{"id":8376,"date":"2014-10-13T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=8376"},"modified":"2014-10-13T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:09:08","slug":"aed-racingjunk-chevy-silverado-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/aed-racingjunk-chevy-silverado-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Van T. Free III, Winner of the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giveaway_truck_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6928\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/racing-junk-partners\/giveaway_truck_1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giveaway_truck_1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"905,502\" 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=\"Giveaway_truck_1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giveaway_truck_1-300x166.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giveaway_truck_1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6928\" alt=\"Giveaway_truck_1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giveaway_truck_1.jpg\" width=\"905\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giveaway_truck_1.jpg 905w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giveaway_truck_1-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Giveaway_truck_1-600x332.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long fun ride for us, collecting entries all over the country and meeting the great folks who entered the contest to win the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/racingjunk-and-aed-performance-silverado-truck-giveaway\/\">AED Performance\/RacingJunk.com 2014 Chevrolet Silverado<\/a>\u00a0given away to help celebrate RacingJunk.com&#8217;s 15th Anniversary! Thanks to our friends at AED Performance for making the giveaway possible, thanks to everyone who entered, and we have our winner!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to <strong>Van T. Free III, from Montgomery, Alabama<\/strong> who gets to take the truck home after his trip to the 2014 Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) trade show in Las Vegas!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video of our staff making that exciting phone call:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/egBp3QtmWPA\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The truck has been all over the country -from the Charlotte Auto Fair to the Hot Rod Power Tour to the Syracuse Nationals.\u00a0Modifications and upgrades to the truck include tires from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mickeythompsontires.com\/\">Mickey Thompson<\/a>, wheels from\u00a0<a href=\"about:blank\">Weld Racing<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnaflow.com\/\">Magnaflow Exhaust system<\/a>, a supercharger from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.magnacharger.com\/\">Magnuson<\/a>\u00a0installed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhrperformance.com\/\">JHR Performance<\/a>, an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.4are.com\/\">A.R.E. Bed Cover<\/a>, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.duplicolor.com\/products\/bedArmor\/\">Dupli-Color Bed Armour system<\/a>, and a lift kit from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.roughcountry.com\/\">Rough Country Suspension Systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We hate to say goodbye to it, but we&#8217;re so glad that the Silverado is going to someone so excited to receive it! \u00a0Congratulations again, Van!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It&#8217;s been a long fun ride for us, collecting entries all over the country and meeting the great folks who entered the contest to win <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/aed-racingjunk-chevy-silverado-winner\/\" title=\"Congratulations to Van T. Free III, Winner of the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado!\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":8379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","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":[3470],"tags":[1400,886,1080],"class_list":["post-8376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-grand-prize","tag-racingjunk-truck-giveaway","tag-racingjunkaed-performance-2014-chevrolet-silverado-giveaway","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Giveaway_truck_2Feature.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-2b6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376","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=8376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8381,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8376\/revisions\/8381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}