{"id":6894,"date":"2015-06-26T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=6894"},"modified":"2015-06-26T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T22:00:08","slug":"roadkill-races-the-draguar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=6894","title":{"rendered":"Roadkill Races The Draguar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Randy-Pobst-races-the-Draguar-Roadkill-Episode-41.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6895\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?attachment_id=6895\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Randy-Pobst-races-the-Draguar-Roadkill-Episode-41.jpg?fit=1200%2C662&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,662\" 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;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Randy Pobst races the Draguar Roadkill Episode 41\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Randy Pobst races the Draguar Roadkill Episode 41&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Randy-Pobst-races-the-Draguar-Roadkill-Episode-41.jpg?fit=1024%2C565&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Randy-Pobst-races-the-Draguar-Roadkill-Episode-41.jpg?resize=640%2C353&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Randy Pobst races the Draguar Roadkill Episode 41\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Randy-Pobst-races-the-Draguar-Roadkill-Episode-41.jpg?resize=1024%2C565&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Randy-Pobst-races-the-Draguar-Roadkill-Episode-41.jpg?resize=600%2C331&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Randy-Pobst-races-the-Draguar-Roadkill-Episode-41.jpg?resize=300%2C166&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/engineswapdepot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Randy-Pobst-races-the-Draguar-Roadkill-Episode-41.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Roadkill guys decided to pull two of their favorite projects out of the garage for a shootout with Motor Trend&#8217;s top test driver Randy Pobst. The first car they choose was the Draguar, a 1973 Jaguar XJ12 powered by a 383 ci SBC and Weiand 6-71 supercharger. The second car was the Rotsun, a 1971 Datsun 240Z powered by a 4.3 L Chevy V6 with a turbo from a Ford Powerstroke diesel engine. But like many episodes of Roadkill things don&#8217;t always go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus: The guys visit a private lot where they keep their previous projects and a stock car that has never been on an episode in storage.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-coK8AK8Hqo\" width=\"606\" height=\"341\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-coK8AK8Hqo\">Roadkill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Roadkill guys decided to pull two of their favorite projects out of the garage for a shootout with Motor Trend&#8217;s top test driver Randy Pobst. The first car they choose was the Draguar, a 1973 Jaguar XJ12 powered by a 383 ci SBC and Weiand 6-71 supercharger. The second car was the Rotsun, a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=6894\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roadkill Races The Draguar<\/span><\/a><\/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":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jaguar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10619,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=10619","url_meta":{"origin":6894,"position":0},"title":"Mazdarati Reaches for the 10&#8217;s","author":"swaptastic","date":"June 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Roadkill boys are back in episode 51 to see if they can deliver on the original seller's promise of a 10-second car. 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