{"id":952,"date":"2009-07-10T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/four_wheel_drive_corvette.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:44:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:44:41","slug":"four_wheel_drive_corvette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/four_wheel_drive_corvette.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Four Wheel Drive Corvette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/salguod.net_vette-4x4-1437.shtml\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/salguod.net_vette-4x4-1437.shtml','popup','width=897,height=718,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/salguod.net_vette-4x4-thumb-500x400-1437.jpg?resize=500%2C400\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" alt=\"4WD Corvette\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nI need to reclaim my blog&#8217;s manliness after over two weeks of purses (cool, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salguod.net\/weblog\/archive\/2009\/06\/this_is_either_cool_or_tragic.shtml\">automotive purses<\/a>, but still &#8211; purses) at the top of the page.  This ridiculous four wheel drive Corvette ought to do it.<br \/>\nNothin&#8217; brings a Tim Allen &#8216;Argh, argh, argh&#8217; like a couple acres of polished diamond plate and monster mud tires on a Corvette.<br \/>\nI saw this thing pulling out of a neighborhood near my house and I immediately turned around and gave chase to capture a picture.<br \/>\nSo what we have here is a late70s \/ early 80s Corvette mated to what, a Peterbuilt?  Likely a GM truck chassis, actually. The 4WD Corvette of this era <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musclecars.faketrix.com\/custom-muscle-cars-modified-hot-rods-picture-8-street-Corvette-converted-to-4x4.htm\">has been done before<\/a>, but not to this level of, ahem, <em>polish<\/em>.  I mean, wow, look at all that polished diamond plate!<br \/>\nJudging by the finished undercarriage and the massive cow catcher inspired front air dam (more polished diamond plate, naturally), this was not made to go mudding.  I&#8217;m not sure why it was made, but I find it both ridiculously absurd and fully awesome.<br \/>\nI wish I had gotten a picture of that nose, it was a sight to behold.  I tried, but the camera phone malfunctioned.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m hoping this guy lives in that neighborhood and isn&#8217;t just in town for the annual Good Guys hot rod show and was just turning around.  If it&#8217;s local and lives nearby, I&#8217;ll likely see it again adn might get some better shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to reclaim my blog&#8217;s manliness after over two weeks of purses (cool, automotive purses, but still &#8211; purses) at the top of the page. This ridiculous four wheel<a href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/four_wheel_drive_corvette.shtml\" class=\"more-link\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four Wheel Drive Corvette<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Four Wheel Drive Corvette - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/four_wheel_drive_corvette.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four Wheel Drive Corvette - salguod.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I need to reclaim my blog&#8217;s manliness after over two weeks of purses (cool, automotive purses, but still &#8211; purses) at the top of the page. 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