{"id":100849,"date":"2014-11-29T19:48:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T02:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=100849"},"modified":"2014-11-29T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T02:48:21","slug":"drag-racing-legendary-driver-crew-chief-innovator-armstrong-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=100849","title":{"rendered":"Drag Racing &#8211; Legendary driver, crew chief, innovator Armstrong passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Armstrong, whose talents as a driver, tuner, fabricator and innovator rivaled those of drag racing legend \u201cBig Daddy\u201d Don Garlits, died Friday at his home in Temecula, Calif., with his wife, Susie, and their menagerie of rescued dogs and cats by his side. He was 73.<\/p>\n<p>Although he was best known as crew chief to Kenny Bernstein when the Texan won five of his six NHRA championships, Armstrong was much, much more. In fact, he already had completed one successful career before he and Bernstein joined forces in 1982.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhra.com\/story\/story.aspx?F_y=2014&amp;F_m=11&amp;F_d=28&amp;CustomURL=armstrong-passes&amp;AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Armstrong, whose talents as a driver, tuner, fabricator and innovator rivaled those of drag racing legend \u201cBig Daddy\u201d Don Garlits, died Friday at his home in Temecula, Calif., with his wife, Susie, and their menagerie of rescued dogs and cats by his side. He was 73. Although he was best known as crew chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100850,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100849\/revisions\/100850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}