{"id":47998,"date":"2021-01-28T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T17:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=47998"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:21:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:21:37","slug":"do-you-know-your-funny-car-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2021\/01\/do-you-know-your-funny-car-history.html","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know Your Funny Car History?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first Dodge Chargers in 1966-1967 put out an impressive 425 horsepower; impressive for that time at least. The current Chargers that run in the NHRA put out a massive 11,000 horsepower. We guess you could say that&#8217;s so much power that it&#8217;s not even &#8230; <em>funny<\/em>! But anyway, that jump didn&#8217;t happen over night. See what it took for one of the most beloved muscle cars to get where it is today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/funnycarhistory1-992x456.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"456\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/funnycarhistory1-992x456.png\" alt=\"Classic funny car\" data-id=\"48002\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=48002\" class=\"wp-image-48002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/funnycarhistory1-992x456.png 992w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/funnycarhistory1-576x265.png 576w, 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The current Chargers that run in the NHRA put out a massive 11,000 horsepower. We guess you could say that&#8217;s so much power that it&#8217;s not even &#8230; funny! But anyway, that jump didn&#8217;t happen over night. See what it took for one of the most beloved muscle cars to get where it is today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":48001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2621,575],"tags":[615],"class_list":["post-47998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-racing","tag-nhra"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/funnycarhistoryfeature.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\/47998"}],"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=47998"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59157,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998\/revisions\/59157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}