{"id":37346,"date":"2019-08-09T16:44:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/?p=37346"},"modified":"2019-08-09T16:44:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T16:44:01","slug":"30-common-restoration-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/30-common-restoration-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Common Restoration Mistakes \u2013 And How To Avoid Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Typical Errors and Misconceptions We All Make &#8211; And How to Avoid Them<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"25%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/mm5\/graphics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/MSCP-160500-COVER-145x200.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"intro\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>Written by Jim Smart March 9, 2016<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>OK, admit it. You&#8217;re tempted to cruise past this article, yet you can&#8217;t resist the desire to read it to see if you&#8217;ve made at least one of these mistakes building a classic muscle car. Most of them come from inexperience and doing what we believe to be right. But you don&#8217;t know what you don&#8217;t know. After some sort of blunder we may think, &#8220;How stupid,&#8221; but it&#8217;s more about ignorance of a procedure or an approach than stupidity. We&#8217;re here to help you get it right the first time with a string of mistakes and corrections, some of which we&#8217;ve made ourselves during some 40 years of car building.<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotrod.com\/articles\/30-stupid-restoration-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More Here&#8230;<\/a><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.hotrod.com\/articles\/30-stupid-restoration-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"800\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typical Errors and Misconceptions We All Make &#8211; And How to Avoid Them Written by Jim Smart March 9, 2016 OK, admit it. You&#8217;re tempted to cruise past this article, yet you can&#8217;t resist the desire to read it to see if you&#8217;ve made at least one of these mistakes building a classic muscle car. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":40935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,18,67,19],"tags":[178,179,100],"class_list":["post-37346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-installations-videos","category-magazine-articles","category-special-interest","category-tech-info","tag-avoid","tag-mistake","tag-restoration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moderndriveline.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}