{"id":49,"date":"2010-06-30T17:49:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T01:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-06-02T06:50:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:50:39","slug":"the-world-of-right-hand-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"The world of Right Hand Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stag-5862.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-55\" title=\"Stag 5862\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stag-5862.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See how flat that back tyre is? This car last moved in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stag-58551.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50\" title=\"Stag 5855\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Stag-58551.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a 1970 Triumph Stag. It was owned by a stupid person in the Bay Area. It&#8217;s now sitting in my driveway, close enough to be mine but far enough away that it won&#8217;t start (another) fire when I start it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got a Rover v8 mated to the original 4-speed o\/d box, and has a hole in the gas tank big enough to put your arm through. It also uses more oil than fuel, but it&#8217;s right hand drive, yellow, and mine.<\/p>\n<p>Also, notice how the doors don&#8217;t fit right? They&#8217;re original &#8211; as proved by the reams of photos and receipts that came with it &#8211; but they are composed almost entirely of rust and filler. That&#8217;s OK, because the car came with four new doors (yes, it&#8217;s a two door with six doors), but I have one honeysuckle door, one french blue door, one mallard blue door, and one green door now. Aren&#8217;t I lucky?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See how flat that back tyre is? This car last moved in 2002. This is a 1970 Triumph Stag. It was owned by a stupid person in the Bay Area. It&#8217;s now sitting in my driveway, close enough to be mine but far enough away that it won&#8217;t start (another) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,60,59,5,61,35,16,15,9,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}