{"id":36134,"date":"2020-04-06T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=36134"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:23:02","slug":"ready-to-resto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2020\/04\/ready-to-resto.html","title":{"rendered":"Ready to Resto!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Owner: Lee Storz (Willows, CA)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEverything\nin my life revolves around my Charger. Everyone who knows me, knows my\nCharger.\u201d \u2014 Lee Storz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG001.jpg\" alt=\"lee storz sitting on the hood of his dodge charger\" class=\"wp-image-36137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG001.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG001-576x324.jpg 576w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG001-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG001-992x558.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI purchased this car on July 26, 1983, for $1,700. I drove it home and will never forget the feeling it gave me: It had so much power compared to anything I had ever driven that it put a lump in my throat and a smile on my face.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG002.jpg\" alt=\"lee storz pointing at his vehicle license plate that says &quot;Lee's RT&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-36138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG002.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG002-576x324.jpg 576w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG002-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG002-992x558.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOver the years, I fixed it up myself, let my high school auto shop classmates work on it with me, and drove it daily until 1990. At the time, it began to run rough, so I parked it and started accumulating the parts I would need to make it a nice, modern daily driver. Now, I\u2019m digging into the history of this car and getting ready for the restoration process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG003-2.jpg\" alt=\"Lee storz\" class=\"wp-image-36141\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2018 Dodge Charger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Plum Crazy\n\u2013 Lee\u2019s wife\u2019s daily driver)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG004.jpg\" alt=\"2018 dodge charger\" class=\"wp-image-36142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG004.jpg 800w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG004-576x324.jpg 576w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG004-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2008 Dodge Charger<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(TorRed \u2013\nLee\u2019s daily driver)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG005.jpg\" alt=\"2008 dodge charger\" class=\"wp-image-36143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG005.jpg 800w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG005-576x324.jpg 576w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_IMG005-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Got a resto\nin the works? Planning one? <a href=mailto:content@dodgegarage.com>Let us know!<\/href=mailto:content@dodgegarage.com><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owner: Lee Storz (Willows, CA) \u201cEverything in my life revolves around my Charger. Everyone who knows me, knows my Charger.\u201d \u2014 Lee Storz \u201cI purchased this car on July 26, 1983, for $1,700. I drove it home and will never forget the feeling it gave me: It had so much power compared to anything I had ever driven that it put a lump in my throat and a smile on my face.\u201d \u201cOver the years, I fixed it up myself, let my high school auto shop classmates work on it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":36145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[561],"class_list":["post-36134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-restomod"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Ready-to-Resto_Feature.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\/36134"}],"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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36134"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36605,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134\/revisions\/36605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}