{"id":36202,"date":"2020-03-24T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T19:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=36202"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:23:04","slug":"remembering-larry-rathgeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2020\/03\/remembering-larry-rathgeb.html","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Larry Rathgeb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is the 50th anniversary of when the beloved engineer Larry Rathgeb and his Chrysler crew tuned a Dodge Charger Daytona, driven by Buddy Baker, to set the world record on a closed circuit by hitting 200 mph. This day will be remembered forever as not only a time of automotive achievement, but also a day to remember the life of Rathgeb and all of his accomplishments. Rathgeb fell victim to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus on Sunday, March 22nd, in West Bloomfield, Michigan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To all of our community members, please use this as a powerful reminder to continue practicing social distancing and being mindful of our sanitary methods. We want to protect other people like Larry Rathgeb from leaving us too soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Larry Rathgeb&#8217;s contributions to stock car racing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hemmings.com\/stories\/2020\/03\/24\/coronavirus-claims-larry-rathgeb-chrysler-engineer-who-oversaw-first-closed-circuit-200-mph-lap?fbclid=IwAR0khfvtmQ9GjOnn9WQ9oH-LLe_892N4gshqdNpLzEnOrBuSny-ZWrO-Wvo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"here (opens in a new tab)\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 50th anniversary of when the beloved engineer Larry Rathgeb and his Chrysler crew tuned a Dodge Charger Daytona, driven by Buddy Baker, to set the world record on a closed circuit by hitting 200 mph. This day will be remembered forever as not only a time of automotive achievement, but also a day to remember the life of Rathgeb and all of his accomplishments. Rathgeb fell victim to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus on Sunday, March 22nd, in West Bloomfield, Michigan. To all of our community members, please [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":36214,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[2948,528],"class_list":["post-36202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-dodge-classics","tag-drag-racing"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/larryrathgebfeature.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36202"}],"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=36202"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36218,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36202\/revisions\/36218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}