{"id":66624,"date":"2022-11-21T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=66624"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:13","slug":"herb-mccandless-drag-racing-living-history-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/racing\/2022\/11\/herb-mccandless-drag-racing-living-history-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Herb McCandless &#8211; Drag Racing Living History: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We hope you\u2019ve had a chance to catch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news\/article\/racing\/2022\/11\/herb-mccandless-drag-racing-living-history-part-1.html\">episode one of \u2018Born to Win &#8211; A Documentary on the Life of Herb McCandless.\u201d<\/a> By sharing his experiences of racing HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> engine-powered Plymouth Super Stockers to the winner\u2019s circle starting during the mid-1960s, Herb took us back in time to the early years of drag racing. As the 1960s ramped-up and morphed into the early 1970s, so did the horsepower battles on the drag strips across the USA. Detroit\u2019s automakers went to war for racing supremacy and began promoting the &#8220;Win on Sunday&#8221; philosophy among muscle car buyers. The on-track competition was severe and racing politics among the manufacturers was so intense, NHRA had to create the new Pro Stock class for 1970. It was a phone call from Buddy Martin in May of 1970 that would change Herb\u2019s life and the sport of drag racing forever. So, check out episode two and you\u2019ll learn some history and even a few drag racing tricks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"Herb McCandless - Drag Racing Living History: Part 1\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/53bDsX9MOew\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\">&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope you\u2019ve had a chance to catch episode one of \u2018Born to Win &#8211; A Documentary on the Life of Herb McCandless.\u201d By sharing his experiences of racing HEMI\u00ae engine-powered Plymouth Super Stockers to the winner\u2019s circle starting during the mid-1960s, Herb took us back in time to the early years of drag racing. As the 1960s ramped-up and morphed into the early 1970s, so did the horsepower battles on the drag strips across the USA. Detroit\u2019s automakers went to war for racing supremacy and began promoting the &#8220;Win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":66629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,1921],"tags":[528],"class_list":["post-66624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","category-video","tag-drag-racing"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/McCandlessP2_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/McCandlessP2_Social.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\/66624"}],"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=66624"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66663,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66624\/revisions\/66663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}