{"id":34939,"date":"2016-06-07T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34939"},"modified":"2016-05-28T18:04:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T22:04:30","slug":"qotd-the-1977-chevrolet-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/06\/07\/qotd-the-1977-chevrolet-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The 1977 Chevrolet Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>1977 was nearing the nadir (what a fortunate homonym!) of American automotive performance.<\/p>\n<p>The base Monte Carlo of Jimmy Carter&#8217;s inaugural year shipped with a 2-bbl 305 cubic inch V8 that wheezed out an underwhelming 140 net horsepower. This gasping iron-block lungfish was plopped in a &#8220;midsize&#8221; car so big that the average NFL team would probably need two running plays to get from the hood ornament to the trunk latch.<\/p>\n<p>But it sure looked good, and any Cletus with a wrench and a SuperShop in the neighborhood strip mall could unlock a lot more power out of that motor&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Tamara Keel, <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2016\/05\/automotif-cxxvi.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Automotif CXXVI&#8230;&#8221;, <em>View from the porch<\/em><\/a>, 2016-05-28.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1977 was nearing the nadir (what a fortunate homonym!) of American automotive performance. The base Monte Carlo of Jimmy Carter&#8217;s inaugural year shipped with a 2-bbl 305 cubic inch V8 that wheezed out an underwhelming 140 net horsepower. This gasping iron-block lungfish was plopped in a &#8220;midsize&#8221; car so big that the average NFL team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,13],"tags":[263,111],"class_list":["post-34939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-1970s","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-95x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34942,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34939\/revisions\/34942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}