{"id":277124,"date":"2010-02-04T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=36190"},"modified":"2010-02-04T14:41:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T19:41:22","slug":"1966-olds-toronado-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/277124","title":{"rendered":"1966 Olds Toronado Twin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36199\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/1966-olds-toronado-twin\/07e1f122305919a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36199\" title=\"07E1F122305919A\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07E1F122305919A.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s better than a 1966 Olds Toronado? A 1966 Olds Toronado with TWO engines.<\/p>\n<p>Tycoon Grant McCoon of the Grant Piston ring company built this insane prototype in the late &#8217;60s. It has two Olds 425-ci. V-8s, one in its original position powering the front wheels and one in the trunk for the back wheels. The thing supposedly has a combined 770 horsepower and can hit 100 miles per hour in 11 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>McCoon&#8217;s plan was to sell twin-engined Toronados to other tycoons who needed a little extra oomph for their daily drive. Needless to say, it never happened and this brown monstrosity is the only surviving example of his mad genius.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a title=\"Grant Piston Rings - History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grantpistonrings.com\/history\/history_home.htm\" >Grant Piston Rings<\/a>, <a title=\"1966 Toronado Twin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carpictures.com\/vehicle\/07E1F122305919.html\" >CarPictures.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-36190\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36200\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/1966-olds-toronado-twin\/07e1f122305919h\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36200\" title=\"07E1F122305919H\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07E1F122305919H.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-36201\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/1966-olds-toronado-twin\/07e1f122305919f\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36201\" title=\"07E1F122305919F\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/07E1F122305919F.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ofAAPpgBn9SA2Np-g1k7dNx9sRM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ofAAPpgBn9SA2Np-g1k7dNx9sRM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ofAAPpgBn9SA2Np-g1k7dNx9sRM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ofAAPpgBn9SA2Np-g1k7dNx9sRM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s better than a 1966 Olds Toronado? A 1966 Olds Toronado with TWO engines. Tycoon Grant McCoon of the Grant Piston ring company built this insane prototype in the late &#8217;60s. It has two Olds 425-ci. V-8s, one in its original position powering the front wheels and one in the trunk for the back wheels. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4349,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277124","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\/4349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}