{"id":3409,"date":"2019-04-28T18:23:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2019-04-30T21:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T02:23:01","slug":"buick-v-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/buick-v-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Buick V-8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A neat write up by Hagerty Insurance on the beginnings and evolution of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagerty.com\/articles-videos\/articles\/2019\/04\/17\/buicks-little-aluminum-v-8?utm_source=SFMC&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=19_April_20_Weekend_News\">Buick aluminum V-8<\/a>. A few of these motors ended up in the modified class hydroplanes. I had heard from a couple of former drivers that those Buick V8s could became almost a grenade motor when used in the highly-stressed situation encountered in a hydroplane race. [shrapnel def &#8211; fragments of a bomb, shell, casings and\/or other objects thrown out by an explosion]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neat write up by Hagerty Insurance on the beginnings and evolution of the Buick aluminum V-8. A few of these motors ended up in the modified class hydroplanes. I had heard from a couple of former drivers that those Buick V8s could became almost a grenade motor when used &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3425,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}