{"id":55038,"date":"2011-10-08T12:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T19:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55038"},"modified":"2011-10-08T12:01:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T19:01:32","slug":"how-a-nascar-driver-set-28-speed-records-with-a-banned-car-and-lots-of-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=55038","title":{"rendered":"How a NASCAR driver set 28 speed records with a banned car and lots of beer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1971, NASCAR banned Chrysler&#8217;s winged cars, forcing teams like Bobby Isaac&#8217;s K&amp;K to park their fastest rides. K&amp;K owner Nord Krauskopf decided to take the team&#8217;s Charger Daytona to Bonneville for one last romp. They&#8217;d end up setting 28 world records.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!-- %JUMP:More &raquo;% -->They arrived at the Flats on September 12th, with a few others in tow. An engineer from Chrysler, George Wallace, used vacation time to be there. There was also a USAC official named Joe Petrali.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The entourage spanned a tarp between their trucks for a makeshift garage on the Flats. They drilled holes in the salt with a power drill and stuck in doweled markers to lay out a course\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5847047\/how-a-nascar-driver-set-28-speed-records-with-a-banned-car-and-lots-of-beer\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and 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 1971, NASCAR banned Chrysler&#8217;s winged cars, forcing teams like Bobby Isaac&#8217;s K&amp;K to park their fastest rides. K&amp;K owner Nord Krauskopf decided to take the team&#8217;s Charger Daytona to Bonneville for one last romp. They&#8217;d end up setting 28 world records. They arrived at the Flats on September 12th, with a few others in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038","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=55038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55039,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55038\/revisions\/55039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}