{"id":16133,"date":"2017-05-15T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=16133"},"modified":"2017-05-15T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T22:16:26","slug":"david-patterson-drives-wreck-racings-honda-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=16133","title":{"rendered":"David Patterson Drives Wreck Racing&#8217;s Honda Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=16134\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Wreck Racing&amp;#8217;s Honda Insight with a Subaru Flat-six 14\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Wreck Racing&amp;#8217;s Honda Insight with a Subaru Flat-six&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?resize=620%2C349&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Wreck Racing&#039;s Honda Insight with a Subaru Flat-six\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?resize=620%2C349&amp;ssl=1 620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?resize=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=8014\">Wreck Racing&#8217;s very unique Honda Insight<\/a> after they built it for the Grassroots Motorsports $2015 Challenge. Since then they have continued to work on the car and competed in subsequent GRM challenges. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thatdudeinblue\/\">David Patterson<\/a> decided to stopped by an airstrip in Georgia to take the very light Subaru-powered Insight out for a drive.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LJBaruDcQq0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCvLaRcvwQq4RCX-ER_zEG5w\">That Dude in Blue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote about Wreck Racing&#8217;s very unique Honda Insight after they built it for the Grassroots Motorsports $2015 Challenge. Since then they have continued to work on the car and competed in subsequent GRM challenges. David Patterson decided to stopped by an airstrip in Georgia to take the very light Subaru-powered Insight out for a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=16133\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David Patterson Drives Wreck Racing&#8217;s Honda Insight<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insight"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Wreck-Racings-Honda-Insight-with-a-Subaru-Flat-six-14.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8014,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=8014","url_meta":{"origin":16133,"position":0},"title":"Wreck Racing&#8217;s Honda Insight with a Subaru Flat-six","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 28, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Georgia Tech's Wreck Racing has been building amazing race cars for the Grassroots Motorsports Challenge since 2004. 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