{"id":179,"date":"2012-10-09T06:41:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=179"},"modified":"2012-10-09T06:41:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:41:19","slug":"sometimes-you-just-wonder-how-did-this-get-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, you just wonder&#8230; &#8220;how did this get here?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re wandering around the scrapyard, trying to avoid the greasier puddles and the guy angrily hammering away at a miscellaneous suspension part. All around you are the dullest and worst examples of the last twenty years of the automotive industry. Camrys, Accords, Escorts, Cavaliers, minivans&#8230; by the hundred. You&#8217;re looking for the one and only Range Rover in the yard, when all of a sudden you see this peeking out from the end of an aisle:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-05-23_09-57-45_507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-180\" title=\"2012-05-23_09-57-45_507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/2012-05-23_09-57-45_507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know. A 58 MG Magnette. These are unbelievably rare anywhere in the world, but to find one in the US &#8211; and in a mediocre scrapyard &#8211; is unheard-of. Miraculously, it all seemed to be there.. well.. the paint has obviously gone walkabout, and some of the engine ancilliaries were in the (cavernous) boot.. even the awesome half-octagon speedo was still in place. The bodywork does give off an aura of &#8220;I haven&#8217;t moved since 1969&#8221;, but there&#8217;s far worse laying around.<br \/>\nI do hope someone does something useful with it, rather than just hanging the MG badges on their garage wall&#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re wandering around the scrapyard, trying to avoid the greasier puddles and the guy angrily hammering away at a miscellaneous suspension part. All around you are the dullest and worst examples of the last twenty years of the automotive industry. Camrys, Accords, Escorts, Cavaliers, minivans&#8230; by the hundred. You&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53,57,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}