{"id":1005,"date":"2012-08-10T08:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2020-10-04T13:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:25:30","slug":"randy-wells-photography-classic-porsche-automotive-travel-music-video-reviews-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/randywells-93901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/randywells-93901.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Copyright Randy Wells. No Rights Granted Without Authorization.\" width=\"330\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/randywells-93901.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/randywells-93901-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE LUCKY AMERICAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest issue of <em>Excellence Magazine<\/em> (204) carries a story of mine on the 1965 Lucky Lager 911 and the early racing career of driver Bruce O&#8217;Neil. <\/p>\n<p>Bruce is certainly &#8220;The Lucky American&#8221; when it comes to racing the early 911 in Europe in 1967. His was a unique experience that would be very hard (if impossible) to repeat. Racing has changed so much. <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>It was an honor to work with Bruce O&#8217;Neil, Walt Maas, and Ed Matsuishi. These guys all feel the same way about this vintage racing 911. It&#8217;s a real warhorse, and I&#8217;m glad to have had the opportunity to document it&#8217;s history accurately for the first time. Thanks to John Thornton, Pete Stout, and John Kirikos for their amazing contributions in presenting this piece.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/excellence-mag.com\">Excellence Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LUCKY AMERICAN The latest issue of Excellence Magazine (204) carries a story of mine on the 1965 Lucky Lager 911 and the early racing career of driver Bruce O&#8217;Neil. Bruce is certainly &#8220;The Lucky American&#8221; when it comes to racing the early 911 in Europe in 1967. His was a unique experience that would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=1005\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,3,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20631,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/20631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}