{"id":77511,"date":"2024-03-18T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=77511"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:19:14","slug":"this-show-stopper-has-a-surprise-under-the-hood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/showcase\/2024\/03\/this-show-stopper-has-a-surprise-under-the-hood.html","title":{"rendered":"This Show-Stopper Has a Surprise Under the Hood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rich and Karen Mehas are the proud owners of a Grand National Roadster show class-winning 1966 Dodge Coronet. Despite its track-like appearance, it is primarily used on the street rather than at the dragstrip. LP Racing shop handled the fabrication of the suspension, including a state-of-the-art setup for control under power, on the originally neglected project car. They also added, among other things, a 540-cubic-inch Wedge engine and twin Precision GT4788 turbochargers that make the car capable of more than 2,000 horsepower. Body modifications, a custom paint job and interior upgrades were done by Speedway Customs and Ron Mangus. 78-year-old Rich Mehas is ready to let someone else enjoy it, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dragzine.com\/features\/car-features\/looking-for-a-2000-horsepower-coronet-for-the-street-and-strip\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dragzine.com\/features\/car-features\/looking-for-a-2000-horsepower-coronet-for-the-street-and-strip\/\" target=\"_blank\">the powerhouse restomod 1966 Dodge Coronet is listed for sale.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo credit: <\/em>Steve Baur | Dragzine.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Disclaimer: This editorial article contains information and links to a third-party site. We can\u2019t guarantee 100% accuracy (we do our best) or vouch for their other site content (nobody\u2019s perfect) outside of this link. Let us know in the comments if there\u2019s something you think we need to review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rich and Karen Mehas are the proud owners of a Grand National Roadster show class-winning 1966 Dodge Coronet. Despite its track-like appearance, it is primarily used on the street rather than at the dragstrip. LP Racing shop handled the fabrication of the suspension, including a state-of-the-art setup for control under power, on the originally neglected project car. They also added, among other things, a 540-cubic-inch Wedge engine and twin Precision GT4788 turbochargers that make the car capable of more than 2,000 horsepower. Body modifications, a custom paint job and interior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":77536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[2948,528,2227],"class_list":["post-77511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showcase","tag-dodge-classics","tag-drag-racing","tag-mods"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CoronetStreetStrip_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/CoronetStreetStrip_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\/77511"}],"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=77511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77740,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77511\/revisions\/77740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}