BMW..."Escort Service"... that's hillarious!
I'll use that one on one of my ex-wives. She got the Jeep and the house and the... and all I could afford was an Escort.
Your story reminds me of something I just ran across. In 1908, Henry Ford stuck the engine of a "six" into a Model T and tooled around Detroit, racing and amazing other autoists.
In 1908, Henry Ford stuck the engine of a "six" into a Model T and tooled around Detroit, racing and amazing other autoists. And thereby inventing the American pastime of hot-rodding. The vehicle in question was black, no doubt, as in *You can have it in any colour you want, so long as you want black...*
But do you know why black was Ford's preferred colour choice?
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