A LORRY driver who gained £15.5 million on the lotto after a tip from Mystic Meg used his whopping prize to purchase a motor for day-after-day of the week.
Tom Naylor traded in a 20-year-old Ford Granada for a £1.1 million “dream grid”, that includes luxurious fashions from Rolls-Royce, Jaguar and Land Rover.
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Tom and his spouse Rita claimed the massive win again in 2001, crediting The Solar’s personal Mystic Meg for the prize.
The much-missed astrologer helped the couple declare the Nationwide Lottery’s sixth-largest jackpot ever.
Tom was impressed to purchase a lotto ticket after studying Meg’s horoscope column within the cab of his 16-tonne lorry, which suggested Geminis to maintain one in a yellow mug “so as to add luck”.
Whereas he did not have a yellow mug, he was capable of improvise by sticking the ticket in his map guide, which occurred to be vibrant yellow.
Simply 9 hours later his numbers got here up and he grew to become a multi-millionaire.
Talking to The Solar within the wake of Meg’s demise final yr, the couple stated: “We nonetheless learn Mystic Meg’s stars in The Solar day-after-day and we’re proof that her predictions come true.
“Since then we’ve been capable of purchase all of the issues and do all the things we at all times dreamed of.
“From the very first time I performed I knew I used to be going to win.”
Since claiming the money, Tom has constructed up fairly a automobile assortment on his personal private forecourt.
His steady features a £47,000 Ford Mustang V8 muscle automobile, three high-end Jags, a Land Rover Discovery and a large Hummer.
Maybe the Crown Jewel, although, is his Aston Martin DB9 Bond Version.
Solely 150 have been ever made to have fun the discharge of the 2016 Bond movie Spectre, and he snapped up quantity 76 for £170,000.
The fortunate lotto winner instructed Birmingham Dwell: “I do love my automobiles and profitable such a lot of cash has enabled me to indulge my ardour.
“The primary automobile was a Jaguar XJR which I purchased 17 years in the past once I first gained the lottery.
“I nonetheless have that automobile now.
“Over time, I’ve purchased increasingly more automobiles.
“Now I’ve one for day-after-day of the week.”
And talking to the Nationwide Lottery he added: “After years of sitting in my cab in site visitors jams, it’s now pure enjoyment to be behind a wheel.
“Some days I couldn’t wait to get out of my cab; now you generally must prise me out of those automobiles.
“Automotive salesmen love me, particularly once I pay money.”
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