Two-footed Rebadging

[T S Magnum]

DIY model 'badge engineering' is pretty common place these days- the guy over the road supposedly has an M318 Touring- but the shear brass neck of this one tickled me:

We went to my cousin's wedding recently, grandfather of the bride had provided the wedding car, a smartly polished silver Chrysler 300C (a bit like below) on private plates and with a special twist; the old chancer had debadged everywhere else and swapped the centres of the Chrysler 'wings' for ones with a prominent white 'B'.



He parked it directly outside the front door of the reception venue where everyone was congregating to smoke or have a drink outside and then spent the whole evening going to and from to drop his jacket off, fetch his camera, drop his camera off etc etc. (is there a PH term for excessive public car lingering?)

The next day both my mum and uncle, knowing my weakness, asked me if I'd seen so-and-so's car- they'd been informed by him "it's the new Baby Bentley"!

What makes a rightly proud grandfather of a stunning bride deceive friends and family like that?!

[T S Magnum]

300bhp/ton said:

Or he was having a joke and a laugh?

Ordinarily I’d have thought the same but he kept a straight face when fussing around the car.

I'm not sure whether to be more impressed with the excecution or saddened by the motive.