{"id":1589,"date":"2009-02-16T13:03:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T21:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2009-02-26T13:05:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T21:05:03","slug":"hot-rodders-to-fill-the-grove-at-march-meet-at-auto-club-famoso-raceway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1589","title":{"rendered":"Hot Rodders to Fill the &#8220;Grove&#8221; at March Meet at Auto Club Famoso Raceway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1590\" title=\"march-meet\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2009\/02\/march-meet-150x99.jpg\" alt=\"march-meet\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/march-meet-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/march-meet.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>At the March Meet\u00c2\u00b4s inaugural event in 1959, hot rods were at the heart of drag racing. Fifty-one years later, hot rods are still, well, hot. The March Meet, Mar. 6-8, is still celebrating the timeless connection by inviting all street rods to Auto Club Famoso Raceway for three days of show and competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every year I am amazed at the number of locals and car clubs that come out to be part of the March Meet,&#8221; said Blake Bowser, vice president and general manager of the Kern County Racing Association, operators of Auto Club Famoso and producers of the March Meet. &#8220;We get everything from \u00c2\u00b432 Fords to muscle cars from the 1960s, and everything in-between. Come on Friday to get the best deal &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiachronicle.com\/articles\/view\/91705\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the March Meet\u00c2\u00b4s inaugural event in 1959, hot rods were at the heart of drag racing. Fifty-one years later, hot rods are still, well, hot. The March Meet, Mar. 6-8, is still celebrating the timeless connection by inviting all street rods to Auto Club Famoso Raceway for three days of show and competition. &#8220;Every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589","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=1589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1589\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}