{"id":389154,"date":"2010-03-04T17:00:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=39469"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:00:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:00:12","slug":"vintage-drag-racing-danny-ongais-drives-mickey-thompson%e2%80%99s-1969-mustang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389154","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Drag Racing:  Danny Ongais Drives Mickey Thompson\u2019s 1969 Mustang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sJU3M-T0TXI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sJU3M-T0TXI&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Early funny cars were evil tempered, ill-handling deathtraps that were as likely to blow up as make it down the 1\/4 mile.  The above vid is AHRA drag racing history at its finest: Danny Ongais, best known for his exploits behind the wheel of an Indy car, pilots a 1,500 horsepower Mustang funny car as it hops and bounces down the track at Bristol.  I love the sound of the single cam 427 as it tries to idle, running on pure nitromethane.<\/p>\n<p>Bous points if you can tell me Ongais&#8217; nickname without having to Google it.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the vid, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangshift.com\/blog\/Killer-Video-Mickey-Thompson-s-1969-Mustang-Funny-Car-in-Action-at-Bristol-AHRA-Race.html\">BangShift<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mAF1dT5tPkHOBC3D3b-eaCHnG2g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mAF1dT5tPkHOBC3D3b-eaCHnG2g\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mAF1dT5tPkHOBC3D3b-eaCHnG2g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/mAF1dT5tPkHOBC3D3b-eaCHnG2g\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early funny cars were evil tempered, ill-handling deathtraps that were as likely to blow up as make it down the 1\/4 mile. The above vid is AHRA drag racing history at its finest: Danny Ongais, best known for his exploits behind the wheel of an Indy car, pilots a 1,500 horsepower Mustang funny car as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389154","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\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}