{"id":317,"date":"2005-02-03T23:33:40","date_gmt":"2005-02-03T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2017-05-25T06:36:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T06:36:16","slug":"robert-escalante-the-man-behind-custom-auto-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Robert Escalante, The man behind Custom Auto Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feature Article from Hemmings Classic Car<br \/>\nFebruary, 2005 &#8211; Jim Richardson<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWant to buy a brand new 1939 Packard Super Eight Convertible Coupe? Well, you can. And yes, it&#8217;s true, they haven&#8217;t made them since 1939, and all of those that still exist are 65 years old. But what difference does that make if the car is restored to factory standards and put into as new condition? Fact is, essentially new Packards from any of the company&#8217;s golden years can still be purchased or restored at Custom Auto Service in Santa Ana, California, and your classic Packard can also be serviced, maintained and&#8230; <a title=\"Robert Escalante, Custom Auto Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hemmings.com\/hcc\/stories\/2005\/02\/01\/hmn_feature14.html\" target=\"_blank\">READ MORE &#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feature Article from Hemmings Classic Car February, 2005 &#8211; Jim Richardson Want to buy a brand new 1939 Packard Super Eight Convertible Coupe? Well, you can. And yes, it&#8217;s true, they haven&#8217;t made them since 1939, and all of those that still exist are 65 years old. But what difference does that make if the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[66,58,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.customautoservice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}