{"id":74433,"date":"2023-11-13T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=74433"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:22","slug":"mike-cottens-71-cuda-makes-its-nhra-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/owners-clubs\/2023\/11\/mike-cottens-71-cuda-makes-its-nhra-debut.html","title":{"rendered":"Mike Cotten&#8217;s \u201971 \u2019Cuda Makes it\u2019s NHRA Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Veteran sportsman drag racer Mike Cotten surprised many by unveiling a 1971 Plymouth Barracuda at the NHRA US Nationals in Indianapolis. He\u2019d been racing a \u201970 Barracuda in the Super Stock class since 2005 and his new ride earned him the Best Appearing Car award. The &#8217;71 \u2019Cuda has a unique history, changing hands for over 15 years before it ended up with him. Cotton wasted no time making the vehicle his own, utilizing experts at shops across the country. The now heavily modified, custom &#8217;71 \u2019Cuda represents a new challenge for Cotten, one that he seems to welcome with open arms, and he has big plans for its next season. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dragzine.com\/features\/car-features\/mike-cotten-debuts-head-turning-new-71-barracuda-super-stocker\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dragzine.com\/features\/car-features\/mike-cotten-debuts-head-turning-new-71-barracuda-super-stocker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Cotten&#8217;s surprise unveiling of a 1971 Plymouth Barracuda was a highlight of the 2023 NHRA US Nationals.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran sportsman drag racer Mike Cotten surprised many by unveiling a 1971 Plymouth Barracuda at the NHRA US Nationals in Indianapolis. He\u2019d been racing a \u201970 Barracuda in the Super Stock class since 2005 and his new ride earned him the Best Appearing Car award. The &#8217;71 \u2019Cuda has a unique history, changing hands for over 15 years before it ended up with him. Cotton wasted no time making the vehicle his own, utilizing experts at shops across the country. The now heavily modified, custom &#8217;71 \u2019Cuda represents a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":74436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2624],"tags":[528,615,2949],"class_list":["post-74433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-owners-clubs","tag-drag-racing","tag-nhra","tag-plymouth-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MikeCotten71Barracuda_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MikeCotten71Barracuda_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\/74433"}],"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=74433"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77847,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74433\/revisions\/77847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}