{"id":229,"date":"2006-09-13T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T15:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2006-09-13T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T15:14:20","slug":"callaway-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Callaway cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company I work for has customers who do pretty fancy mechanical engineering. One of our customers adds their products (designed with our software) to Corvettes to make extra-powerful cars. They brought a couple of them over yesterday to show off. I&#8217;m more of a basic transportation, &#8220;my other car is a bicycle&#8221; guy than a car buff, but it was worth a look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/09\/red_vette_hood.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/09\/callaway_vettes.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The red one is a production Corvette with Callaway tuning that gives it something over 500 horsepower and a top speed about 197 mph. The grey one is more of a concept car of which only 30 were made, with a few fewer horsepower than the other and a top speed more like 191 mph. However, the grey one has a manual transmission as opposed to the automatic that the red one has, which gives it a three-tenths second better 0-60 time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company I work for has customers who do pretty fancy mechanical engineering. One of our customers adds their products (designed with our software) to Corvettes to make extra-powerful cars. They brought a couple of them over yesterday to show off. I&#8217;m more of a basic transportation, &#8220;my other car is a bicycle&#8221; guy than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/?p=229\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Callaway cars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rollingonone.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}