{"id":10650,"date":"2022-07-23T23:18:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T13:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spriteclub.com.au\/?p=10650"},"modified":"2023-11-15T08:39:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T22:09:48","slug":"famous-sprite-mk-ii-escape-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/?p=10650","title":{"rendered":"Famous Sprite Mk II Escape – Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are always many urban myths about particular cars, motor sport and events – none more famous that the Sprite Mk II that drove under the barrier at Checkpoint Charlie between East and West Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Member Barry Edson reminded us of this event recently so here is the interesting read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also well know that the same Sprite was successfully used twice for the same escape……..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are always many urban myths about particular cars, motor sport and events – none more famous that the Sprite Mk II that drove under the barrier at Checkpoint Charlie … Continue reading Famous Sprite Mk II Escape – Twice<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-spritely-chat","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgyCDM-2LM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10653,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10650\/revisions\/10653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}