{"id":75634,"date":"2013-02-19T21:07:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75634"},"modified":"2013-02-19T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T04:07:54","slug":"land-speed-record-danny-thompson-charts-lsr-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=75634","title":{"rendered":"Land Speed Record &#8211; Danny Thompson charts LSR progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the series of videos, Danny Thompson relates his progress in rebuilding his late father Mickey Thompson&#8217;s Challenger II, originally built in 1968, in a bid to exceed the existing internal combustion wheel-driven Land Speed Record of 417.020mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Progress on the Challenger 2.5 streamliner has been extensive. Thompson is working collaboratively with fabricator Steve Davis to complete the project. A steering system for the all-wheel drive twin-engine streamliner and final machining and assembly is in progress. Thompson is producing hand-cut engine\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/video-danny-thompson-charts-lsr-progress\/article\/280978\/\" target=\"_blank\">Videos 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 the series of videos, Danny Thompson relates his progress in rebuilding his late father Mickey Thompson&#8217;s Challenger II, originally built in 1968, in a bid to exceed the existing internal combustion wheel-driven Land Speed Record of 417.020mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Progress on the Challenger 2.5 streamliner has been extensive. Thompson is working [&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-75634","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\/75634","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=75634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75636,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75634\/revisions\/75636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}