{"id":39326,"date":"2020-06-22T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=39326"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:22:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:22:43","slug":"jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-8","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-8.html","title":{"rendered":"Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History a Quarter-Mile at a Time \u2013 Episode 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A final structure for NHRA races still hadn&#8217;t yet been set in 1958. But as Jack Beckman explains, this didn&#8217;t cause too many issues. As a matter of fact, drag racing was still spreading in popularity and even found itself internationally in Mexico and Italy. But was the future of drag racing for some drivers was threatened by limited availability of nitro methane fuel after a railway car explosion? <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Beckman tells all (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhra.com\/news\/2020\/hot-rod-history-jack-beckman-episode-8-1958-drag-racing-innovation-booms\" target=\"_blank\">Beckman tells all<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1121\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-19-at-2.50.55-PM.png\" alt=\"title card\" class=\"wp-image-39328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-19-at-2.50.55-PM.png 2000w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-19-at-2.50.55-PM-576x323.png 576w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-19-at-2.50.55-PM-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-19-at-2.50.55-PM-992x556.png 992w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" 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\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" 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\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=2537916919804128\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 3<\/a> <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" 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\" aria-label=\" (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\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 5<\/a> <br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=608845629728956\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 6<\/a><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" 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.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>A final structure for NHRA races still hadn&#8217;t yet been set in 1958. But as Jack Beckman explains, this didn&#8217;t cause too many issues. As a matter of fact, drag racing was still spreading in popularity and even found itself internationally in Mexico and Italy. But was the future of drag racing for some drivers was threatened by limited availability of nitro methane fuel after a railway car explosion? Beckman tells all. Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 1Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 2Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":39330,"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-39326","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\/beckmanepisode8feature.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\/39326"}],"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=39326"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44405,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39326\/revisions\/44405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}