{"id":7293,"date":"2020-01-19T06:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=7293"},"modified":"2020-01-19T06:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T14:13:22","slug":"a-cherry-70-vette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/19\/a-cherry-70-vette\/","title":{"rendered":"A cherry &#8217;70 Vette&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good buddy Kirk was at our favorite Mexican restaurant a few days ago and he graciously consented to a photo or two of his 1970 Corvette. \u00a0 It&#8217;s an awesome car.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7294\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_8934_1401-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_8934_1401-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_8934_1401-600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7295\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_8935_1402-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_8935_1402-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/DSC_8935_1402-600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>I love old Vettes, and I think the C3 body style is one of the best.\u00a0 I also like the C1, the C2, the C4, the C5, and well, you get the idea.\u00a0 I like Corvettes.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk&#8217;s Vette is from one of the lowest production years ever for the Corvette. Chevy went to the C3 body style in 1968, and Kirk told me that the &#8217;68 and &#8217;69 model years had so many problems that the car hit a sales trough in 1970. \u00a0 Today, that translates into increased rarity for the &#8217;70 model and increased demand.\u00a0 Kirk&#8217;s car has the 350-cubic-inch motor and a three-speed Turbo Hydramatic transmission. \u00a0 It&#8217;s incredibly cool and I love the look of a silver Corvette.<\/p>\n<p>The Corvette you see above is 50 years old this year. \u00a0 At that age, it could have its own midlife crisis, which is kind of funny as buying a Corvette is usually the result of guys having a midlife crisis. \u00a0I had a silver Corvette that I kept for 14 years (I sold it a couple of years ago).\u00a0 It was a great car and I sometimes think about getting another one.\u00a0 Folks would always ask me if it was my midlife crisis car, and I always told them I sure hoped so.\u00a0 I bought it when I was 53 years old and I would like going for another 53 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good buddy Kirk was at our favorite Mexican restaurant a few days ago and he graciously consented to a photo or two of his 1970 Corvette. \u00a0 It&#8217;s an awesome car. I love old Vettes, and I think the C3 body style is one of the best.\u00a0 I also like the C1, the C2, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/19\/a-cherry-70-vette\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A cherry &#8217;70 Vette&#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_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":[96],"tags":[891,1038],"class_list":["post-7293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stuff","tag-corvette","tag-midlie-crisis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293","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=7293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7348,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7293\/revisions\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}