{"id":429292,"date":"2010-03-15T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=40324"},"modified":"2010-03-15T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:00:21","slug":"4%c3%974-vw-passat-big-on-ugly-but-good-on-traction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/429292","title":{"rendered":"4\u00d74 VW Passat: Big on Ugly but Good on Traction."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width='428' height='352' classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000' id='SFID016554228495806456'><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.streetfire.net\/flash\/SPlayer.swf' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' \/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always' \/><param name='wmode' value='transparent' \/><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' \/><param name='FlashVars' value='&#038;video=a012c9d5-b9dd-41ae-91c5-9d3401099c2d&#038;servicecfg=386'\/><embed src='http:\/\/www.streetfire.net\/flash\/SPlayer.swf' flashvars='video=a012c9d5-b9dd-41ae-91c5-9d3401099c2d&#038;servicecfg=386' allowfullscreen='true' wmode='transparent' width='428' height='352' allowscriptaccess='always' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' pluginspage='http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer' \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I think we all have a soft spot in our hearts for home built contraptions. Regardless of what they do it&#8217;s just cool to see what people can come up with in the dregs of their workshops. Take this ridiculous VW Passat for example. This thing must easily be 5-feet off the ground sporting what looks to be tractor tires and a fully home built suspension system. From the exhaust note the engine seems to be completely stock as well. As you can see the driver is having no problem flogging this thing through the snow, but all that height combined with a very narrow width would have me nervous to even set foot in that thing. Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but I have a feeling that we&#8217;re going to see a video of this thing flipping over very soon on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetfire.net\">Streetfire.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jVDG6DEFZ9ZWVQPGJ3Hv_F4xLUc\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jVDG6DEFZ9ZWVQPGJ3Hv_F4xLUc\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jVDG6DEFZ9ZWVQPGJ3Hv_F4xLUc\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/jVDG6DEFZ9ZWVQPGJ3Hv_F4xLUc\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we all have a soft spot in our hearts for home built contraptions. Regardless of what they do it&#8217;s just cool to see what people can come up with in the dregs of their workshops. Take this ridiculous VW Passat for example. This thing must easily be 5-feet off the ground sporting what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429292","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=429292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}