{"id":1623,"date":"2011-10-14T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T17:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2011-10-14T17:09:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T23:09:19","slug":"project-car-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1623","title":{"rendered":"Project Car Hell!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pch_bythetimeigettoarizona-600px.jpg\" alt=\"pch_bythetimeigettoarizona-600px\" title=\"pch_bythetimeigettoarizona-600px\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pch_bythetimeigettoarizona-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pch_bythetimeigettoarizona-600px-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nWhen I left Jalopnik and took writing gigs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetruthaboutcars.com\/author\/murilee-martin\/\">at The Truth About Cars<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.highgearmedia.com\/user\/10018465_murilee-martin\">at Motor Authority<\/a>, on top of my job as <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5065369\/lemons-judges-believe-in-honest-out+front-bribery-not-the-shameful-furtive-kind\">Justice<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.24hoursoflemons.com\/\">24 Hours of LeMons<\/a> Supreme Court, I thought that the run of Project Car Hell episodes would be over&#8230; but now <em>Autoweek<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/article\/20111014\/CARNEWS\/111019930\">talked me into bringing the series out of retirement!<\/a> Let&#8217;s go back and look at the original three-year run of the series.&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<!--more--><br \/>\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oC2k2CItcSU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nFirst, let&#8217;s set the mood by cranking the shit out of the <em>Project Car Hell Song<\/em>, by Jack Astro &#038; the Asscrackistanis (you may know Jack Astro better as a member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5089174\/the-faster-farms-chickens-suit-up-for-arse-freeze+a+palooza-lemons-glory\">Faster Farms Chickens &#8217;66 Plymouth Belvedere 24 Hours of LeMons team<\/a>).&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20r_sprite_1st_night-600px.jpg\" alt=\"20r_sprite_1st_night-600px\" title=\"20r_sprite_1st_night-600px\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20r_sprite_1st_night-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/20r_sprite_1st_night-600px-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nProject Car Hell came to define the Murilee Martin Lifestyle Brand\u2122, to such an extent that I <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5318190\/20r+powered-sprite-wiring-hell-nearly-complete-it-lives\">bought the 20R-engined Sprite<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/280836\/project-car-hell-fiat-or-austin+healey\">PCH Episode #1<\/a> when, a couple years later, it came up for sale again. So, to get up to speed on the history of Project Car Hell, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/choose-your-eternity\">the original 300+ PCH posts on Jalopnik.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I left Jalopnik and took writing gigs at The Truth About Cars and at Motor Authority, on top of my job as Justice of the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court, I thought that the run of Project Car Hell episodes would be over&#8230; but now Autoweek has talked me into bringing the series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[181],"tags":[391,393,392,474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1623"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1629,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623\/revisions\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}