{"id":121544,"date":"2016-08-16T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T02:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121544"},"modified":"2016-08-16T19:31:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T02:31:04","slug":"66-year-old-racer-danny-thompson-sets-land-speed-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=121544","title":{"rendered":"LSR Video &#8211; 66-year-old racer Danny Thompson sets land speed record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fast father, fast son.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Thompson, son of American racing legend Mickey Thompson, has set a land speed record at age 66. And it was a long time coming.<\/p>\n<p>In 1960, Mickey hit Utah\u2019s Bonneville Salt Flats in a streamlined car called Challenger that was built to set a land-speed record. And it did. Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>He made a single 406.6 mph pass\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/leisure\/2016\/08\/15\/66-year-old-racer-danny-thompson-sets-land-speed-record\/#.V7JKGSJSuZ0.email\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mickey Thompson Breaks 400 MPH Speed Barrier &#8211; 1960<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cv9c5M22fDQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Danny Thompson 402mph Run Dash Cam &#8211; Sunday, August 14, 2016<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5a8vwyNo5gQ?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast father, fast son. Danny Thompson, son of American racing legend Mickey Thompson, has set a land speed record at age 66. And it was a long time coming. In 1960, Mickey hit Utah\u2019s Bonneville Salt Flats in a streamlined car called Challenger that was built to set a land-speed record. And it did. Sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,19,80,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-hot-rods-customs","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121544","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=121544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121547,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121544\/revisions\/121547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}