{"id":62732,"date":"2022-07-01T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=62732"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:22","slug":"the-dodge-car-nicknamed-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2022\/07\/the-dodge-car-nicknamed-enemy.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dodge Car Nicknamed &#8220;Enemy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ken Riddle has been drawn to a life of drag racing since he was a small boy and his first car, a 1968 Dodge Coronet, set him up for years and years of Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> classics. Riddle has been competing in drag-and-drive competitions for about ten years and has cycled through Plymouth Roadrunners and Dodge Chargers, just to name a few. He found his latest \u201969 Dodge Dart through a friend who raced in the early 2000s, and he has deemed it a work in progress ever since the purchase. Riddle, owner of Kenny\u2019s Exhaust Works in Arizona, says he\u2019s \u201ccontinuously trying to make it faster and more competitive,\u201d and he has handled almost every part of the process himself. So, why did he nickname it Enemy? Find out <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Find out why this \u201969 Dodge Dart has been a handful to restore and race. &nbsp;&nbsp; (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dragzine.com\/features\/car-features\/ken-riddles-1969-dodge-dart-does-double-duty-with-drag-n-drive\/\" target=\"_blank\">why this \u201969 Dodge Dart has been a handful to restore and race<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Riddle has been drawn to a life of drag racing since he was a small boy and his first car, a 1968 Dodge Coronet, set him up for years and years of Mopar\u00ae classics. Riddle has been competing in drag-and-drive competitions for about ten years and has cycled through Plymouth Roadrunners and Dodge Chargers, just to name a few. He found his latest \u201969 Dodge Dart through a friend who raced in the early 2000s, and he has deemed it a work in progress ever since the purchase. Riddle, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":62733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[2948],"class_list":["post-62732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-dodge-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/KenRiddle_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\/62732"}],"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=62732"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62750,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62732\/revisions\/62750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}