{"id":12009,"date":"2015-02-10T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T23:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=12009"},"modified":"2015-11-11T10:26:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T18:26:04","slug":"video-hillbilly-go-kart-powered-by-a-olds-v-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/video-hillbilly-go-kart-powered-by-a-olds-v-8\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] Hillbilly Go-Kart Powered by a Olds V-8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are building a race car for the track or restoring a car you used to have in high school, most projects have a purpose. The purpose for this project is 100% pure fun. This go-kart \u00a0was engineered by an obvious mad scientist with a spare Oldsmobile 425-cubic- inch V-8 lying around, and not much else. \u00a0With the chassis looking like it&#8217;s made out of broom sticks, and the steering wheel off a vintage ice-cream truck, this Frankenstein doesn&#8217;t really scream safety. However, with a heavy cam and instant fishtails with the blip of throttle, this thing screams awesome.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s6xhD8BVKo4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/bangshift.com\/general-news\/videos\/oldsmobile-powered-go-kart-just-might-frightening-piece-backyard-engineering-ever\/\">Bangshift<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>This Olds V-8 powered go-kart is an instant burnout machine.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[107,12],"tags":[140,280,1971,3199,1824,1201,1593],"class_list":["post-12009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-burnouts","category-karts","tag-burnouts-2","tag-engine-swaps","tag-go-kart","tag-karts","tag-oldsmobile","tag-project-cars","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Featff.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-37H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12018,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions\/12018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}