{"id":245,"date":"2007-08-05T23:27:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T03:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveandyvonne.com\/davintosh\/?p=245"},"modified":"2007-08-05T23:27:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-06T03:27:38","slug":"lightning-samurai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/05\/lightning-samurai\/cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Samurai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you stretch the front of a Suzuki Samurai out &amp; stuff a 425 horsepower Corvette engine under the hood? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzukiconversion.com\/suzuki_featured.htm\">Lightning Samurai<\/a>, built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzukiconversion.com\/\">SuzukiConversion.com<\/a>. It&#8217;s apparently a one-off, but I&#8217;m guessing they could churn out another if someone were to come up with $25,000.<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_l-front.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_l-front.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>The car has been converted to 2-wheel drive, and also features a 6-speed Camaro transmission, narrowed rear end to make room for the extra wide rear tires &#038; antilock disk brakes on all four wheels. they say it&#8217;ll do 160mph, and will cruise at 140. I believe it.<\/p>\n<p>It looks a little funny with that extra long nose on it, but I guess the short little engine bay on a stock Samurai isn&#8217;t quite enough for the LT1. They&#8217;ve got a nice set of photos on their site &mdash; I nabbed them just in case they sell the thing &amp; take down the pics &mdash; but I&#8217;d sure like to see what it looks like with the top off, since that&#8217;s the way I&#8217;d be driving it.<\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_rear.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_rear.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_rear.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_rear.jpg' \/><\/a>  <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_r-rear.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_r-rear.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_r-rear.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_r-rear.jpg' \/><\/a>  <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_left.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_left.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_left.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_left.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_l-rear.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_l-rear.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_l-rear.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_l-rear.jpg' \/><\/a>  <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_l-front.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_l-front.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_l-front.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_l-front.jpg' \/><\/a>  <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_interior_2.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_interior_2.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_interior_2.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_interior_2.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_interior_1.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_interior_1.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_interior_1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_interior_1.jpg' \/><\/a>  <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_front.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_front.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_front.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_front.jpg' \/><\/a>  <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_engine_3.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_engine_3.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_engine_3.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_engine_3.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_engine_2.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_engine_2.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_engine_2.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_engine_2.jpg' \/><\/a>  <a href='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_engine_1.jpg' title='lightning_samurai_engine_1.jpg'><img src='\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/lightning_samurai_engine_1.thumbnail.jpg' alt='lightning_samurai_engine_1.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you get when you stretch the front of a Suzuki Samurai out &amp; stuff a 425 horsepower Corvette engine under the hood? The Lightning Samurai, built by SuzukiConversion.com. It&#8217;s apparently a one-off, but I&#8217;m guessing they could churn out another if someone were to come up with $25,000. The car has been converted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}