{"id":1103,"date":"2017-12-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acpmotorsports.com\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:38:31","slug":"why-wednesday-vol-231-bmw-m1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/why-wednesday-vol-231-bmw-m1\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Wednesday vol-231 #BMW M1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This American Bob Gregg racing team BMW M1 started as a group 5 car. BMW delayed the group 5 engine several times so they resorted to switching to a big block Chevy as the M1 was underpowered. Then Group 5 went away and they did this to it and ran as a prototype. The car never really worked in any form. <a><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium_large wp-image-1104\" src=\"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bmw_racing-750x500.jpg\" alt=\"BMW M1 chevy prototype\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bmw_racing-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bmw_racing-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bmw_racing-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bmw_racing-642x428.jpg 642w, https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/bmw_racing.jpg 1274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This American Bob Gregg racing team BMW M1 started as a group 5 car. BMW delayed the group 5 engine several times so they resorted to switching to a big block Chevy as the M1 was underpowered. Then Group 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[88,86],"class_list":["post-1103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-why","tag-ugly-racecar","tag-vintage-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41000,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/41000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internal-combustion.com\/nuvolari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}