{"id":52,"date":"2005-10-31T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2005-10-30T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveandyvonne.com\/davintosh\/?p=52"},"modified":"2005-10-31T01:46:11","modified_gmt":"2005-10-30T20:16:11","slug":"volga-v-12-coupe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2005\/10\/31\/volga-v-12-coupe\/cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Volga V-12 Coupe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/article.asp?section_id=4&#038;article_id=8018\">link<\/a> to a Car &amp; Driver article about a one-off hand-built beauty of a car based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fast-autos.net\/bmw\/bmw850.html\">BMW 850CSi<\/a>, built buy the Russian firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alevel.ru\/index_eng.php\">A:Level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I find this thing really interesting for a couple of reasons; first, because the guy who commissioned it wanted it to look like an old-style Gaz Volga, which was the sub-par commodity vehicle of the 1960&#8217;s USSR. It was the car driven by the few Russians who could afford to drive. So apparently, the guy who designed it had a special place in his heart for those vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, I find this interesting because the car&#8217;s body is hand built, using little more than hammers &amp; anvils to shape the parts. It&#8217;s a far cry from mass production, but it seems to me that the skills required to do this sort of work are pretty uncommon these days. The C&amp;D article says it took 17 months to build the car; two weeks to shape a fender, and a month for a door skin. I find it a bit hard to relate to a job that takes that long to see results, but fascinating that someone can actually take a flat piece of steel and shape it into what we see in this car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a link to a Car &amp; Driver article about a one-off hand-built beauty of a car based on a BMW 850CSi, built buy the Russian firm A:Level. I find this thing really interesting for a couple of reasons; first, because the guy who commissioned it wanted it to look like an old-style Gaz Volga, [&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-52","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\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}