{"id":27912,"date":"2024-08-25T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T16:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27912"},"modified":"2024-09-12T19:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:40:21","slug":"27912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27912","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alex101CVR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alex101CVR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alex101CVR.jpg 672w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alex101CVR-330x164.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Alex101CVR-150x74.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALEX XYDIAS R.I.P <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another icon of the Bonneville Salt Flats has passed away. He was 102 years old. Alex Xydias was best known for driving the famous So-Cal streamliner in the early days of auto racing. In the late &#8217;40s, he created the first version, made from a drop tank powered by a Flathead Ford V-8 60, built with the help of Dean Batchelor. <\/p>\n<p>With assistance from Neil Emory, Rod&#8217;s grandfather, the car morphed into a version that won the Salt Flat Racing Association&#8217;s first Hot Rod Trophy at the 1949 Bonneville Nationals, with a speed of 193.54 mph. It would become the first to exceed 200 mph. Alex also opened the So-Cal Speed Shop in Burbank, one of the first of its kind in Southern California.  I had the good fortune to meet him once at the Dean Batchelor MPG awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALEX XYDIAS R.I.P Another icon of the Bonneville Salt Flats has passed away. He was 102 years old. Alex Xydias was best known for driving the famous So-Cal streamliner in the early days of auto racing. In the late &#8217;40s, he created the first version, made from a drop tank powered by a Flathead Ford &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=27912\" 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":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27912"}],"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=27912"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27982,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27912\/revisions\/27982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}