LANSING, Mich. -- The Washington Township winner of the $42 million Mega Millions ticket last Saturday said he wants to start a pecan farm in Georgia.

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During a news conference in Lansing Friday, Christopher Crane, 51, said he will retire from his job at Chrysler, where he works as a service engineer. His wife Tina, 47, will also leave her job as an X-ray technician.

Her dream is to start a horse ranch for disabled children.

Crane said, "I started looking at the numbers, and I was like no way and then I looked at them again, and I was like OK, who is the practical joker?"

Crane and his wife said the first thing they will buy is a Chrysler Town & Country and move south to buy the pecan farm. Crane, a father of four, decided to take the winnings over 26 years rather than taking a lump cash payment—that's a $1.6 million pre-tax check for the first year.

Crane said, "We're going to take the annuities. We thought about that one lump sum, that's kind of a big amount to try to handle so the annuity we can spread that out and kind of manage it fairly well."

Crane bought the winning ticket at Stoney Creek Liquor Shoppe in Macomb County's Washington Township, 24 miles north of Detroit.

He said he has been buying tickets for years using the same numbers, 20 tickets, two times a week and the most he has ever won was $7.

The Mega Millions drawing is every Tuesday and Friday.