{"id":68593,"date":"2023-02-18T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=68593"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:54","slug":"meet-the-prospector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2023\/02\/meet-the-prospector.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Prospector"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s not too often that we catch a vehicle on the drag strip that\u2019s almost 85 years old. But Bob Larson spent the better part of seven years working on this 1938 Dodge Coupe so you better believe that he\u2019s going to show it off. Larson restored his first car when he was in high school and has been tinkering on automotive projects of all sizes ever since. He eventually opened his own shop, Old Guy Hot Rods, and developed a specialty for vehicles that shine at the track. After Larson\u2019s first time at Hot Rod Drag Week, he decided he needed his own project car for drag-and-drive events and he had one in mind. \u201cI bought this car 30 years ago and started collecting parts for it\u2026 I worked on my customers\u2019 cars during the week and messed with this car on the weekends, that\u2019s why it took so long to build,\u201d Larson says. The end result? <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Prospector is a \u201938 Dodge Coupe that doubles as a daily driver and a drag strip player. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.streetmusclemag.com\/features\/car-features\/the-prospector-bob-larsons-totally-rad-1938-dodge-coupe\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Prospector is a \u201938 Dodge Coupe that doubles as a daily driver and a drag strip player.<\/a> We love running into Larson and his one-of-a-kind Coupe on the road! Let us know in the comments if you&#8217;ve ever caught the Prospector in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not too often that we catch a vehicle on the drag strip that\u2019s almost 85 years old. But Bob Larson spent the better part of seven years working on this 1938 Dodge Coupe so you better believe that he\u2019s going to show it off. Larson restored his first car when he was in high school and has been tinkering on automotive projects of all sizes ever since. He eventually opened his own shop, Old Guy Hot Rods, and developed a specialty for vehicles that shine at the track. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":68639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[2948,561],"class_list":["post-68593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-dodge-classics","tag-restomod"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Prospector_Feature.png","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Prospector_Social.png","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68593"}],"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=68593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68641,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68593\/revisions\/68641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}