{"id":860,"date":"2009-06-16T02:59:30","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T07:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tertrerougetimes.com\/?p=860"},"modified":"2009-06-22T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T17:31:28","slug":"a-car-show-on-the-way-to-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"A car show on the way to Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_866\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px; max-width: 300px; \"><div class=\"img size-medium wp-image-866\" style=\"width:300px;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.dreamhosters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/rain-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Driving in the rain on the way to Normandy\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>\n\t<div>Driving in the rain<\/div>\n<\/div><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driving in the rain on the way to Normandy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ON THE ROAD TO NORMANDY, France &#8212; One might be surprised at how many Brits attend the 24 Hours of Le Mans &#8212; and while this writer has no official numb er &#8212; all you have to do is look at all the cars heading for home and the ferry in the Normandy region.<\/p>\n<p>More than that it is also one heck of a car show with virtually every car of your dreams on the road in a variety of configurations. These include the noble late model Bentley, about every flavor of Porsche you can imagine, including many that have the full roll-cage treatment, and any number of Ferraris as is pictured at left.<\/p>\n<p>Driving\u00a0 through the rain on the way to Normandy it was also possible to see that there were some folks in convertibles who were putting on the &#8220;stiff upper lip&#8221; as they motored through the moisture.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, a large number of these cars also are showing the 24 Hours of Le Mans Beer Disposal sticker &#8212; and judging by the number of empties that are seen in and around the race track this is a real if unjudged contest.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ON THE ROAD TO NORMANDY, France &#8212; One might be surprised at how many Brits attend the 24 Hours of Le Mans &#8212; and while this writer has no official numb er &#8212; all you have to do is look at all the cars heading for home and the ferry in the Normandy region. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-mans-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":870,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}