{"id":65677,"date":"2022-10-19T19:51:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T23:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=65677"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:15","slug":"its-neck-and-neck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/10\/its-neck-and-neck.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Neck and Neck!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been over 50 years since muscle cars were introduced to the industry and there\u2019s no question that they\u2019re still highly sought after today. Why? Because they have a classic look, a durable build and, usually, a powerhouse of an engine even by today\u2019s standards. The 1971 AMC Hornet is often overlooked when we\u2019re remembering our Dodge or Plymouth favorites of the decade, but you might be surprised by the results when it\u2019s up against the one-year-older 1970 Dodge Challenger on the drag strip. Watch as the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"\u201970 AMC Hornet races a \u201970 Dodge Challenger (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/1970-dodge-challenger-drag-races-1971-amc-hornet-it-s-closer-than-you-think-200836.html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201971 AMC Hornet races a \u201970 Dodge Challenger<\/a> below and let us know in the comments if you expected it to go that way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"71 Hornet against a 70 Challenger\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wYan1kgdDME\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\">&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been over 50 years since muscle cars were introduced to the industry and there\u2019s no question that they\u2019re still highly sought after today. Why? Because they have a classic look, a durable build and, usually, a powerhouse of an engine even by today\u2019s standards. The 1971 AMC Hornet is often overlooked when we\u2019re remembering our Dodge or Plymouth favorites of the decade, but you might be surprised by the results when it\u2019s up against the one-year-older 1970 Dodge Challenger on the drag strip. Watch as the \u201971 AMC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":65679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,1921],"tags":[2948,674],"class_list":["post-65677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","category-video","tag-dodge-classics","tag-racing"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1970-dodge-challenger-drag-races-1971-amc-hornet-it-s-closer-than-you-think-200836_1.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\/65677"}],"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=65677"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65681,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65677\/revisions\/65681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}