{"id":73901,"date":"2023-10-18T13:39:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T17:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=73901"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:23","slug":"the-crop-dusters-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/showcase\/2023\/10\/the-crop-dusters-journey.html","title":{"rendered":"The Crop Duster&#8217;s Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Roadkill Garage\u2019s Steve Dulcich and David Freiburger originally turned this rescued 1970 Plymouth Duster, lovingly christened \u201cCrop Duster\u201d, into a racing machine by adding a 440 V8 and gearing. With its new engine and full makeover, the \u201970 Plymouth ran a 10.34 at 129.4 mph. Now, due to neighbors complaining and, well, age, Freiburger aims to make it quieter and more drivable. In this episode of Roadkill Garage, they\u2019re getting under the hood &#8211; and removing it to try to fix the hood gap. \u201cInstead of pushing it more into the race car world, I\u2019m going to back it down into the streetcar world,\u201d Frieburger explains. Watch the episode below to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"find out if this restored 1970 Plymouth Duster will retire its racing cap for the life of a daily driver.  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OErtUMbDOo0\" target=\"_blank\">find out if this restored 1970 Plymouth Duster will retire its racing cap for the life of a daily driver. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\"><iframe title=\"Roadkill Garage Ep 95\" class=\"embed-responsive-item\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OErtUMbDOo0?si=o4dADvqDfAM4PrJE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\">&gt;<\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roadkill Garage\u2019s Steve Dulcich and David Freiburger originally turned this rescued 1970 Plymouth Duster, lovingly christened \u201cCrop Duster\u201d, into a racing machine by adding a 440 V8 and gearing. With its new engine and full makeover, the \u201970 Plymouth ran a 10.34 at 129.4 mph. Now, due to neighbors complaining and, well, age, Freiburger aims to make it quieter and more drivable. In this episode of Roadkill Garage, they\u2019re getting under the hood &#8211; and removing it to try to fix the hood gap. \u201cInstead of pushing it more into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":73903,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638,1921],"tags":[2227],"class_list":["post-73901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showcase","category-video","tag-mods"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/RoadkillGarageCropDuster_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/RoadkillGarageCropDuster_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\/73901"}],"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=73901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73907,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73901\/revisions\/73907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}