{"id":213529,"date":"2010-01-22T16:58:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=34384"},"modified":"2010-01-22T16:58:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T21:58:49","slug":"bring-on-the-beaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/213529","title":{"rendered":"Bring on the BEATERS!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34387\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/bring-on-the-beaters\/beater1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34387\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Beater1-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is something to be said about owning a beater. They&#8217;re not pretty, generally don&#8217;t run well and are most likely the farthest thing from a performance vehicle that one can imagine. The general public views them with looks of disgust and considers them road hazards. What they don&#8217;t realize however is that to those of us in the automotive know, our beaters are our full-on prize possessions.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34388\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/bring-on-the-beaters\/1997-chrysler-minivan\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34388\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1997-Chrysler-Minivan-500x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The beater is a ride that laughs in the face of all that is beautiful in the automotive spectrum. They love parking on city streets and live for door dings and crappy weather. The beater is a beast that does what all high-end garage queens strive to be, that being&#8230; useful. Go to any Home Depot or the local train station and see for yourselves how many Mercedes and BMW&#8217;s you see in the lot &#8211; the simple fact is, not to many. They don&#8217;t live here&#8230; this is the beaters playground.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-34390\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/bring-on-the-beaters\/1979mercurycapri-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1979MercuryCapri1-500x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>God knows over the years I&#8217;ve had my share of beaters. Everything ranging from a 1981 Mercury Capri (remember those), to a clapped out rusted Dodge Dakota pick-up truck, to my all time favorite&#8230; a 1997 Mercury Villager mini-van&#8230; man do I miss that thing. They were all great vehicles that did exactly what they were supposed to do. They gave me the freedom to park, go and do anything I wanted without the worry of something happening to them. So, with that being said, let&#8217;s here about the POS you&#8217;ve got in the driveway&#8230; I flippin\u2019 love these things so post them up and be proud of your pile.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/15-beater-cars-that-wont-disappoint\/\">RideLust&#8217;s 15 Beaters That Won&#8217;t Disappoint<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_NVul5Xq4TSsmWgwFne6u1zShHw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_NVul5Xq4TSsmWgwFne6u1zShHw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_NVul5Xq4TSsmWgwFne6u1zShHw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/_NVul5Xq4TSsmWgwFne6u1zShHw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something to be said about owning a beater. They&#8217;re not pretty, generally don&#8217;t run well and are most likely the farthest thing from a performance vehicle that one can imagine. The general public views them with looks of disgust and considers them road hazards. What they don&#8217;t realize however is that to those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}