{"id":6846,"date":"2014-09-29T19:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T19:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2015-01-13T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T17:19:10","slug":"don-garlits-legends-sept-29-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/don-garlits-legends-sept-29-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Garlits<\/br>Legends Sept 29, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Legends_GARLITS-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6850\" src=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Legends_GARLITS-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled-36.indd\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Legends_GARLITS-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Legends_GARLITS-1.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>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.<br \/>\nClick <a href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">here<\/a> to get started.<\/p>\n<p>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>Whether it was one of his countless speed milestones, 140-plus event wins or 17 championships in drag racing&#8217;s most prominent &#8211; and dangerous &#8211; series, Don &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Garlits was a pioneer, a competitor and an entrepeneur all wrapped up in one body. What he lacked in money during the early days of his career in the 1950&#8217;s he more than made up for with ingenuity and surgeon-like detail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a style=\"font-size: 1.5em; text-align: right;\" title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"http:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/contact-us\/\">Please contact us to order this feature.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it was one of his countless speed milestones, 140-plus event wins or 17 championships in drag racing&#8217;s most prominent &#8211; and dangerous &#8211; series, Don &#8220;Big Daddy&#8221; Garlits was a pioneer, a competitor and an entrepeneur all wrapped up in one body. What he lacked in money during the early days of his career in the 1950&#8217;s he more than made up for with ingenuity and surgeon-like detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legends","category-store-items"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","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=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wheelbase.ws\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}