{"id":2790,"date":"2013-08-20T04:57:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2013-08-20T04:57:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T04:57:02","slug":"tractor-pulling-vw-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"Tractor Pulling VW Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great video showing a tractor pulling VW Golf powered by a V8. I couldn&#8217;t find anymore information on this so if anyone knows more about this please leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ryl0tNFrCjs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bangshift.com\/blog\/video-someone-in-europe-put-a-gnarly-blown-v8-into-a-vw-golf-and-made-it-a-pulling-truck-we-love-them.html\">BangShift<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great video showing a tractor pulling VW Golf powered by a V8. I couldn&#8217;t find anymore information on this so if anyone knows more about this please leave a comment. Source: BangShift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122296,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=122296","url_meta":{"origin":2790,"position":0},"title":"Electric VW Golf","author":"swaptastic","date":"October 22, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This 1991 Golf GTI (Mk2) was sent to eDub Conversions in the UK to be converted to electric. 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