{"id":910,"date":"2024-04-13T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=910"},"modified":"2023-07-25T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T16:04:11","slug":"the-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=910","title":{"rendered":"The Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Undertaking a project of this magnitude is not something that I could do alone.  My daughter, Becca, is interested in helping but I knew that I also needed some experienced gearheads on our side as well.  Enter the crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim is a long-time friend who introduced me to the Challenge in the first place.  When I first started getting an inkling that I might want to tackle this project, he was the first that I drew into my circle of trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greg is a fellow forum participant who lives in the area and works pretty close to my part of town.  When he heard there was a secret Challenge project underway, he was in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David is another fellow participant and Challenge attendee who lives in town.  He wasn&#8217;t able to join us in person for the reveal, but thanks to the magic of FaceTime, he was with us virtually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the car was back home, I sent a text to our group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image.png 575w, https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-300x71.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With a hook like that, no one could resist, so we gathered on a rainy Monday evening for me to unveil the car.  Becca and Tim already knew what the car was, but neither had seen it yet.  Greg and David made their guesses &#8211; another Saab was the consensus there &#8211; and then Tim and I pulled the cover off to reveal the car.  Greg&#8217;s response was &#8220;when you said it didn&#8217;t run, I feel like we probably should have guessed&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After reminding everyone that there was an absolute media embargo, we started scheming and making plans.  Since I have some other projects that need to be taken care of first, the official &#8220;start date&#8221; of the project was slated for mid September, after Tim and I return from the Silver State Classic Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undertaking a project of this magnitude is not something that I could do alone. My daughter, Becca, is interested in helping but I knew that I also needed some experienced gearheads on our side as well. Enter the crew. Tim&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=910\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-185"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}