{"id":40056,"date":"2010-11-09T21:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40056"},"modified":"2010-11-09T21:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T04:47:41","slug":"2011-porsche-911-speedster-first-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=40056","title":{"rendered":"2011 Porsche 911 Speedster First Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40057\" title=\"2011-porsche-speedster\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/11\/2011-porsche-speedster.bmp\" alt=\"2011-porsche-speedster\" \/>Raised From the Dead Once More, but Can It Be Worth $204,000?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The story of the 2011 Porsche 911 Speedster goes back well over a half century, although the legend took only a matter of months to establish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Conceived in 1954 by Max Hoffman, Porsche&#8217;s distributor in the U.S., as a stripped-down, bargain-price version of the Porsche 356, one of the\u00c2\u00a0 first examples was purchased shortly after the car&#8217;s debut on September 1 for $4,000 by James Dean, an aspiring young actor. He went racing with it, and when he died in a traffic accident only a year later in a Porsche 550 Spyder, the Speedster achieved mythic proportions in the popular consciousness\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideline.com\/porsche\/911\/2011\/2011-porsche-911-speedster-first-drive.html\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raised From the Dead Once More, but Can It Be Worth $204,000? The story of the 2011 Porsche 911 Speedster goes back well over a half century, although the legend took only a matter of months to establish. Conceived in 1954 by Max Hoffman, Porsche&#8217;s distributor in the U.S., as a stripped-down, bargain-price version of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056","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=40056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40059,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40056\/revisions\/40059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}