{"id":38722,"date":"2020-06-03T09:23:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=38722"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:22:45","slug":"jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2020\/06\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-5.html","title":{"rendered":"Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History a Quarter-Mile at a Time &#8211; Episode 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 1955, drag racing still had a lot of variety existing within the sport: powerplant options, body styles, fuel choices, etc. But one thing every racer had in common was their amazement of Lloyd Scott, who became the first driver to break the 150-mph mark. And we can&#8217;t forget about the beginning of the <i>Drag News<\/i> paper that supplied quicker, up-to-date information on racing. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"See what else made 1955 such an important year in drag racing history. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhra.com\/news\/2020\/hot-rod-history-jack-beckman-episode-5-1955-explosion-drag-racing-innovation-performance\" target=\"_blank\">See what else made 1955 such an important year in drag racing history.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/05\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 1<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhra.com\/news\/2020\/hot-rod-history-jack-beckman-episode-2-how-nhra-created-sanctioned-drag-racing\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 2<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2537916919804128\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 3<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/06\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 4<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=608845629728956\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 6<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/06\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 7<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhra.com\/news\/2020\/hot-rod-history-jack-beckman-episode-8-1958-drag-racing-innovation-booms\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 8<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/07\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-9.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History: Episode 9<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2020\/07\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History: Episode 10<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1955, drag racing still had a lot of variety existing within the sport: powerplant options, body styles, fuel choices, etc. But one thing every racer had in common was their amazement of Lloyd Scott, who became the first driver to break the 150-mph mark. And we can&#8217;t forget about the beginning of the Drag News paper that supplied quicker, up-to-date information on racing. See what else made 1955 such an important year in drag racing history. Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 1Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 2Jack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":38724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,1921],"tags":[528,615],"class_list":["post-38722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","category-video","tag-drag-racing","tag-nhra"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/beckmanepisode5feature.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\/38722"}],"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=38722"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44402,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38722\/revisions\/44402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}