{"id":532097,"date":"2010-04-17T14:45:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T18:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=43895"},"modified":"2010-04-17T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T18:45:23","slug":"1960-chevrolet-impala-shows-us-the-definition-of-torque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532097","title":{"rendered":"1960 Chevrolet Impala Shows Us The Definition of Torque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w6jo6gVug48&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w6jo6gVug48&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Torque is a measure of rotational force.  Given the rotational force exhibited by this \u201960 Impala, I think we should stop using \u201cfoot pounds\u201d as a standard of measurement and start using Impalas, where one Impala equals a thousand foot pounds of torque.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how this car keeps it\u2019s windshield in place ot the doors shut.  That motor must be making some serious power to loft the front end and twist the frame like that.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bangshift.com\/blog\/Killer-Drag-Video-A-1960-Impala-Twisting-Itself-Up-Like-a-Pretzel.html\">Bangshift<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LRw59V7EGHt06lMtr_PamU6sf2I\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LRw59V7EGHt06lMtr_PamU6sf2I\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LRw59V7EGHt06lMtr_PamU6sf2I\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/LRw59V7EGHt06lMtr_PamU6sf2I\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torque is a measure of rotational force. Given the rotational force exhibited by this \u201960 Impala, I think we should stop using \u201cfoot pounds\u201d as a standard of measurement and start using Impalas, where one Impala equals a thousand foot pounds of torque. I have no idea how this car keeps it\u2019s windshield in place [&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-532097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532097","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=532097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}