{"id":7568,"date":"2009-04-05T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-05T16:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7568"},"modified":"2009-04-05T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-05T18:09:14","slug":"automobile-misc-gm-plans-to-auction-100-specialty-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=7568","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Misc. &#8211; GM plans to auction 100 specialty cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s the automaker&#8217;s second sale this year of antique and show cars as the company aims to cut its specialty fleet in half. &#8216;It costs a lot to house that many vehicles,&#8217; says an official.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With the very survival of the nation&#8217;s largest carmaker in question, General Motors Corp. is selling pieces of its history.<\/p>\n<p>This week, GM will auction about 100 of its prized antique and show cars to raise cash and trim warehousing costs. The company seeks to cut its specialty fleet by nearly half. It once numbered 1,000&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-gm-auction5-2009apr05,0,4550920.story\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/placeholder-3701054?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the automaker&#8217;s second sale this year of antique and show cars as the company aims to cut its specialty fleet in half. &#8216;It costs a lot to house that many vehicles,&#8217; says an official. With the very survival of the nation&#8217;s largest carmaker in question, General Motors Corp. is selling pieces of its history. [&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-7568","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\/7568","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=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7656,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions\/7656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}