Over A Million, Under A Thousand Roundup

I was in the LEGO store the other day when I grabbed the last HulkBuster Iron Man set. From some kid's hand. Who looked a little like Tiny Tim. Then he said while standing with his wobbly crutches "please, kind sir, a poor little urchin from the orphanage, I am. I've saved me shillings for a year to save up for that. May I have it back, please?" He had a British accent for some reason. He looked up at me with big puppy eyes and coughed. I farted in his face, then convinced everyone he did it cuz he was as filthy as truck stop restroom. Then I made out with his mom…which was weird considering the kid told me he was an orphan. Then I drove home with my Hulkbuster Iron Man set and threw it in the closet forgotten next to thousands of dollars worth of other LEGO sets I'll probably never use. There's a lesson to be learned in all of this. That being; good looking people are better people. That's why I'm in charge around here. Life is full of disparity like that. That's why they load first class into the plane first, give them drinks, then parade the unwashed masses into coach. This challenge called Over A Million, Under A Thousand will hopefully offer plenty of comparisons between the extravagantly rich and desperately poor, between the "have mores" and the "have none at all". So sit back, pour yourself a drink and ejoy the roundup. If you're rich, I recommend the 1811 Château d’Yquem. If you're poor, a 40oz. Pabst Blue Ribbon concealed in a paper bag.


Loek1990 starts us off and shows us how the other half live with this Maybach Landaulet. It is a half convertible, half closed luxury sedan with loads of comfort.



If you have well over a million to spend on your means from getting from point A to point B but want to do it in once second flat, the 2015 Ferrari Formula 1 car built by Nathanael L. is just what you need.



Mr. Koenigsegg lives up to his name and asked the all important question; why pay $1.7 million for a crappy Bugatti Veyron when you can pay $3 million for a Koenigsegg Agera R? Why indeed.



Predictably your fearless leader Lino Martins stinks up the joint and the environment with this ratted out diesel powered volksrod. The comments say it all: "a hippie dream turned to a hippie nightmare" and "ugly, rude, and unapologetic, just like the builder". Yep, pretty much.



Life just ain't worth living unless you can make poor people cry with your brand new Bugatti Veyron, the first of many very rich cars built by Peter. he tells us it has a removable roof panel so that commoners can see his tan and his choice of "hired company".



And by hired company I presume he means Mexican day laborers. They're perfect for when you need help in the garden or your swimming pool cleaned. You just give em' twenty bucks and send them back to the Home Depot parking lot from whence they came. Here's an Aston Martin DBR2 Racer.



This Ferrari 275 GTB/C Speciale Berlinetta serial number 06701 - Scaglietti 1964 sold at auction for an eye watering $26,400,000 in August 2014. What? To who? Captain and Tennille? I just looked them up and…no, they're not worth that much.



Turns out love didn't keep those two together. Nor could they afford this Ferrari 250 GTO s/n 3445GT, even in their heyday. It was, however the basis for the official LEGO/Shell/Ferrari promotional set #40192. 



Peter must be on a particular car with serial number kick as he presents this Ferrari 250 Testarossa sn 0714TR, which auctioned for more than 12 million, half of which your trophy wife will get when she divorces you for a teenage fashion model.



Once that happens you can remedy your woes with this 67' Ferrari 330 P4 sn 0856. It would only cost you 20 million and the satisfaction of knowing the fashion model your trophy wife left you for is just a gay little twink boy anyway. No, I'm not bitter!



Anyway, showing us how the other half live, Peter presents this '89 Audi V8 Saloon that he found on the Australian CarPoint website for about $1300 AU. Apparently cars of this caliber and price range don't last long as when he went to check on the ad again, it was gone.



Bummer! Back to the lifestyles of the rich and famous, because, let's face it, they're just that much more exciting, this 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Spezial Coupe - Sindelfingen will set you back over 3 million. Bruce Jenner's impeding sex change will cost far less.



If you have nearly 1.2 million just burning a whole in your privileged pockets, you may be thrilled to learn you can spend it on this 1938  Erdman & Rossi Zeppelin DS8 Roadster . Incidentally, that is how much Charlie Sheen spent on hookers and cocaine last year.



4 million will buy you the 2006 Ferrari / Pininfarina / Glickenhaus P4/5, or roughly only half what Justin Bieber spends on hair products. He's like the King Joffrey of pop. You know…Game of Thrones? Don't you idiots have cable?



Anyway, clearly a rags to riches story here, the '71 Plymouth HEMI 'Cuda Convertible is a decidedly blue collar, hard working muscle car now worth $2,420,000…or roughly what Kim Kardashian spends on Blackberrys. Yep, she buys them by the truckload off of ebay thinking they'll go extinct. You should sell her yours now.



For $6,710,000  you can get this 250 GT TdF LWB Berlinetta 'Tour de France' sn 0585GT… or this amount would allegedly buy your silence if you happened to have been a young boy who has become acquainted with Michael Jackson. There goes another investment opportunity down the drain!



$4,510,000 will get you this 1935 Walker - LaGrande SJ Convertible Coupe, or, if you're Lady Gaga, nearly the same amount buys you an electro-magnetic field reader for your home that is said to detect…ghosts.



