{"id":753,"date":"2017-06-09T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T20:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/?p=753"},"modified":"2017-06-15T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T20:56:30","slug":"500-horsepower-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/2017\/06\/09\/500-horsepower-vengeance\/","title":{"rendered":"500 Horsepower Vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s set something straight: I don’t love cars. I’ve never loved cars. My ex and my brothers always irritated me beyond reason with their talk of Bugatis, horsepower, and million-dollar price tags. To me, a V8 is a nasty veggie juice and not an engine, and my used 2003 Toyota works perfectly fine even though it can’t hit 200 mph and has crank windows.<\/p>\n

But today, I treated myself to cars… and not just any cars:<\/p>\n

007 cars.<\/p>\n

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Aston Martin V12 Vantage “invisibility car” used in Die Another Day (featuring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond).<\/p><\/div>\n

I was never a huge Bond fan growing up, but I’ve warmed up to the series in recent years. My father was always a huge Bond fanatic and we watch VHSs to this day.<\/p>\n

When I was trying to decide what to get my dad as a souvenir, I searched Google for a Bond museum or shop. Lo and behold – the London Film Museum was showing “Bond in Motion,” an exhibit featuring the authentic 007 vehicles from the franchise’s past 50 years.<\/p>\n

When I had asked one of my brothers what he wanted as a souvenir, he sarcastically asked for an Aston Martin.<\/p>\n

This exhibit was essentially killing two birds with one stone – bring home a gift for my dad, and make my brother insanely jealous that I, a car “hater,” would have the audacity to stand next to a fleet of Aston Martins featured in some of his favorite films. (I don’t even know if 500 horsepower is a thing, but it makes my title sound cool!) (If he reads that, he will probably rip his hair out.)<\/p>\n

And that, my friends, is vengeance.<\/p>\n

P.S. I got him his Aston Martin, but I don’t think it’s quite the scale he was implying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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