{"id":68903,"date":"2023-03-05T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T15:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=68903"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:53","slug":"merica-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2023\/03\/merica-baby.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Merica, Baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There\u2019s nothing we love more than seeing red, white and blue flying down the drag strip. Buddy Dickerson and his kids, Madison and Cameron, are often spotted at the track in the greater St. Louis area. Dickerson races at Nostalgia Drag Racing League events in one of his two first-generation Dodge Chargers. He has rebuilt this 1966 Dodge Charger, the seventh off the assembly line, many times and stripped it down to 3,250 pounds \u2013 including the driver. That\u2019s almost 1,000 pounds less than his second Charger and daily driver. The Charger has a 493-cubic-inch engine with a combination of impressive modifications assembled by well-known shops in the area. Dickerson, a proud patriot, says the familiar paint scheme was inspired by a recent trip to visit Pearl Harbor and more specifically by the USS Arizona. Dickerson is still working on his <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"All-American \u201966 Dodge Charger (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dragzine.com\/features\/one-rare-1966-dodge-charger-in-patriotic-racing-form\/\" target=\"_blank\">All-American \u201966 Dodge Charger<\/a> to shave some time off his e.t., but in the meantime is running well and having fun with it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing we love more than seeing red, white and blue flying down the drag strip. Buddy Dickerson and his kids, Madison and Cameron, are often spotted at the track in the greater St. Louis area. Dickerson races at Nostalgia Drag Racing League events in one of his two first-generation Dodge Chargers. He has rebuilt this 1966 Dodge Charger, the seventh off the assembly line, many times and stripped it down to 3,250 pounds \u2013 including the driver. That\u2019s almost 1,000 pounds less than his second Charger and daily driver. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":68905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[2948,528],"class_list":["post-68903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-dodge-classics","tag-drag-racing"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PatrioticCharger_Feature.png","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/PatrioticCharger_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\/68903"}],"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=68903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68913,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68903\/revisions\/68913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}