How can I make a quick $350,000.00?

[flvegan]

Ferrari just introduced the F430 Scuderia Spider, and if I could drum up that kind of cash, I'd like to do the responsible, reasonable thing and buy one. I have a life-or-death NEED to get from standstill to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds with the a/c on. Yeah, I could pay off my house, car, every debt my family has and still have almost $150k in the bank, but just look at this thing:







http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/hot_lists/high_performance/supercars_and_exotics/2009_ferrari_430_scuderia_spider_16m_car_news

[PeaceNikki]

1. What's your email address? I will forward an email from this guy in Nigeria.

It seems like you can help each other.

[SurfinBetty]

29. NO - He's working with ME right now

Stay off my Nigerian money-maker! There's someone in Russia who keeps emailing me with something similar I think, but he keeps typing his letters backwards so I don't think I can help him.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear flvegan!

Do you honestly think if I knew how to raise that much cash, that I'd tell you?

Nope.

Nice car, still...

:P

[AlCzervik]

3. Paddle shifters or stick?

[flvegan]

6. I *think* the F430 only has the Schumacher shift.

Or the "flappy paddle gearbox".

[AlCzervik]

12. if that's one of those no clutch dealies you know how i feel about that

but i'd still kick in some dollars if you take me for a ride.

[Pierre.Suave]

4. sacrilege

the Scuderia should never be a spider.

I still want one though.

LOL

[flvegan]

17. Once they went topless with the regular F430

I knew this was going to happen.

Must have.

[mduffy31]

5. I'm going to go this way and save 100,000

After Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace my love for the Aston Martin is renewed.

[flvegan]

Nice! For $250k, I'd go with the regular F430

my absolute dreamcar.

That DB9 is a sweet ride, though.

[GOPisEvil]

8. There's a drop-top version of that one too.

Just in case that appeals to you.

[Pierre.Suave]

19. the problem with the Aston is a

you would spend what you saved fixing the damn thing. Trust me, if it were not true I WOULD have a baby Aston ASAP.

[mduffy31]

35. I thought you weren't a Doctor yet

[Pierre.Suave]

37. I am not

a doctor, will not be for many years.

[Mike 03]

75. You know how many of those they destroyed during the making

of the film? It would break your heart.

[billyskank]

7. It's pantwettingly gorgeous.

But, I have to admit, my money-is-no-object dream car is still an Aston Martin.

[mduffy31]

9. You and me both

[billyskank]

15. Didn't see your post before I posted.

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

10. it is gorgeous.

[RevolutionaryActs]

11. Yeah, the Aston Martin is way sexier.

Just sayin'

[flvegan]

16. Money is NO object?

The 2010 Pagani Zonda (should look like this one below) at $600k should be Veyron-esque bonkers, plus, Mercedes can work on the engine/transmission.



The DB9 is a very, very sweet car, and all in all, good value for money considering.

[billyskank]

18. I wouldn't dare drive a car that mad.

I'd kill myself for sure.

[FloridaJudy]

27. It looks like the batmobile

I'd only pay that kind of money for a car - assuming I had it to spend - if it were really a tardis.

[AlCzervik]

32. yeah but after it gets it's first door ding?

that would suuck.

[Symarip]

13. For that price

It better have a flux capacitor.

[billyskank]

14. When this baby hits 188 miles an hour

you're going to see some serious shit.

[krispos42]

21. TWO flux capacitors...

...with turbos. Turbocharged flux capacitors.


Chromed, turbocharged flux capacitors with spinners.


Yeah, that's it.

[krispos42]

20. 1. Create "1st bank of Flvegan"

2. Ask for bailout
3: Profit!

[flvegan]

26. Yess!!

I can ask for even more money and buy 3 of them for variety!

[krispos42]

28. Well, you have to have some cash for your Christmas party...

... and for an executive "conference"

[DarkTirade]

22. Sell your body.

Science or sex, either one.

[no name no slogan]

23. Step 1: Sell left nut. Step 2: Steal left nuts of others, sell them.

Step 3: repeat until $350k is raised.

[DS1]

24. Eh, I'm about to watch Tonight's Top Gear

Season 12, Ep3, took 1 hr 2 min to download via torrent :D

too slow my ass

[billyskank]

58. I want one of those turbocharged Fiats.

That looks way cool.

[lizziegrace]

25. When you figure it out

let me know...

