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While waiting for my LC to be washed by the local carwash a, what can only be described as kid, rocked up in a Bentley Continental (the cooupe one?) and pulls up in wash bay.
The usual MO is park there, give the friendly guy your keys and walk away. Not our Bentley driver.
He hangs around, waits for them to wash it. When they done, the guy (washer) is about to drive the car to the driying bays. Nope. Not this car you don't.
After a small fuss, the owner gets in, starts it, blip of the engine, engaged reverse and crunch. Car, let me introduce you to gate post. Gate post, meet my dear friend Car.
The carwash owner, all his employees and the general public lingering about spun around to the noise. I suspect the carwash owner lost a few hairs in those few milliseconds.
Damage was: Cracked bumper, exhaust knocked back slightly brake cluster cracked. No metal work though. Not sure what happened under the bumper.
Damage to gate post: A smuge of Bentley Black Gloss.
Anyway, driver man gets out, walks around to the damage, shrugs his shoulders, puts dark glasses back on and gets back in the car and duly parks it for drying. Once dry, he drives off into the distance. I would put money on it he drove off, park in a side street and cried for half an hour.
I can only assume the Bentley, being British, is too polite to have parking sensors. None of that vile beep beep beep. No me...
The usual MO is park there, give the friendly guy your keys and walk away. Not our Bentley driver.
He hangs around, waits for them to wash it. When they done, the guy (washer) is about to drive the car to the driying bays. Nope. Not this car you don't.
After a small fuss, the owner gets in, starts it, blip of the engine, engaged reverse and crunch. Car, let me introduce you to gate post. Gate post, meet my dear friend Car.
The carwash owner, all his employees and the general public lingering about spun around to the noise. I suspect the carwash owner lost a few hairs in those few milliseconds.
Damage was: Cracked bumper, exhaust knocked back slightly brake cluster cracked. No metal work though. Not sure what happened under the bumper.
Damage to gate post: A smuge of Bentley Black Gloss.
Anyway, driver man gets out, walks around to the damage, shrugs his shoulders, puts dark glasses back on and gets back in the car and duly parks it for drying. Once dry, he drives off into the distance. I would put money on it he drove off, park in a side street and cried for half an hour.
I can only assume the Bentley, being British, is too polite to have parking sensors. None of that vile beep beep beep. No me...