{"id":234,"date":"2020-04-09T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/?p=234"},"modified":"2020-04-09T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T02:29:14","slug":"two-tickets-to-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/04\/09\/two-tickets-to-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO TICKETS TO PARADISE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Paradise is a relative concept for our purposes, but I suspect several of you reading this would consider a visit to the annual 24-hour race at Le Mans, France, to be one definition of it.\u00a0 What we have here are two tickets to paradise, and they date from 1962.<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-235\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Le-Mans-tickets-151x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"1192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Le-Mans-tickets-151x300.jpeg 151w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Le-Mans-tickets-515x1024.jpeg 515w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Le-Mans-tickets-768x1527.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Le-Mans-tickets-773x1536.jpeg 773w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Le-Mans-tickets-1030x2048.jpeg 1030w, https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Le-Mans-tickets.jpeg 1198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The top ticket is the basic entry ticket, and note the perforations spelling &#8220;24 HEURES DU MANS&#8221; and &#8220;1962&#8221;.\u00a0 Such perforations were a way of preventing fraudulent tickets in the days before bar codes and magnetic strips and such.<\/h2>\n<h2>The bottom ticket is likely even rarer, and it&#8217;s a re-entry ticket serving the same purpose as getting your hand stamped so you can leave and then come back into an event.<\/h2>\n<h2>These tickets will not likely get you into any events now, but as collectors&#8217; items or just plain motorsports artifacts, they&#8217;re not bad, and they might just get you into an automobilia exhibition!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradise is a relative concept for our purposes, but I suspect several of you reading this would consider a visit to the annual 24-hour race at Le Mans, France, to be one definition of it.\u00a0 What we have here are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/2020\/04\/09\/two-tickets-to-paradise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.britishcarforum.com\/Healey-Oregon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}