Someday I'd like to have a house of my own.

[Chan790]

30. Not surprisingly, I've pondered this question.

It's all about opportunity.

Have you ever read The Man who was Tuesday. by G.K. Chesterton? No, well no matter. It's a novel set in Victorian London about a spy sent to infiltrate an organization of criminal mastermind anarchists, all of whom go by the name of a day of the week. What the reader knows and the narrator does not at first know (nor does anybody else in the organization) is that everybody in the organization is actually an infiltrator sent to smoke out everybody else...there is no organization of anarchists. Just a bunch of conspiratorial spies and agents.

With that I suggest you plan a potluck...but don't invite anybody. Then start making phone calls to the alphabet soup (FBI, NSA, ATF, etc.) and tell each of them you want to go paid-informant and can get them into this potluck where a major eco-leftist militant action is being planned.

Take the money and bail on your own party. They spend the night trying to smoke each other out and escalating their own conspiracy theories. You get a Scuderia. :evilgrin:

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[MrScorpio]

31. Dude, remember our deal

You'll need one for me too

[LeftyMom]

33. Normally I'd respond to a post like this with a joke about the poster's junk, but you're safe.

:popcorn:

[AlCzervik]

38. come on now, it's not a vette.

a Ferrari is a road machine but you have to talk to him about the transmission.

[flvegan]

39. Hey now

I've had two Vettes in my life, I've got no junk "issues" girlfriend.

I can't help the transmission. It's all they make. Give me an extra $300k and I'll buy the Zonda with a proper gearbox :)

[AlCzervik]

40. we need to start a letter writing campaign, "Proper Box" :-)

[LeftyMom]

42. I actually wouldn't mind a vette so much.

Provided I got to drive it.

I might let him look at mine someday (my Dad thinks it's his, but he's old and he never drives it, so let's just call that temporary.)

[AlCzervik]

43. my husband had a vette until he totaled it, he almost bought another one

but he figured he had the bad juju for corvettes.

When i was getting my car serviced a couple of weeks ago i went next door to audi dealer, they were so bored they let me take the new r8 out for a test drive, that was a good time but it's a weekend car only.

http://www.audiusa.com/audi/us/en2/new_cars/Audi_R8.html

[flvegan]

44. Are you fucking serious?

How'd you like the R8? I saw one the other day without that stupid vertical stripe behind the door. Loved it.

[AlCzervik]

47. it was awesome and it had a manual tranny, they had 2 there, the one i drove had the

spiffy carbon fiber panel doohickys on the sides, blades or something he called them, anyhow it was plenty torquey and a hella fun ride, steering was super tight and 0-60 was quick, it also had a kick ass sound system but it only has about 400 or so hp which for me would be fine, for you that might not be enough. A really nice freaking ride. I love that dealer, those guys have literally let me drive whatever is in the showroom or on the lot. did i tell you how dead is there now?

[flvegan]

50. Dude, that car is like 25% Lamborghini!

Next time, ask if they have an RS4 on the lot to take out. Like a BMW M3 on 'roids.

It's dead because Audi is a German marque that isn't quite BMW in status, so anyone with German car money isn't going there right now.

[AlCzervik]

52. they do, they have the 2 door drop top, muy husband tried to talk me into

that one, not that exact one but the one that was there when i was looking for Morticia, it's nice and all but not me. Bmw's really aren't me either, if i ever got one i'd want the m5 or the 6 but i really love the one that was in the show moonlighting which might the original 6 old school.

anyhow after Morticia goes to the kid i think maybe i'll get a cooper s.

[LeftyMom]

45. My Dad's vette is his "project car" which hasn't moved since I was in junior high.

:shrug:

But as soon as it's mine? I'm fixing it and driving it, damn it.

[flvegan]

46. So a ZR1, then.

Actually much faster than the Scuderia (0-60 in around 3 seconds flat as opposed to 3.3-ish for the Ferrari). Sweet!

[LeftyMom]

48. That's not shaving much off the budget dear.

You can get in line behind LK and his damned motorcycle and helicopter.

[AlCzervik]

49. fun remover!

i'm kicking in for Lk's helicopter, tel;l him i want a ride, we can buzz Florin, they won't even notice.

