{"id":11991,"date":"2023-09-10T02:02:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T16:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spriteclub.com.au\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2023-09-10T02:02:05","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T16:32:05","slug":"the-need-for-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/?p=11991","title":{"rendered":"The Need for Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cc5473948345929f633e737013ee381c.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"382\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cc5473948345929f633e737013ee381c.jpg?resize=474%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cc5473948345929f633e737013ee381c.jpg?w=563&amp;ssl=1 563w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/spriteclub.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cc5473948345929f633e737013ee381c.jpg?resize=300%2C242&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The British Motor Corporation (BMC) always looked at various ways to promote and sell it vehicles. MG and Austin Healey used record breaking at Bonneville in the USA to help sell its vehicles in the &#8216;States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is the video of the special streamlined Sprite breaking the 138 MPH speed on the salt flats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F4_F8JJqI_Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-AU&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Motor Corporation (BMC) always looked at various ways to promote and sell it vehicles. MG and Austin Healey used record breaking at Bonneville in the USA to help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/?p=11991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Need for Speed<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11991","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-37p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991","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=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11994,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions\/11994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spriteclub.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}