{"id":71225,"date":"2023-07-06T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=71225"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:47","slug":"history-repeats-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2023\/07\/history-repeats-itself.html","title":{"rendered":"History Repeats Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Sokola remembers where his love for Mopar<sub>\u00ae<\/sub> muscle began, despite his grandfather\u2019s collection of classic Chevy vehicles. When he was a child, his neighbor\u2019s mom had a four-door Coronet that she\u2019d drive them to school in. It was the late \u201970s, so the mid-size B-body was not in popular demand. While that memory stands out to Sokola, it was the beat-up dark green \u201968 Dodge Super Bee that his friend drove that got him hooked. He learned how to drive a four-speed and started buying, fixing and reselling to try to move up in the collector car world. Find out how <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Joe Sokola ended up with a 1968 HEMI Dodge Super Bee of his own \u2013 the dream car that he didn\u2019t really know he was looking for. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oldcarsweekly.com\/features\/car-of-the-week-1968-dodge-super-bee-hemi\" target=\"_blank\"> Joe Sokola ended up with a 1968 HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Dodge Super Bee of his own \u2013 the dream car that he didn\u2019t really know he was looking for.<\/a> Let us know in the comments if you remember the first car you fell in love with!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Sokola remembers where his love for Mopar\u00ae muscle began, despite his grandfather\u2019s collection of classic Chevy vehicles. When he was a child, his neighbor\u2019s mom had a four-door Coronet that she\u2019d drive them to school in. It was the late \u201970s, so the mid-size B-body was not in popular demand. While that memory stands out to Sokola, it was the beat-up dark green \u201968 Dodge Super Bee that his friend drove that got him hooked. He learned how to drive a four-speed and started buying, fixing and reselling to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":71260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[2948],"class_list":["post-71225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-dodge-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":false,"social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/CaroftheWeek_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\/71225"}],"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=71225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71271,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71225\/revisions\/71271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}