{"id":43335,"date":"2014-04-24T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43335"},"modified":"2014-04-24T09:41:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T14:41:55","slug":"hail-the-pony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43335","title":{"rendered":"Hail The Pony!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 50th anniversary of the Ford Mustang &#8211; one of automotive history&#8217;s great successes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/files.conceptcarz.com\/img\/Ford\/1968_Mustang_Ford_manu-01-1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, during a live NARN broadcast, James Lileks and I discussed how, if the &#8220;green car&#8221; movement ever, <em>ever <\/em>wanted to catch on with mainstream America, it needed to build an electric or hybrid version of one of the great sixties muscle cars &#8211; because they weren&#8217;t <em>just cars<\/em>; they were celebrations of life, and especially of the sheer joy of the American tradition of not just mobility, but mobilitywith style.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The only car that&#8217;s come close, so far, is the Tesla Model S&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Z7jYjZ9Sz94\/Te6Od8TTlvI\/AAAAAAAAAzc\/aFEK23QQiXU\/s1600\/tesla-model-s_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which is a good start, although modern safety and fuel economy regulations pretty much make sure every car on the road looks like a photoshopped Ford Taurus these days.\u00a0\u00a0 The Feds wouldn&#8217;t <em>allow <\/em>the immortal Pony to be built today!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/cars\/news\/vintage-speed\/10-cool-mustangs-from-the-las-vegas-50th-anniversary-mustang-celebration?click=pp#slide-1\">10 great Mustangs through history<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 50th anniversary of the Ford Mustang &#8211; one of automotive history&#8217;s great successes. A few years ago, during a live NARN broadcast, James Lileks and I discussed how, if the &#8220;green car&#8221; movement ever, ever wanted to catch on with mainstream America, it needed to build an electric or hybrid version of one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43338,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43335\/revisions\/43338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}