{"id":57696,"date":"2018-12-17T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=57696"},"modified":"2018-12-19T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T23:31:45","slug":"12-cars-of-christmas-day-4-a-1956-pontiac-star-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/12-cars-of-christmas-day-4-a-1956-pontiac-star-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Cars of Christmas Day Four: A 1956 Pontiac Star Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"57697\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/12-cars-of-christmas-day-4-a-1956-pontiac-star-chief\/dsc_0474-min-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_0474-min.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"12 Cars of Christmas Day 4: A 1956 Pontiac Star Chief\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_0474-min-300x165.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_0474-min.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_0474-min.jpg\" alt=\"12 Cars of Christmas Day 4: A 1956 Pontiac Star Chief\" width=\"620\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_0474-min.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_0474-min-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_0474-min-376x206.jpg 376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our fourth Car of Christmas is\u00a0Greg Stelse\u2019s 1956 Pontiac Star Chief, known as &#8220;The Joker.\u201d Restoring this nostalgic racer too some epic effort, but there&#8217;s no denying it was more than worth the trouble! Now usually on display inside Greg&#8217;s new business, Greg\u2019s Speed Shop LLC, in its day The Joker was quite successful on the track, and a great testament to the skill and dedication shown in turning it from a rust-ridden mess into the formidable straight axle dragster it is today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/2018\/06\/28\/1956-pontiac-star-chief-is-no-joke\/\">READ THE FULL STORY HERE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in owning a nostalgic race car, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/category\/150\/Nostalgia.html\">our category right over HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Our fourth Car of Christmas is Greg Stelse\u2019s 1956 Pontiac Star Chief, known as &#8220;The Joker.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":57697,"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":[3447,3711,5044,3465,3700,3697,3470,5029],"tags":[6488,4396,6063,6062,304,41,2244,3720,1632],"class_list":["post-57696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-classic","category-classifieds","category-cool-cars","category-drag-racing","category-featured-vehicles","category-galleries","category-news","category-racing","tag-12-cars-of-christmas","tag-featured-cars","tag-greg-stelse","tag-gregs-speed-shop","tag-john-gunnell","tag-news","tag-nostalgia","tag-nostalgia-racer","tag-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DSC_0474-min.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-f0A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57696","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=57696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57782,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57696\/revisions\/57782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}