{"id":974,"date":"2007-10-20T04:21:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T09:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/974"},"modified":"2007-10-20T04:21:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T09:21:34","slug":"apparently-i-missed-out-on-a-real-bargan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/974","title":{"rendered":"Apparently I Missed Out On A Real Bargan&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"165\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.hemmy.net\/images\/car\/automobileimitation01.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Mercedes C Class, verses the Chinese made Geely Merrie 300.&nbsp; Check out the cute little hood ornament on the Geely.&nbsp; Ah&#8230;but pity the poor billionaire who spent his hard earned money on a Rolls Royce&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"425\" height=\"515\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/sunboar.files.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/rolls-royce-phantom-vs-hongqi-hqd.jpg\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nWhen he Could have bought the Chinese Hongqi HQD and saved so much.&nbsp; More auto knock-offs <a href=\"http:\/\/gemssty.com\/2006\/10\/29\/top-10-copycat-cars\/\">Here<\/a>.&nbsp; Say&#8230;I don&#8217;t see a knockoff Spirit of Ecstasy standing on the Hongqi&#8217;s grill.&nbsp; Maybe some talented Chinese artisan could make one for it.&nbsp; Something like this maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/record\/archives\/vol20\/vol20_iss26\/record2026.17.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"440\" height=\"314\" alt=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/cu\/record\/archives\/vol20\/vol20_iss26\/record2026.27c.gif\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercedes C Class, verses the Chinese made Geely Merrie 300.&nbsp; Check out the cute little hood ornament on the Geely.&nbsp; Ah&#8230;but pity the poor billionaire who spent his hard earned money on a Rolls Royce&#8230; When he Could have bought the Chinese Hongqi HQD and saved so much.&nbsp; More auto knock-offs Here.&nbsp; Say&#8230;I don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}