{"id":2243,"date":"2021-06-15T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2021-06-15T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T16:43:12","slug":"new-slant-six-junkyard-book-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/2021\/06\/new-slant-six-junkyard-book-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"New slant six\/junkyard book, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"
Did you ever spend the day in a wrecker\u2019s yard, searching for the perfect parts for your old car? Did you reclaim and restore-on-the-cheap an old $200 junker given up for dead?<\/div>\n
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Gary Platz and Ed Dreistadt, longtime Slant Six Club writers, illustrators, and meet hosts, have put together some of their old material and a lot of new stories into\u00a0My Slant On Things<\/i>.<\/div>\n
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Follow Gary and Ed as they meander through the junkyards of their memories, full of slant sixes, camaraderie, mistakes, and achievements.<\/div>\n
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The book includes the \u201c2,000 horsepower Valiant\u201d which, I hasten to say, was nowhere near that power level), and other recollections, mistakes, and memories.<\/div>\n
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The print and digital versions are both quite inexpensive<\/a>. The print version is 86 pages long, in a full 8.5×11 full-color format.<\/div>\n
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In other news, The rise and reinvention of Chrysler minivans<\/i> is now available in hardcover<\/a>, with the Kindle edition dropped to $5.55<\/a> and the color paperback dropped to $19.84.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In other other news, Dodge Viper: The Full Story of the World\u2019s First V10 Sports Car<\/em><\/a>\u00a0has been updated and corrected, with input from another Viper team member, and reissued in paperback.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you ever spend the day in a wrecker\u2019s yard, searching for the perfect parts for your old car? Did you reclaim and restore-on-the-cheap an old $200 junker given up for dead? Gary Platz and Ed Dreistadt, longtime Slant Six Club writers, illustrators, and meet hosts, have put together some of their old material and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":2250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/clean_machine.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2251,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}