Me and my friend Jase were the masters of blag. Races, rallies, gigs, festivals you name it,we blagged it.
One of our favourite blags was the RAC rally. We didn't pay for a single stage for almost a decade. We used various ploys. Fake guest passes were the best, a little ingenuity with a chopped up copy of Autosport, some felt pens and once ready into town to prontaprint to make use of their scanner and laminator. 100% success rate year after year.
Le Mans wise, not much to report but we did blag our way into drivers briefing and prize giving at the Classic in 08, made the most of the free drinks and sat staring at Vanina Ickx for an hour or so. Quite impressive when you consider that they used finger print scanning to get in there (but not in the kitchens round the back).
Other notables were some festival in Leeds where we pretended to speak welsh and convinced some knuckle dragger that we were Gorky's Zygotic Monkey and got stuck into their free drinks quota before doing a runner. That same year we got into the 18th birthday party of the daughter of a well known Brummy comedian. Very swish do, with guests seated in an emptied indoor swimming pool. The evening ended with rope swing mischief over a carp pond (catch a fish or drink the forfeit).
Don't know if it's just the inner Yorkshireman, but everything is just that bit better if you don't actually pay for it.
