{"id":113467,"date":"2015-12-17T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T04:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=113467"},"modified":"2015-12-17T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T04:39:12","slug":"video-rear-engine-mini-truck-madness-roadkill-ep-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=113467","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Rear-Engine Mini-Truck Madness! Roadkill Ep. 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time around, Freiburger and Finnegan travel to Santa Rosa, California, to drive a crazy &#8217;74 Mazda REPU mini-truck all the way back to SoCal, where they&#8217;ll compete in Optima&#8217;s Search for the Ultimate Street Car Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Mazda is an oddity, originally powered by a rotary engine but later converted to Olds Toronado front-wheel drive drivetrain sometime in the late-1980s. With a 455ci big-block and &#8217;69 Toronado transaxle slid between the rear frame rails, the seller claimed wheelies and 10-second ETs. However, Finnegan and Freiburger quickly discover their $5,000 mini-truck has more style than substance. Can they hang with the big dogs at the races?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XuHIemMF4kY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time around, Freiburger and Finnegan travel to Santa Rosa, California, to drive a crazy &#8217;74 Mazda REPU mini-truck all the way back to SoCal, where they&#8217;ll compete in Optima&#8217;s Search for the Ultimate Street Car Challenge. The Mazda is an oddity, originally powered by a rotary engine but later converted to Olds Toronado front-wheel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,7,80,25,67,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autocross","category-automobile","category-hot-rods-customs","category-sports-car","category-trucks","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113467","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=113467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113468,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113467\/revisions\/113468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}