{"id":1198,"date":"2018-10-02T01:23:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T01:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2026-09-12T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T22:19:08","slug":"an-awesome-exhaust-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/02\/an-awesome-exhaust-note\/","title":{"rendered":"An awesome exhaust note&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Sue and I were in the Columbia River Gorge gathering info for a <em>Motorcycle Classics<\/em> story (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorcycleclassics.com\/classic-motorcycle-touring\/columbia-river-gorge-national-scenic-area-zmkz17jazhur\">you can read it here<\/a>). \u00a0 We flew up because I had a tight schedule and we rented a car from one of those places where you walk into the parking lot and pick whatever car you want.\u00a0 I saw cool little yellow Hyundai Veloster and it got the nod.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always liked the looks of that car&#8230;sporty, low, and kind of in your face.\u00a0 And, it had a small engine, which I find more appealing these days.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t disappointed&#8230;I loved that car.<\/p>\n<p>I see another Veloster near my dentist&#8217;s office every time I have to make that trek&#8230;a custom blue number that is a visually arresting automobile. \u00a0 Yesterday I walked into the vape shop next door and asked who owned it.\u00a0 The guys inside looked alarmed&#8230;I guess because I&#8217;m a mature dude with short hair and they&#8217;re all young, they assumed something bad was brewing.\u00a0 But that wasn&#8217;t the case at all.\u00a0 I explained that I really liked the Veloster and I wanted to get some photos of it. \u00a0 And I did.<\/p>\n<p>Jon&#8217;s car is a 2012 Veloster and I like what he&#8217;s done to it. \u00a0 Lots of trim pieces, flared wheel wells, a carbon fiber hood, custom wheels, and more.\u00a0 Jon&#8217;s custom Veloster sounds great, too. \u00a0 I guess you could say it sort of defines our website with, well, you know&#8230;an awesome ExhaustNote.\u00a0 Take a listen&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sBmZTKSePrY\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Sue and I were in the Columbia River Gorge gathering info for a Motorcycle Classics story (you can read it here). \u00a0 We flew up because I had a tight schedule and we rented a car from one of those places where you walk into the parking lot and pick whatever car you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2018\/10\/02\/an-awesome-exhaust-note\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An awesome exhaust note&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[96],"tags":[322,320,321],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-exhaust-note","tag-hyundai","tag-veloster"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34483,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/34483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}