{"id":2373,"date":"2016-02-11T16:55:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T23:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcasar.org\/?page_id=2373"},"modified":"2016-02-25T11:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:04:17","slug":"jeff-gambles-speedster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/?page_id=2373","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Gamble&#8217;s Speedster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2373\"  class=\"panel-layout\"><div id=\"pg-2373-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-has-style\"><div class=\"panel-row-style panel-row-style-for-2373-0\"><div id=\"pgc-2373-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\"><div id=\"panel-2373-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\"><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-2373-0-0-0\"><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\">\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3 class=\"widget-title\">Carrera Speedster (82833) Provenance<\/h3>\n<p>by: Jeff Gamble<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_1443\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1443\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1443 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pcasar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/car-in-storage-2.jpg\" alt=\"car in storage 2\" width=\"204\" height=\"175\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Car in storage<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_1444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1444\" style=\"width: 205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1444 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pcasar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/car-in-storage.jpg\" alt=\"car in storage\" width=\"205\" height=\"175\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vasek Polak dealer license plate frame<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>Some people enjoy the fruits of researching their Family tree through the power of the internet. It was by Gamble luck to learn the history of Carrera Speedster 82833.\u00a0 The silver '57 Speedster would become like a family member when in 1968 fellow PCA Autocross pal Sam Balsley made a trip to California to trade his Pre A cabriolet for a Porsche that was faster than all the other Speedsters. Sam wound up at none other than Vasek Polak's and traded that old red Cab for a Silver Carrera Speedster.\u00a0 This car had all the trim\u00a0shaved off and the 4 cam engine sounded like music to all of us.\u00a0 However, unfortunately for Sam, the mighty Carrera quickly proved once again non-competitive at the tight autocrosses. Graduating from college Sam moved away from Tucson to Northern California, running the car at the Cotati race track with some success.\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/?page_id=2373#more-2373\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrera Speedster (82833) Provenanceby: Jeff GambleSome people enjoy the fruits of researching their Family tree through the power of the internet. It was by Gamble luck to learn the history [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":28,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6155,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2373\/revisions\/6155"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcasar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}