Ferris Bueller takes a day off and makes the Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spyder famous. The black with red example here was originally delivered new to Prince Vittorio Emanuele di Savoia, was sold at auction in 2010 for $2,612,500.



$2,200,000 will get you a Bentley 8-Litre Open Tourer YR5076…or an organic blonde weave for Beyonce. It was allegedly made from two sisters who ate nothing but organic, healthy food for two years in order to produce healthy hair.



$3,342,080 will get you a '58 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta 'Tour de France' sn 1039GT. Apparently not learning a thing from his financial woes, Nicholas Cage paid a hefty sum and outbid Leonardo Di Caprio for a skull of a Tyranosaurus Rex. 



I didn't know there was a such thing as a 4 cylinder racing Ferrari, but apparently these little guys can command price tags matching their bigger brothers. This Ferrari 500 TRC, sn 0670MDTR sold in 2011 for US$3,050,600.



A mere 1 million dollars seems like Ramen noodles compared to some of the higher priced cars mentioned here, but the rare '48 Tucker Torpedo Convertible will set you back about that much. Victoria Beckham famously spent nearly double that on an hour long shopping spree.



Awhile ago Peter debuted a General Motors Futurliner - Parade of Progress disguised as a Slave I. Apparently Boba Fett makes a killing as a bounty hunter cuz this model will set you back a cool $4 million. He's a cool dude, that Fett-meister.



We know that rich people can afford cooler things but are they really better people? Woody Allen proved you can love your step-kids a little too much by marrying them. He and his daughter/bride can afford to drive this unique $8,250,000 Ferrari 410 S Berlinetta.



If you were the daughter of David Hasselhoff, you'll have to repress the memory of your shirtless, drunken dad eating a cheeseburger off the floor…which would be impossible since she posted it on Youtube. At 2.5million, he can easily afford this Ferrari F60 America.



There's nothing weirder and creepier than your own dad rubbing sun tan oil on your nubile bare ass, even if you are Brook Hogan. Seems the Hulkster has a thing for young girls and sun tan oil as he also had an affair with his daughter's friend. He can afford the legendary Ford GT40 Gulf/Mirage Racer P/1074.



At the age of 51, Doug Anthony Hutchinson (the creepy guy from The Green Mile) married a 16 year old model and no one was surprised. At $2,707,240 he can easily afford the Ferrari 206 S Dino Spyder s/n 006. Wait, what? Correction; I looked it up and he can barely afford it. 



At merely two serial numbers higher, perhaps the old weirdo would get a slightly better bargain with the Ferrari Dino 206 SP s/n 008. Still at $2,567,520 it leaves no money left for his young wife's hair products. Wait, what? She looks like THAT! Hot Damn!



What else do we have? At a mere $1,017,500 the Type-46 Superprofile Coupe is one of the most affordable cars on the list. It seems MC Hammer "can't touch this" as it is far beyond his budget.



Seems getting cut off from daddy's fortune has wreaked havoc on poor Tori Spelling of 90210 fame. At $2,420,000 the Rolls- Royce Phantom II Continental Sport Coupe is far beyond her meager means.



Seems being the fat, slovenly mom, exploiter and abuser of Honey Boo Boo isn't all that it's cracked up to be. This Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Roadster will set ya back $1,842,500, which is far more than Mama June's net worth. I guess resembling Jabba the Hutt doesn't pay well these days.



The McLaren F1  car #066 was sold at auction in 2013 for $8.47M. You'd think being a weird, freaky-faced, muscle bound prop comedian doesn't bring in the big bucks, but as it turns out, Carrot Top can afford about eight of these.



Peter doesn't list a price for his final entry, the Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlinetta Bertone sn 3269GT, but I imagine it would be well within the too rich for, let's say Snooki but well within the price range of George Lucas.



Firas Abu-Jaber makes a glorious return to the LUGNuts challenges with this over 1 million entry, the Mercedes-Benz SL300 Gullwing. Good to have ya back, Firas!



Capachino proves that you can wait in line for government cheese and still afford a mercedes. He searched the ads and found a 1983 Mercedes-Benz 280E on carsales.com for $980 Australian. MC Hammer, it seems your ship has come in after all!



Is that all of them? Seems it is! Well, I was hoping for more jokes that denote the differences between the very rich and the very poor but, as it turns out, expensive cars are just more exciting. And as we've learned, while they have all the money and trophy wives, rich people aren't always better people. What can ya do? So what's next on the LUGNuts slab anyway? Tune in again next month when we'll have a little challenge we like to call Fools Rush In. April is a foolish month so we have offered you 15 rock stupid automotive concepts for you to sink your dumbs teeth into. Everything from total lemons to freaky show rods to Fiat Pandas made into stretch limousines can be had when you put practicality aside and just be a bunch of complete dumb-asses. Sounds like fun! So invest in some VHS tapes, cuz I'm pretty sure that stock is going to skyrocket soon. When have I ever steered you wrong, anyway? C'mon back and we'll see what other foolish decisions we can make.