{"id":70255,"date":"2012-09-25T12:43:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70255"},"modified":"2012-09-25T12:43:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T19:43:51","slug":"nascar-haulers-become-teams-home-away-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=70255","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR &#8211; Haulers become teams&#8217; home away from home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hershel McGriff remembers when it wasn&#8217;t that unusual to drive the car to the track, tape up the headlights, race 500 miles and if you didn&#8217;t wreck it or blow the engine, drive it home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">McGriff did that in 1950, when he drove cross-country from his home in Portland, Ore., to compete in the inaugural Southern 500 at Darlington, S.C. He finished ninth in the race, and photos from that day show McGriff&#8217;s car racing with Oregon license tags.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In today&#8217;s NASCAR, state-of-the-art tractor-trailer rigs transport\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news\/120925\/ups-game-changer-haulers\/index.html?eref=%2Fnews%2Fheadlines%2Fcup&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fnews_cup+%28RSS%3A+NEXTEL+Cup+Series%29\" 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>Hershel McGriff remembers when it wasn&#8217;t that unusual to drive the car to the track, tape up the headlights, race 500 miles and if you didn&#8217;t wreck it or blow the engine, drive it home. McGriff did that in 1950, when he drove cross-country from his home in Portland, Ore., to compete in the inaugural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,7,19,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-misc","category-automobile","category-drag-racing","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70255","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=70255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70256,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70255\/revisions\/70256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}