{"id":43,"date":"2001-02-07T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2001-02-07T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=43"},"modified":"2001-02-07T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2001-02-07T08:05:00","slug":"43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m addicted to cars; I&#8217;m convinced.  Somehow after the engine swap experience last summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.ncsu.edu:8030\/~mesuffer\/twinkie.html\">Twinkie<\/a> is never going to be enough.  I&#8217;m seriously contemplating checking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classifieds2000.com\/cgi-cls\/ad.exe?P61+C14+A0+R1104065+Q357631978\">this<\/a> out in a few weekends&#8217; time.  It has a lot of advantages:<\/p>\n<p>1.  Real back seat<br \/>\n2.  Real trunk<br \/>\n3.  Decent-looking<br \/>\n4.  No need to worry about pesky emissions testing<br \/>\n5.  Rotary engine<br \/>\n6.  Rear-wheel drive<br \/>\n7.  Excellent hot rod and sleeper potential<\/p>\n<p>It guess it depends what &#8220;needs resto&#8221; means.  I&#8217;m not intimidated by mechanical issues.  It would certainly be a lot more practical than <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.ncsu.edu:8030\/~mesuffer\/rx7.html\">my RX-7<\/a> would have been, if I hadn&#8217;t sold it after it blew an apex seal (rather critical failure of a rotary engine).  We&#8217;ll see.  I hope so, but it&#8217;s going to take some convincing of my parents that my priorties are indeed back in order and it won&#8217;t suck up my time and money like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.ncsu.edu:8030\/~mesuffer\/rx7.html\">red car<\/a> did.  I wish I could make a living being a mechanic.  I really do enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m addicted to cars; I&#8217;m convinced. Somehow after the engine swap experience last summer, Twinkie is never going to be enough. I&#8217;m seriously contemplating checking this out in a few weekends&#8217; time. It has a lot of advantages: 1. Real back seat 2. Real trunk 3. Decent-looking 4. No need to worry about pesky emissions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}