{"id":40067,"date":"2020-07-06T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=40067"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:22:41","slug":"jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2020\/07\/jack-beckmans-hot-rod-history-a-quarter-mile-at-a-time-episode-9.html","title":{"rendered":"Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History a Quarter-Mile at a Time \u2013 Episode 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>1959 was an important and jam-packed year for drag racing. For starters, it was the 10th year of drag racing being an organized, legitimized sport and it was still proving to be successful. Car clubs were encouraged in the community by the NHRA and they were quickly growing in numbers, reaching over 800 within the year. The NHRA Nationals made their way to Detroit Dragway and the competition was fierce.<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Jack Beckman explains (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=1616891518496530\" target=\"_blank\"> Jack Beckman explains<\/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.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\" 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\" aria-label=\"Jack Beckman's Hot Rod History: Episode 8 (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-8.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman&#8217;s 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-10.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Beckman&#8217;s Hot Rod History: Episode 10<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1959 was an important and jam-packed year for drag racing. For starters, it was the 10th year of drag racing being an organized, legitimized sport and it was still proving to be successful. Car clubs were encouraged in the community by the NHRA and they were quickly growing in numbers, reaching over 800 within the year. The NHRA Nationals made their way to Detroit Dragway and the competition was fierce. Jack Beckman explains. Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 1Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: Episode 2Jack Beckman\u2019s Hot Rod History: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":40072,"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-40067","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\/07\/beckmanepisode9feature.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\/40067"}],"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=40067"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44406,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40067\/revisions\/44406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}