{"id":647,"date":"2010-10-03T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T00:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/?p=647"},"modified":"2010-10-04T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T05:08:14","slug":"man-this-car-should-fly-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"Man this car should fly now!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the added horsepower from the new speedometer. OK, you got me. It&#8217;s not new, but it sure looks pretty close to it.<\/p>\n<p>The way I saw it was I could pay a few hundred dollars (the chrome bezel alone was about $180) for a new one or recondition the one I have. I opted for the latter. Not only did I save major bucks on this part of the project, but I got great satisfaction out of doing all this myself.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish I took a before picture to show you all how it looked then. But take a look now. Not bad huh? Well at least I think so.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-648\" title=\"1955 Chevy Bel Air speedometer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.my55chevybelair.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/55-belair-speedometer-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/55-belair-speedometer-300x254.jpg 300w, http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/55-belair-speedometer.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that I know even the smallest parts are available, I may do a whole lot more of this. I only intended to wire under the dash, but when I actually looked real close I figured I might as well clean things up since it is apart. No sense doing a job twice (or half-assed)<\/p>\n<p>Just a few more parts and the new wiring should be going back in. I&#8217;ll keep you posted!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the added horsepower from the new speedometer. OK, you got me. It&#8217;s not new, but it sure looks pretty close to it. The way I saw it was I could pay a few hundred dollars (the chrome bezel&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/?p=647\">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":[57,193,3,35],"tags":[320,535,319,317,318,56],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/my55chevybelair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}