[flvegan]

51. The ZR1 is $110k. I'm saving mad cash, yo.

[LeftyMom]

53. That's like enough money to get both of us nice cars, with enough left over for a spare.

:eyes:

[petronius]

34. Nice! Does it come with a bald spot and a little ponytail, or does the

buyer have to get those in advance? :P

[Critters2]

36. Call your Congressmember. Tell him or her that economy will collapse if you don't get this money.

Be sure to relay the urgency of the situation. Use the phrase "...by end of business Monday" as much as possible. I've seen this work before. Honest!

[GOPisEvil]

41. I can save you $300,000

Of course this one is 22 years old, and not quite as cool, but still. It's a Ferrari.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/ctd/922064966.html

[mwooldri]

54. Just kick Jeremy Clarkson off of Top Gear.

Do his job for less. Plus you can test drive a few other vehicles too.

Mark.

[flvegan]

56. The world wouldn't forgive me.

Not that I'd mind driving supercars and acting like an ass all the time. I do the latter for free already.

He did have a Ferrari 360 for a while, and a Lambo Gallardo...

[pokerfan]

55. Pretty, but

I cannot go against my German heritage...

[grateful581]

57. Declare yourself a bank

like American Express Did.
Then you can sign up for some sweet bailout money.

I just changed grateful581 INC. to grateful581 national bank.
Anyone know where I can download some bailout application forms?

I could use about 1 Billion :-)

[LynneSin]

59. Do you have stuff you could sell on Ebay or Craig's List?

Better yet start a website asking everyone who posts there to send you $1 for your Ferrari. Who knows - you could get the money to buy one.

[Fire Walk With Me]

60. Design a cannon for it which can fire pit bulls

and I'll get busy finding the money. Dibs on being the guy who fires the pit bull cannon.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

61. prostitution.

:)

[LeftyMom]

62. porn

Not that I wish to encourage that. Unless it's for me, in which case I could pay you, at most, $20.

[PVnRT]

63. You're a good-looking guy. Just become a high-end man-whore.

[KamaAina]

64. Pretend you're a bank and line up at the bailout trough?

:shrug:

[Mike 03]

65. Sheesh, that's a beautiful darn car. If you hadn't posted the price

I honestly would have guessed it cost more.

Wow, I think I'll save those pix to my hard drive.

[racaulk]

66. Make friends with Henry Paulson.

Apparently, he has some money to spare that he's handing out willy nilly to his friends.

[LSK]

67. why not just get a Corvette and save yourself $300,000

Put a $5,000 blower on it and you are just as fast.

:shrug:

[Mike 03]

69. Is that true? You can get a Corvette for around $50,000?

You make a good point.

How much is a Porsche?

[LSK]

70. yeah I think the base model is around 50k

They have 2 faster models for 70k and 110k I think, but the base model is probably faster than 95% of the stuff out there.

MSRP $48,565

Standard Engine:
6.2L V8, 16 valve, 430 hp @ 5900 rpm

* 6 speed manual (standard) or 6 speed automatic transmission
* 16 mpg city / 26 mpg hwy


http://autos.yahoo.com/chevrolet_corvette_coupe_lt1/

[flvegan]

72. Yes, the Z06 and the ZR1. As I mentioned above

the ZR1 is even more of a death machine. But, it's no Ferrari.

There's also the added plus of getting screamed at in GD for buying Italian and not American. Good times.

[LSK]

74. your sports car fantasies have killed the economy

Way to go!

:D

[old mark]

68. Start with a million, invest in stock.

"I started with nothing, and still have a lot of it left."

mark

[kimmerspixelated]

71. Well, I hear website flipping

and virtual real estate is hot. Didn't Pizza.com go for a coupla mill? Think of clever domain names.

[RetroLounge]

73. Lets be honest

If you had that kind of mad money, you'd be spending some of it on a uhaul and heading west...

:hi:

RL

[LeftyMom]

77. I do live within walking distance of several exotic car dealers.

:shrug:

[RetroLounge]

78. Exactly!

:hi:

RL

[hvn_nbr_2]

76. Open a bank. Fail. Send donations to RNC. Call Paulsen.

Oh, wait! You only want $350K. If you don't want to steal real money, they ain't interested in helping you do it.

[gmoney]

79. Leftymom said your junk was not subnormal...

Why exactly do you need this? ;)

Kidding... please don't hurt me.

Serious... just sell two of your Lamourghinis

[SallyMander]

80. No no no... *this* one