{"id":678,"date":"2013-01-04T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T02:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2013-01-04T21:22:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T02:22:43","slug":"upgrading-from-plastic-to-real-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Upgrading from plastic to real wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked to learn the original Hurst pistol grip shift handles where made out of plastic.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been trying to source a manufacture for my current Hurst pistol grip shifter assembly for the past 6-8 months.\u00a0 The only place I did find does not make them anymore because their hand carver passed away.\u00a0 Endless searches came up empty.<\/p>\n<p>Well while attending the Turkey Rod Run event, up in Daytona over the Thanksgiving holiday, I found a company willing to try and duplicate then out of real wood for me. I&#8217;ve just sent off my plastic carbon fiber secondary set and hopefully can report back on their attempt to recreate the handles in real wood.<\/p>\n<p>As always, pictures and a complete write up when I have more info to report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was shocked to learn the original Hurst pistol grip shift handles where made out of plastic.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been trying to source a manufacture for my current Hurst pistol grip shifter assembly for the past 6-8 months.\u00a0 The only place &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/?p=678\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myplumcrazychallenger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}