{"id":3719,"date":"2017-12-11T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2017-12-11T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T11:00:22","slug":"mechanical-malarkey-buys-a-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/11\/mechanical-malarkey-buys-a-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Mechanical Malarkey Buys a Truck!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve teased this on Instagram, and yes, I bought a truck. It&#8217;s a 1990 Ford F-250. And it&#8217;s camouflage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3720\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/2017_12_11_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_12_11_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in a bit of rough shape, but it&#8217;s a tank. Power comes from the 4.9 liter 6 cylinder and has a 5 speed transmission. I would&#8217;ve liked a V8 four wheel drive, but this is cool too. To get it ready to go on the road all I really have to do is make the lights work, do an oil change, and paint over the 3&#8217;s on the doors. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ll be making many how-to posts about working on it, because it&#8217;s old and beat up enough that I might not end up following normal procedures.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve teased this on Instagram, and yes, I bought a truck. It&#8217;s a 1990 Ford F-250. And it&#8217;s camouflage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-my-car","tag-used-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}