{"id":12476,"date":"2018-10-22T03:55:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T03:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=12476"},"modified":"2019-03-05T03:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:58:29","slug":"when-you-love-the-look-of-50-year-old-cars-but-not-the-50-year-old-technology-that-comes-with-themthe-octane-lounge-october-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/when-you-love-the-look-of-50-year-old-cars-but-not-the-50-year-old-technology-that-comes-with-themthe-octane-lounge-october-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"When you love  the look of 50-year-old cars, but not the 50-year-old technology that comes with them<\/br>The Octane Lounge October 22, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12477\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Octane_Lounge_CORVETTE_RESTOMODS-126x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Octane_Lounge_CORVETTE_RESTOMODS-126x300.jpg 126w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Octane_Lounge_CORVETTE_RESTOMODS.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/>Overview<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>Don&#8217;t wait for stories to appear in the store when you can become a member of Wheelbase Media&#8217;s weekly news service and save more than 50 percent while gaining instant access to the new features as they&#8217;re produced. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a> to get started.If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoctanelounge.com\">www.theoctanelounge.com<\/a> to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format.<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Corvettes continue to be among the most desirable collector cars in the marketplace. For years, buyers of these two-seat fiberglass sports cars have valued one thing above all else: originality.<br \/>\nLimited-run high-horsepower Corvettes usually fetch the highest dollars at auction, but whether a Corvette is one of a few L88s built in 1967, or a more garden-variety model, what most collectors have wanted are matching-numbers cars that have all their original parts, from the engine, transmission and rear differential, down to the carburetor(s), alternator and even the hoses . . . and the clamps that hold the hoses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corvettes continue to be among the most desirable collector cars in the marketplace. For years, buyers of these two-seat fiberglass sports cars have valued one thing above all else: originality.  Limited-run high-horsepower Corvettes usually fetch the highest dollars at auction, but whether a Corvette is one of a few L88s built in 1967, or a more garden-variety model, what most collectors have wanted are matching-numbers cars that have all their original parts. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-store-items","category-the-octane-lounge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12478,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12476\/revisions\/12478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}