I work in wine and have some contacts at the local Bentley showroom who occasionally ask me to come in and serve/talk with customers about Champagne when they're launching a new car and have invited their top clients for a preview evening.
You get some *interesting* people at these events, as you would expect when the car the open night is for has a sticker price in excess of £250'000.
I was there about 6-months ago for the launch of the Bentley GT Speed, with champagne aplenty and phasers set to maximum schmooze
Anyway one chap I have seen at a couple of events, nice bloke always brings his son or a nephew or friend of the family to these open nights gets photos of the sitting in the cars, really nice down to earth chap who hasn't lost site of the fact that these cars are unattainable pipe dreams for most folks.
Anyway I'm topping his glass with champagne and naturally asked him about his car collection which was extensive and impressive, but I never felt he was bragging. Then and he said what do you drive and I said a DeLorean, expecting all the usual BS, anyway much to my surprise, that was it, no chance of selling him a Bentley that evening.
He loved it, came out of the showroom across to the car park where it was, and despite it being a little dirty, I'd been driving to work all week, he was fascinated, quite knowledgeable about JZD and his work at GM etc... he didn't make a single BTTF reference, critique any of the cars shortcomings and thanked me for showing him around.
It was so refreshing to meet someone like that for a change.
J
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Originally Posted by jamesrguk
