{"id":1270,"date":"2009-02-11T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T05:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2009-02-26T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T05:57:50","slug":"two-stroke-sparks-fond-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"Two-stroke sparks fond memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1271\" title=\"saab\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/saab-150x104.jpg\" alt=\"saab\" width=\"150\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/saab-150x104.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/saab.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Saab 96 two-stroke singing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watching and, more importantly, listening to the above-titled YouTube video clip of a mid-60s Saab 96 rally car tackling a gravel stage in snarling snap-crackle-and-popping fury is a better introduction to the charm of these feisty little Swedish cars than I can manage with mere words.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds and smells often take a back seat to the visuals that can pop up unexpectedly on memory&#8217;s monitor. But when they&#8217;re triggered, they can transport you back in time with an astonishing degree of intensity.<\/p>\n<p>A V-12 Matra Formula One car on a misty long-ago Mosport morning. The smell of Castrol R &#8220;bean oil&#8221; cooking off a Manx Norton single that&#8217;s being rhythmically revved to warm it up in a racetrack paddock and emitting a ripple of crisp-edged thuds on the way up and a unique twitter on the way down. These are just two memories that come readily to mind&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/auto.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090212.whEnthusiast0212\/GAStory\/specialGlobeAuto\/home\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Saab 96 two-stroke singing.&#8221; Watching and, more importantly, listening to the above-titled YouTube video clip of a mid-60s Saab 96 rally car tackling a gravel stage in snarling snap-crackle-and-popping fury is a better introduction to the charm of these feisty little Swedish cars than I can manage with mere words. Sounds and smells often take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}