{"id":42417,"date":"2017-07-31T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=42417"},"modified":"2017-07-31T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:57:11","slug":"muscle-car-madness-1969-ford-mustang-mach-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/muscle-car-madness-1969-ford-mustang-mach-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-42417-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/1969-Ford-Mustang-Mach-1-a.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;42418&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Click Here to Begin Slideshow\\n\\nThe sound could shake dentures out of a mouth. The engine cackles as if lined up at a drag strip Christmas tree, so I\\u2019m not surprised when Luke Chin tells me the police have stopped him in the past for exceeding the maximum \\u2018loud exhaust\\u2019 violation.\\n\\n\\u201cFortunately, I had two new mufflers in the trunk, so the cop let me go with a warning,\\u201d he recalls.\\n\\nIt snorts to life with a throaty rumble that could be construed as God\\u2019s implacable anger. A lick of flame bursts from the chrome mouth of the exhaust and I\\u2019m mesmerized.\\n\\n\\u201cDriving it is therapeutic.\\u201d That is how Luke describes driving his 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1. The car, a bulk of Herculean muscle, is painted in a shade of sinister black. \\u201cWhen I bought it, the paint had worn its replacement black from its Royal Maroon, so I repainted it jet black,\\u201d he explains.\\n\\nClive Branson gave an in-depth interview about Luke\\u0026#8217;s majestic muscle car, you can read it in its entirety on Hot Rod Hotline!&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/1969-Mustang-Mach-1-e.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;42422&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/1969-Ford-Mustang-Mach-1-b.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;42419&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 2&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/1969-Ford-Mustang-Mach-1-c.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;42420&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 3&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.racingjunk.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/1969-Ford-Mustang-Mach-1-d.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;42421&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1 4&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;Muscle Car Madness: 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>\u201cDriving it is therapeutic.\u201d That is how Luke describes driving his 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":42418,"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":[3697,3470,4879],"tags":[3629,43,4892,3515,617,2820,892,41,4888],"class_list":["post-42417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galleries","category-news","category-slideshow","tag-clive-branson","tag-ford","tag-galleries","tag-hot-rod-hotline","tag-muscle-car-madness","tag-muscle-cars","tag-mustang","tag-news","tag-slideshow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1969-Ford-Mustang-Mach-1-a.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-b29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42423,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions\/42423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}