{"id":3744,"date":"2010-07-18T21:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2010-07-18T21:18:58","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T07:18:58","slug":"gross-travesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/18\/gross-travesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Gross Travesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a white Land Cruiser 80 with crazy lift by the airport.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve actually seen this thing before out on the West side.  I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really make out all the details since it was bouncing around like crazy, but the axle linkages and coil springs had all been removed, and leaf springs hacked in.  The stock outboard shock mounting positions had been abandoned for dual inboard mounted shocks set at 45-degree angles, such that the top eyelets of the innermost shocks were almost adjacent to each other!  This is of course because functionality aside, duals &#8220;look more cool&#8221;.  NOT!  I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be surprised by the unnatural track if semi-floating GM axles had been swapped in instead of the stock full-floaters.  Also wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be surprised if there was a carbureted GM V8 in this Frankenmobile instead of a proper, torquey Toyota sequential EFI inline.  Remove the salient Land Cruiser features and hack in lame, inferior substitutions.  Good job!<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/18\/gross-travesty\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" class=\"asides-permalink\" title=\"Permanent Link to Gross Travesty\">(0)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw a white Land Cruiser 80 with crazy lift by the airport. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve actually seen this thing before out on the West side. I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really make out all the details since it was bouncing around like crazy, but the axle linkages and coil springs had all been removed, and leaf springs hacked in. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-Yo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}