{"id":58994,"date":"2022-01-26T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=58994"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:44","slug":"this-hot-rod-commands-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2022\/01\/this-hot-rod-commands-attention.html","title":{"rendered":"This Hot Rod Commands Attention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mike Krauchick has an eye for spotting a diamond in the rough. It takes a certain person to see a run-down old car that most people would sell for scrap and envision a new project car worth putting the time and, more importantly, the money into. In 1971, while driving in his hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Mike spotted a &#8217;62 Dodge Polara sitting on blocks and in pretty rough shape. After inquiring about the car, the owner threw out a price of $75 and Mike jumped at the opportunity to make this project his new drag car. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"This 60 year old car looks anything but old and quite frankly has us drooling! (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dragzine.com\/features\/car-features\/this-62-polara-was-saved-from-the-junkyard-to-become-this-stunner\/\" target=\"_blank\">This 60-year-old car looks anything but old and, quite frankly, has us drooling!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Krauchick has an eye for spotting a diamond in the rough. It takes a certain person to see a run-down old car that most people would sell for scrap and envision a new project car worth putting the time and, more importantly, the money into. In 1971, while driving in his hometown of Allentown, Pennsylvania, Mike spotted a &#8217;62 Dodge Polara sitting on blocks and in pretty rough shape. After inquiring about the car, the owner threw out a price of $75 and Mike jumped at the opportunity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":58996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[2227],"class_list":["post-58994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-mods"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1962Polara500_Feature.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58994"}],"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=58994"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59015,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58994\/revisions\/59015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}