{"id":28912,"date":"2019-10-03T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=28912"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:24:15","slug":"sema-young-guns-michael-needs-your-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/showcase\/2019\/10\/sema-young-guns-michael-needs-your-vote.html","title":{"rendered":"SEMA Young Guns Michael Needs Your Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

They say young people are not into\nperformance cars. There\u2019s all this online chatter from so-called marketing and\nresearch experts that millennials would rather be on their phone than wrenching on a\nhigh-performance car. Well, that\u2019s not the case for 25-year-old Michael Bollinger,\nas he has no issues getting dirty while working on his 1970 Dodge Challenger.\nSo determined was this young man in getting his project completed, he set a goal\nfor himself: to have his ride on display at the SEMA show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why he needs your help. Michael\nis entered in the SEMA Battle of the Builders Young Guns category, which is\nstrictly a fan vote competition to see who gets invited to the big dance in\nVegas. There\u2019s lots of competition, but only one cool-looking Dodge and that\u2019s\nMichael’s. Vote today as the polls will close this Friday (October 4). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sole-purpose behind SEMA\u2019s\nYoung Guns program is to inspire young car builders and enthusiasts since it\u2019s crucial\nto the future of the automotive hobby. The Young Guns category is designed to\nencourage young builders to pursue their passions and shine the light on the\nup-and-coming builders. To be considered for a SEMA Young Gun, you must be under\nthe age of 27 (as of November 8, 2019). The Young Guns will be featured at this\nyear\u2019s SEMA Battle of the Builders competition that has many notable and famous\ncar customizers and artists duking it out for bragging rights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI grew up in a Dodge family. My dad\u2019s first car was a 1973 Dodge\nCharger that he still has to this day. All my siblings and I were brought home\nfrom the hospital as newborns in the Charger, and it was the first car we all\ngot to drive once we received our learner permit. I grew up to love Mopars and\nalways enjoyed going to car shows as a family. I bought my 1970 Dodge\nChallenger in 2013 at the age of 19. I had just graduated high school and was\nlooking for a car I could restore with my dad so I could take it to car shows.\nI was ecstatic when I found it for sale just a few hours away,\u201d exclaimed\nMichael as he told us about himself and his passions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Michael found his Challenger, it was already in the process\nof being restored by the previous owner. Unfortunately, the workmanship from the\nprior shop that had worked on the car was not as nice as Michael wanted, so he\nbasically had to go through every nut and bolt along with the body panels in\ngetting the car to his liking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything was stripped out of the car because he (previous\nowner) had just painted it. We packed all the loose parts into boxes, loaded\nthe car onto our trailer and brought it home. I did not care for the color of\nthe car and wanted to repaint it HEMI\u00ae<\/sup> Orange. Unfortunately, the previous body\nshop did not prepare the car correctly when they painted it just a few months\nprior. There was a layer of paint that never cured properly, which forced us to\nscrape and sand all the paint off the entire car and start over. I decided that\nsince we had already gone through all the work on the body that we should paint\nthe car on a rotisserie. It was at this point that my 1970 Challenger went from\nbeing a low-budget project car to becoming a show car. All the parts that came\nwith the car were no longer good enough to be on a show car, so I spent many\nhours sandblasting and repainting everything I could, and most everything else\nwas replaced with new parts,\u201d commented Michael.
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Michael installed a modified 440-cubic-inch V8 in his Challenger and swapped out the automatic for a Chrysler New Process A833 4-speed transmission. There\u2019s also a host of aftermarket parts he went with, which gives his Challenger a distinctive look. Michael has always been fascinated with the 1970s car culture his father grew up in and that is what inspired him to make his car look old-school. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI re-arced the leaf springs to jack up the back of the car, added\ntraction bars and used Keystone Klassic wheels. I also ran stainless steel gas\nlines, break lines and exhaust, so the bottom of the car looks just as clean\nand shiny as the top. My car made its debut at the 2016 Chrysler Nationals in\nCarlisle, Pennsylvania, where it took first place in the Young Guns class. I enjoy taking\nit to local and national car shows, and I also used it as my get-away car for\nmy wedding in 2018,\u201d said Michael. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, take a quick moment and click on the SEMA Young Guns<\/a> link and help this young, passionate Dodge enthusiast get his car to the 2019 SEMA Show. Remember to act quickly as voting ends Friday, October 4. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say young people are not into performance cars. There\u2019s all this online chatter from so-called marketing and research experts that millennials would rather be on their phone than wrenching on a high-performance car. Well, that\u2019s not the case for 25-year-old Michael Bollinger, as he has no issues getting dirty while working on his 1970 Dodge Challenger. So determined was this young man in getting his project completed, he set a goal for himself: to have his ride on display at the SEMA show. That\u2019s why he needs your help. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":28916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[2948,561],"class_list":["post-28912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showcase","tag-dodge-classics","tag-restomod"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/feature-5.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28912"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28925,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28912\/revisions\/28925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}