{"id":60930,"date":"2022-04-08T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=60930"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:39","slug":"the-couple-that-races-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/04\/the-couple-that-races-together.html","title":{"rendered":"The Couple that Races Together&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robert owns a 2013 Dodge Challenger SRT8<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> and a 1970 Dodge Challenger T\/A Six Pack, so when he and his girlfriend needed to sort out their business \u2013 they did it side by side at the track. The 2013 Challenger has a 6.1-liter HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> V8 engine that puts out 425 horsepower while the \u201970 Challenger was rated at 350 horsepower and is sporting a set of W2 heads and a small roller cam. The modern corner greatly outweighs and outpowers its vintage counterpart at least on paper, but how will it compete? Robert drives the T\/A and his girlfriend, who had never been on the track prior to this showdown, is in the SRT8. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Find out which Challenger prevails when this couple competes in six rounds at the track. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.topspeed.com\/cars\/car-news\/couple-settles-things-out-on-the-drag-strip-girlfriend-challenges-her-boyfriend-in-his-old-school-muscle-car-ar195384.html\" target=\"_blank\">Find out which Challenger prevails when this couple goes head to head in six rounds at the track.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"Couple Faces off on the Race Track\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rs2KOWkydtU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\">&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert owns a 2013 Dodge Challenger SRT8\u00ae and a 1970 Dodge Challenger T\/A Six Pack, so when he and his girlfriend needed to sort out their business \u2013 they did it side by side at the track. The 2013 Challenger has a 6.1-liter HEMI\u00ae V8 engine that puts out 425 horsepower while the \u201970 Challenger was rated at 350 horsepower and is sporting a set of W2 heads and a small roller cam. The modern corner greatly outweighs and outpowers its vintage counterpart at least on paper, but how will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":60935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,1921],"tags":[526,528],"class_list":["post-60930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","category-video","tag-challenger","tag-drag-racing"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CoupleSettlesOnDragStrip_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\/60930"}],"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=60930"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60940,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60930\/revisions\/60940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}