{"id":368,"date":"2010-05-21T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T17:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2010-05-24T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:09:08","slug":"someone-flipped-me-the-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Someone Flipped Me the Bird!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I thought that was very cool of them.<\/p>\n<p>The only real piece of trim missing from My 55 Chevy Bel Air when I got it was the centerpiece of attention. The Chevy Hood Bird. One of the benefits I have found of going to car cruise nights and car shows is meeting people with the same interests or knowledge of the cars and parts. One fellow I happen to meet has a 1955 Chevy but his is a 210 not a Bel Air. He happen to notice the bareness of my hood and mentioned he had a bird at home. He told me it wasn&#8217;t in the best of shape, but it at least was a Hood Bird.<\/p>\n<p>After missing each other for a couple of weeks, we finally caught up and he flipped me the bird. Thanks Doug! The bird was missing it&#8217;s nuts so I drove over to the local hardware store and picked up some locking ones that fit. The nuts were paired with some washers at home and ready to be installed.<\/p>\n<p>The holes of course were all filled in from the previous owner, but I could see the patched holes from underneath the hood. I measured the studs under the bird,\u00a0selected the correct drill bit and proceeded to re-open the holes. It took some work, (had to shave the bondo down where they built up the ridge on the hood) but I finally got it mounted and must say, it adds a bit of distinction to the car now.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-369\" title=\"55 Chevy Hood Bird Ornament\" src=\"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/55-chevy-hood-bird-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/55-chevy-hood-bird-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/55-chevy-hood-bird.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I thought that was very cool of them. The only real piece of trim missing from My 55 Chevy Bel Air when I got it was the centerpiece of attention. The Chevy Hood Bird. One of the benefits I&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/?p=368\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,57,3],"tags":[187,188,186,185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}