{"id":996,"date":"2021-12-08T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=996"},"modified":"2021-12-08T07:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T07:20:59","slug":"look-a-little-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Looking a little closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s the geek in me, but some of the period stuff on the car I just find so cool.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the days before all this 01&#8230; phone number nonsense&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9486.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-992\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9486.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9486-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9486-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Conveniently this also shows just how gubbed the window seals are!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9483.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-993\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9483.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9483-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9485.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-994\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9485.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_9485-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Inside escaped the majority of the dust, despite the electric window being jammed down on the driver&#8217;s side the entire time it was parked up. It also smells fantastic, genuinely, not sarcasm. Real leather, fake leather, vinyl, fibreglass, wood, oil, just brilliant!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_6560.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-999\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_6560.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/img_6560-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interesting engine bay this, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s quite right. The radiator set up looks like the one from the Plus2 130S variant rather than an S4 but I can&#8217;t be sure. An awful lot of Elan engine bay shots have uprated or altered cooling systems, with good reason, it was an overheating incident which saw ours parked up in the bad books.<\/p>\n<p>It is a Stromberg carburettor equipped car, which means it&#8217;s not got as much power potential as it&#8217;s Weber clad brethren, but by all accounts, it&#8217;s the more streetable engine and that&#8217;s ultimately what the car will used for. Despite the (half)cage, there aren&#8217;t any motorsport aspirations for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s the geek in me, but some of the period stuff on the car I just find so cool. Remember the days before all this 01&#8230; phone number nonsense&#8230;? Conveniently this also shows just how gubbed the window seals are! Inside escaped the majority of the dust, despite the electric window being jammed down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[26,25,27,44],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcnab-racing.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}