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New Year's Eve was my 34th wedding anniversary and my wife got me my dream car. A Bentley Continental GT 12V Le Mans limited Edition Coupe (1 of 48 in existence). OMG! Mind blown!!! It is so fast. Scary fast. I love it!!!
I AM NOT WORTHY.

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New Year's Eve was my 34th wedding anniversary and my wife got me my dream car. A Bentley Continental GT 12V Le Mans limited Edition Coupe (1 of 48 in existence). OMG! Mind blown!!! It is so fast. Scary fast. I love it!!!
I AM NOT WORTHY.

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Very cool... just wait until you get the service bills!

I just got rid of my Continental-R after one $10K service bill too many!

Best advice... drive it a lot!!! The more you drive them, the fewer issues it will have!

Cheers and congrats! It's a stunner!

Sirhr
 
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New Year's Eve was my 34th wedding anniversary and my wife got me my dream car. A Bentley Continental GT 12V Le Mans limited Edition Coupe (1 of 48 in existence). OMG! Mind blown!!! It is so fast. Scary fast. I love it!!!
I AM NOT WORTHY.

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Did we just become best friends?

And would you like to give a friend a ride?
Asking for myself, everyone else can get in line.
 
i take you are not in the "poor" group here and do not shoot a savage BA rifle,a taurus HG or kel tec auto rifle. i'd be scared to park it in any parking lot or drive it in a lot of my areas.
 
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Very cool... just wait until you get the service bills!

I just got rid of my Continental-R after one $10K service bill too many!

Best advice... drive it a lot!!! The more you drive them, the fewer issues it will have!

Cheers and congrats! It's a stunner!

Sirhr

Similar story with my Maserati. When I daily drove it, I had very few problems. When it became a weekend car, that’s when all the issues started to show up
 
Sweet car….Soooo what does she do for a living? Or did she just buy it with your money?
We own/run 4 companies together. In a proper marriage there is no his or her money, it's our money. We both work 100+hrs a week...our eyes are so baggy they could hold a ten day rain. And yeah...myronman3 hit the nail right on the head. I am blessed. Married an Italian from NYC and we live in my hometown in So. OC.

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We own/run 4 companies together. In a proper marriage there is no his or her money, it's our money. We both work 100+hrs a week...our eyes are so baggy they could hold a ten day rain. And yeah...myronman3 hit the nail right on the head. I am blessed. Married an Italian from NYC and we live in my hometown in So. OC.

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Congrats on the 34 years. The Car is a bonus no doubt. But you hit something on the head. The only successful marriages I know of are when it is OUR money. My folks operated like that for 50+ years; Dad was primary income producer but once I was in 2nd grade my Mom went back to work (I don’t know how many hours a week). The money all went to a common account and was then invested accordingly when they had spare money. As a result, there were no money fights to my knowledge.
 
Yeah...everything we do is like that. We got hitched and became one. She's got the NY street smarts and I got the book smarts...both of us were on our own before we were 18yrs old...including couch bouncing and living in a car. Had nothing...determined to be something. I could not have found anyone better. She is literally my better half. I cannot keep up with her. The woman is a machine. :)
 
Now we will know who you are when you park that at the PRS match. 😁

The Mojave Air & Space Port, 80 miles north of Los Angeles allows 200+mph runs for average Joes like me. Just gotta get the car safety checked and learn how to properly use the shift paddles beforehand.
It’s pretty nuts cars can even go that fast!
 
We own/run 4 companies together. In a proper marriage there is no his or her money, it's our money. We both work 100+hrs a week...our eyes are so baggy they could hold a ten day rain. And yeah...myronman3 hit the nail right on the head. I am blessed. Married an Italian from NYC and we live in my hometown in So. OC.

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Took my wife 10 years of marriage before she got responsible with money. If it had been joint accounts we'd have been bankrupted at least twice.
We have never fought over money. I take care of the house and she makes sure it stays warm.

This also means she pays no attention to guns coming and going, and I have a small fleet of vehicles.


I quit working 100 hour weeks a long time ago. Decided I wanted to enjoy my life rather than work myself into the ground and get too old to enjoy it.

But, I keep telling kids that they don't get a fancy house and expensive cars working 40 hours for someone else. They all want to start at the bottom, act like overtime is a sin, and get paid boss wages.
 
New Year's Eve was my 34th wedding anniversary and my wife got me my dream car. A Bentley Continental GT 12V Le Mans limited Edition Coupe (1 of 48 in existence). OMG! Mind blown!!! It is so fast. Scary fast. I love it!!!
I AM NOT WORTHY.

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Congrats. Thirty-seven for me and the missus on the 30th. Not in the Bentley class, but I did get components for 20k of 9MM

Sweet ride.
 
We own/run 4 companies together. In a proper marriage there is no his or her money, it's our money. We both work 100+hrs a week...our eyes are so baggy they could hold a ten day rain.

^^^ This right here.

I've got a friend who owns/runs a pretty decent-sized and relatively fancy Italian restaurant in PA. Kid was a hard-working NCO for me during his time in the Corps. Now he runs around in fine clothing and has a couple Maseratis.

He posted a couple photos of them from time to time on his FB page, and got tired of the "must be nice" comments, so he posted his work schedule...didn't have any takers after that point.

OP; congrats on the car and more importantly, the success in marriage. May you have many more fine years together.
 
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That's a nice bike. I have always wanted been a HD fan. About 25 years ago, I was poking around a junk yard in Clinton, Texas (kind of near Greenville) and spotted a 1969 Shovelhead. Last of iron horse before AMF bought them out. 12 in ape hangers. Front was raked 23 degrees. King and queen seat. Probably the only thing not stock was the 42 mm Del Orto carb. They wanted 9k for what was then just about an antique. I just didn't have the scratch. I couldn't be poor anywhere else. I had to be poor right there.