{"id":47879,"date":"2011-04-14T06:18:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47879"},"modified":"2011-04-14T06:18:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T13:18:40","slug":"cadillac-%e2%80%93-don%e2%80%99t-call-it-%e2%80%9cstandard-of-the-world%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=47879","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Call it \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Standard of the World\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the years just before and after World War II, a Cadillac was one of the best performance cars on the market. By 1950, they were so good that a very lightly modified stock Cadillac finished in 10th place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, humbling many more exotic cars, and deeply impressing the Europeans. Cadillac engines appeared in European performance cars like the Allard. Cadillac cars were advertised as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Standard Of The World,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a defensible claim.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the mid-\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc60s, Car &amp; Driver Magazine tested and ranked\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportscardigest.com\/cadillac-dont-call-it-standard-of-the-world\/?awt_l=POqMg&amp;awt_m=1aN9QlhiCus.C0\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/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>In the years just before and after World War II, a Cadillac was one of the best performance cars on the market. By 1950, they were so good that a very lightly modified stock Cadillac finished in 10th place at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, humbling many more exotic cars, and deeply impressing the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47879","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=47879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47880,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47879\/revisions\/47880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}