{"id":81684,"date":"2024-10-01T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=81684"},"modified":"2024-10-01T08:57:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T12:57:43","slug":"forgotten-treasure-1969-dodge-charger-r-t-found-with-rare-hemi-engine-setup-in-barn-find-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/heritage\/2024\/10\/forgotten-treasure-1969-dodge-charger-r-t-found-with-rare-hemi-engine-setup-in-barn-find-dream.html","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Treasure: 1969 Dodge Charger R\/T Found with Rare HEMI<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Engine Setup in Barn Find Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, automotive legends aren\u2019t found on the showroom floor but buried in the forgotten corners of history. Such is the case with a rare 1969 Dodge Charger R\/T that came as a surprise package with a house purchase. Equipped with the legendary 426 HEMI<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> V8 engine, this barn-find beauty is a gearhead&#8217;s dream come true. With its untouched body and powerful engine setup, this Charger embodies the spirit of Dodge&#8217;s muscle car era \u2014 bold, raw and ready to roar back to life. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/it-came-with-the-house-1969-dodge-charger-r-t-packs-rare-hemi-setup-240077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A rare gem like this doesn\u2019t just get discovered, it gets resurrected<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo credit: Ciprian Florea | autoevolution.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>Sometimes, automotive legends aren\u2019t found on the showroom floor but buried in the forgotten corners of history. Such is the case with a rare 1969 Dodge Charger R\/T that came as a surprise package with a house purchase. Equipped with the legendary 426 HEMI\u00ae V8 engine, this barn-find beauty is a gearhead&#8217;s dream come true. With its untouched body and powerful engine setup, this Charger embodies the spirit of Dodge&#8217;s muscle car era \u2014 bold, raw and ready to roar back to life. A rare gem like this doesn\u2019t just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":81688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2622],"tags":[519,2948],"class_list":["post-81684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heritage","tag-charger","tag-dodge-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ForgottenTreasure_Feature.jpg","social_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/ForgottenTreasure_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\/81684"}],"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=81684"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81698,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81684\/revisions\/81698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}