{"id":65612,"date":"2022-10-14T16:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-14T20:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=65612"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:16","slug":"the-real-hero-in-vanishing-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/showcase\/2022\/10\/the-real-hero-in-vanishing-point.html","title":{"rendered":"The Real Hero in Vanishing Point"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Vanishing Point<\/em>, starring Barry Newman, was released in 1971 and features a 1970 Dodge Challenger R\/T that one could argue made the movie. Chaos ensues as our lead tries to make it from Denver, Colorado, to San Francisco, California, in just fifteen hours in the Challenger \u2013 a drive that takes roughly 19 hours even today. There are likely lots of things you don\u2019t know about the making of the film, and just as many that you don\u2019t know about the famous white Challenger. Our personal favorite is that five Challengers were used in the making of the film, borrowed by the studio at the steep price of $1 per day. Here are <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hotcars.com\/what-people-dont-know-about-white-dodge-challenger-vanishing-point\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 little-known things about <em>Vanishing Point<\/em>\u2019s \u201970 Dodge Challenger<\/a>. But beware if you haven\u2019t seen the film, the article has spoilers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanishing Point, starring Barry Newman, was released in 1971 and features a 1970 Dodge Challenger R\/T that one could argue made the movie. Chaos ensues as our lead tries to make it from Denver, Colorado, to San Francisco, California, in just fifteen hours in the Challenger \u2013 a drive that takes roughly 19 hours even today. There are likely lots of things you don\u2019t know about the making of the film, and just as many that you don\u2019t know about the famous white Challenger. Our personal favorite is that five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":65613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[2948],"class_list":["post-65612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showcase","tag-dodge-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/vanishing-point.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\/65612"}],"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=65612"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65619,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65612\/revisions\/65619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}