Bentleys.

They're everywhere. Unfortunately, this is like Bigfoot being everywhere in that I never have my camera handy to snap a picture, but we did see one in a tiny hamlet not too far from here. A Continental. Honest.

Similarly unsubstantiated is my claim to actually be a lawyer in true life, but the difference is that's not true, and I do see Bentleys sometimes.

However, just today, we parked our minivan next to a blacked-out Chrysler 300 with a Bentley-style grille. It was hideous. I didn't feel like torturing my readers with pictures, so I left that alone and moved on into the Statehouse, where my case was tried before... oh, sorry. Wouldn't want you to be bothered with THAT. (no, I didn't do anything illegal)

In fact, I've seen this phenomenon rather a lot: old sedans with excessively large wheels on them. This problem is especially prevalent when driving on I-70, which is chock-full of lousy drivers in Lexus IS-250s and old Chevrolet Caprices with 21" wheels on them. And they go 10 over. This, on a busy freeway where everybody else is speeding, sometimes more so. In fact, there is a lifted Ford Crown Victoria around here (and it's pre-redesign. That's old, even by Crown-Vic standards. We're talking pre-'97 here.) that has somewhere from 22" to 24" wheels on it, as well as 9 stick-on fender vents per side. It has six vents, in two groups of three, on each front fender, and an additional group of three on each rear fender. Evidently, the owner would like us to believe that he has an 18-cylinder engine. Unless he's got one of these stinkers under the hood (and it wouldn't fit), this is patently false.

Overall, this is a pointless trend, and to everyone who spends tons of money modifying a 300 or Caprice to look awful like that, I suggest this to you: just buy one of these.