"SVTyler" (svtyler)
08/24/2016 at 15:36 • Filed to: None
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"SVTyler" (svtyler)
08/24/2016 at 15:36 • Filed to: None | 2
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The one in Extreme Speed Motorsports driver and Tequila Patron CEO Ed Brown’s sweet Florida house ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ) which has an HPD LMP2 and Ferrari 458 chilling in the background.
SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
> SVTyler
08/24/2016 at 15:40 |
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His mancave is dramatically larger than my entire cave.
OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
> SVTyler
08/24/2016 at 15:50 |
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I don’t see a blender there to make margaritas with though...
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SVTyler
> OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
08/24/2016 at 15:54 |
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Ed’s a busy guy, he probably just buys these:
pauljones
> SVTyler
08/24/2016 at 15:55 |
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No pool table, no dart board, no ping-pong table, no 72" flat screen with every video game system from Atari on up, no victrolla, no classic juke box, no old vinyls and album covers, no awesome old beer tap handles and bar signs, no ambiguously obtained old street signs and license plates/hubcaps, no tool cabinets for every woodworking and automotive tool known to man, no ratty-looking but absurdly comfortable couch to sit and nap on, no surround-sound system, no 8-track player.
This isn’t a mancave; it lacks the necessary character and charm. This is more akin to some rich guy’s personal nightclub.
Cool? Yes. Just not a mancave.
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OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
> SVTyler
08/24/2016 at 15:56 |
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What patron CEO needs his tequila in his drinks anyways :P Everyone knows the good stuff isn’t imported into the USA anyways. You have to buy it in Mexico.
Svend
> pauljones
08/24/2016 at 16:02 |
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Here here good sir, I concur wholeheartedly.
Too much has been spent for this to be a proper ‘mancave’. A proper mancave evolves and isn’t just built that pristine.
There’s no ‘getaway feel” to it, just a ‘some of our friends are coming round this evening, shall we move it from the main house out to the private bar?’.
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SVTyler
> SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie
08/24/2016 at 16:03 |
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I know the feel, the Ferrari takes up more space just sitting there than I have in the main room in my college studio apartment :( Dude’s gotta find some way to use up all the 34,500sq. ft in the house though.
Honeybunchesofgoats
> SVTyler
08/24/2016 at 16:05 |
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I get that he’s Patron’s CEO, but an entire full-sized bar stocked exclusively with tequila? That’s some Patrick Bateman level shit, right there.
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SVTyler
> pauljones
08/24/2016 at 16:08 |
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That’s what’s crazy about houses this size, dude probably has separate dedicated rooms for all that stuff. Like there was one house I was looking at earlier today that had a bar, video game room, movie theater, game room, billiard room, machining room off the garage, “lounge” (buncha couches basically), cigar room, wine tasting room, etc. I’m with you, this place is super-nice but it’s not somewhere where you can go feel at home. Feels more like ESM’s hospitality suite at Le Mans or something.
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pauljones
> SVTyler
08/24/2016 at 16:15 |
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That’s why, despite being a big fan of architecture, I’ve never cared for huge houses, no matter how beautiful they may be. At some point in time, all the money in the world isn’t going to buy you taste, class, or charm.
Contrary to what MTV and their myriad of reality TV shows like to communicate, beauty in life is found in the imperfections of our world, not the perfections. It’s about taking what you’ve got, scavenging a few things, putting a little work in, and making the best of what’s around you.
More power to this guy, I guess, but I’m not really all that impressed with this sort of thing.
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pauljones
> Svend
08/24/2016 at 16:17 |
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Exactly - a fun mancave may require you to spend a little money, but it requires more creativity and labor-of-love-style physical effort than it does money.
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SVTyler
> Honeybunchesofgoats
08/24/2016 at 16:20 |
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Ikr, if anything that’d be a great excuse to “sample the competitors’ wares” and stockpile all kinds of rare and tasty stuff. Realistically this room probably only gets used a couple times a year, maybe for ESM get-togethers to celebrate Le Mans or the end of the season or for super-informal corporate meetings or something, and they just get a catering company to take care of the beverages, the stuff behind the bar is probably just for show.
AntiSpeed
> pauljones
08/24/2016 at 16:37 |
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I don’t have enough friends to fill that place. :(
It does look more like a small bar/cafe than part of a house.
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SVTyler
> pauljones
08/24/2016 at 16:38 |
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See I love gigantic houses like these because they’re the ultimate yardstick for measuring a designer and builder’s talents; this house isn’t a particularly great example but there is a definite art (and an extremely difficult one at that) to balancing the feelings of intimacy versus opulence while building and designing a truly beautiful home of this size and making the whole thing (exterior and interior design, sense of space, etc.) work together as a cohesive, beautiful design without it becoming a gargantuan, soulless monument to the size of its owner’s wallet and ego. It’s kind of like the difference between a house and a home, some of these places you look at and you’re like, “there’s no way people actually live like that, right?” and some of them you can totally see a normal family living and doing normal family things in.
That being said I’m totally with you, I’d take an 19th-century Victorian or Cape Cod built by craftsmen over some place like this. At some point the space and money spent just becomes excessive...
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SVTyler
> OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
08/24/2016 at 16:43 |
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Makes you wonder what the dude actually drinks. I mean he has all the Patron behind the bar but the Brown’s a millionaire CEO, he could get his hands on all kinds of rare, awesome stuff if he wanted to.
xyzabc
> SVTyler
08/24/2016 at 18:05 |
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The place is a business write-off for entertaining.
Roadster Man
> pauljones
08/24/2016 at 18:45 |
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You just described the man cave that I never knew I needed.
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SVTyler
> xyzabc
08/24/2016 at 19:16 |
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You’re not wrong, did some digging and it turns out the ‘owner’ of the house is listed as an LLC. Not completely unexpected in terms of how creative rich people get with tax dodging but interesting nonetheless.
Nimbus The Legend - Riding on air like a cloud
> pauljones
08/24/2016 at 20:47 |
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needs more go-go cage and stripper pole...