{"id":889,"date":"2013-01-24T17:33:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T23:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/01\/24\/130124-bentley\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T21:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:25:16","slug":"130124-bentley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/01\/24\/130124-bentley\/","title":{"rendered":"“That thang got a hemi?” – Pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I was grinding through my usual brutal commute home from work yesterday evening – the longest ten minutes of my life, you know – when I laid eyes on this odd sight:<\/p>\n

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For those who don’t keep up with such things, join the club; I had to google it, too. It’s a Continental GT<\/a>. Bentleys aren’t exactly commonplace in West Texas, although this was the second one I’ve spotted in Midland in the past seven days.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I confess that my second thought after spotting the car was “why would you feel the need to have a vanity plate to tell people what kind of car you’re driving?” I mean, isn’t the car itself sort of, you know, self-explanatory?<\/p>\n

Well, no, actually. Because my first thought was, “oh, there’s a nice-looking Chrysler 300.” And then it struck me: if you’d paid 200 large for a car, you surely wouldn’t want people to mistake it for a car costing 1\/10th as much.<\/p>\n

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I think it’s the badge that threw me, although both have rather boxy rear ends (no offense to any boxy-rear-ended Gazette readers). And I’m sure that Chrysler would be simply appalled<\/i> to think that people are mistaking one of its cars for a Bentley.<\/p>\n

Of course, it does occur to me that the owner’s name is Bently, in which case it all makes a lot more sense, plus I don’t have to express umbrage over the sorry state of spelling on vanity plates nowadays. I blame the interent. [See what I did there?]<\/p>\n

This encounter did give me an idea for a plate for my next car:<\/p>\n

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Wherein I get a Bentley mixed up with a Chrysler…but, really, who hasn’t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars","category-design","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11452,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/11452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}