 05:56:22 pm
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I haven't worked since 1999 when my son died and I now live on State Benefits. You'd be surprised how you adapt and can get by.

A friend recently worked out that you would need about £35k a year to run (and enjoy) a new Ferrari like the F12, even when the first 7 years servicing is included.

It all depends what lifestyle you want.

I don't want much, I just want a lot of it!!  :grin:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Mk5 GTian on August 08, 2012, 05:57:31 pm
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I worked in a local factory for 11 months while my divorce was being fought (needed to get out of the house without moving out and losing it!) and one of my factory floor co-workers won £1.1 million on the Lottery. But he didn't have a clue or any experience of handling larger sums of money and continued in his job!  :stupid: He'd never done anything else in his life.

I've always said I would continue to work as I truly love my job, don't know if I won a considerable amount I would actually stick to that statement or not but I like to think so. All I know is I would be arriving in my Veyron or my Zonda or my Enzo or my 250 GTO or my Mc!aren F1 or any one of the 30 cars I would have bought by Saturday morning. Shame there is no river near my work otherwise I could arrive via my Sunseeker 155. Suppose I could have a river made!! As you can see winning the lottery wouldn't change me at all. :signLOL:


You know what? I reckon it wouldn't matter how much any of us won, we'd all be skint in 5 years, but we'd have some pretty awesome garages  :signLOL:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: RedRobin on August 08, 2012, 06:00:05 pm

You know what? I reckon it wouldn't matter how much any of us won, we'd all be skint in 5 years, but we'd have some pretty awesome garages  :signLOL:


.... :laugh: So true!
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Mk5 GTian on August 08, 2012, 06:03:18 pm

You know what? I reckon it wouldn't matter how much any of us won, we'd all be skint in 5 years, but we'd have some pretty awesome garages  :signLOL:


.... :laugh: So true!

You could do 139 m on 40 cars, let alone running them!  :signLOL:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: MC71 on August 08, 2012, 06:04:29 pm
^^^^ to true indeed, reckon I could spend about £30-£40 million on cars.  :signLOL:

Have already planned the lay out of my dream stable. 2 long rows of cars with a platform at one end with a chair on top for me to just sit there, look put over my beauties and smile!!

 :happy2:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: simonp on August 09, 2012, 08:31:25 am
Nuvver vid for ya:



Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: rich83 on August 09, 2012, 08:51:43 am
A miilion isn't enough for you to completely change your lifestyle for any length of time.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: RedRobin on August 09, 2012, 09:50:23 am

Nuvver vid for ya:



....Great find, Simon!  :drinking: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats: :congrats:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: em2evol on August 09, 2012, 12:02:50 pm
^^^^ it's not wasted, it's "invested!!" (or at least that's what I tell myself).

As I know that I'm winning the jackpot on Friday I don't consider my money lost, just simply being held for me by those lovely peeps at Lottery HQ. Don't feel so bad "investing" another tenner.


Odds of 116,531,800 to 1, bring it on Hector!!


 :happy2:

 

I totally agree... Though I put £50 on the Euromillions the other day when it was the 100 UK Millionaires and didn't win a penny... And I've put £120 on it before (through a syndicate) and still didn't win a penny  :surprised: How can that be!?!  :scared:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Tamiyoman on August 09, 2012, 12:28:34 pm
A miilion isn't enough for you to completely change your lifestyle for any length of time.

I dont know, invest that million into a currency trading fund and you could probably get £250k per year income from it, anyone earning £50-100K per year now would very much change their lifestyle with an additional £250K :happy2:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Mk5 GTian on August 09, 2012, 10:42:27 pm
Nuvver vid for ya:





Thank you Simon. That is awesome. I think this is possibly the best car in the World on sale now.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: richtung on August 10, 2012, 10:34:37 pm
one lucky UK ticket holder has won it...... wasnt me!!  :sick:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: rich83 on August 10, 2012, 10:35:39 pm
A miilion isn't enough for you to completely change your lifestyle for any length of time.

I dont know, invest that million into a currency trading fund and you could probably get £250k per year income from it, anyone earning £50-100K per year now would very much change their lifestyle with an additional £250K :happy2:

25%.... i think you'd be lucky.
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Top Cat on August 10, 2012, 10:40:37 pm
A miilion isn't enough for you to completely change your lifestyle for any length of time.

I dont know, invest that million into a currency trading fund and you could probably get £250k per year income from it, anyone earning £50-100K per year now would very much change their lifestyle with an additional £250K :happy2:

25% interest.  :chicken:

The Nigerians don't even offer that kind of return.  :stupid:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: MC71 on August 11, 2012, 08:15:40 am
Received an email from The National Lottery this morning, "exciting news about your ticket"

 :happy2:
Title: Re: Come and get me, Hector Riva...
Post by: Gene Hunt on August 11, 2012, 08:19:31 am
A miilion isn't enough for you to completely change your lifestyle for any length of time.
.............would be for me at my age. Just checked my ticket & another waste of 2 quid. :sad1: Looks like i will have to finish my 12hr shift now. :sad1: