{"id":13670,"date":"2023-09-26T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=13670"},"modified":"2023-10-01T05:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T05:23:03","slug":"joes-lj-gtr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/joes-lj-gtr\/","title":{"rendered":"Joes LJ GTR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joe&#8217;s LJ GTR<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-13670 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230917_082217-1.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/P1030284-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/P1030284-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/P1030285.jpg' title=\"\" data-rl_title=\"\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/P1030285-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/P1030285-150x150.jpg 150w, 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Then, on a Friday arvo one popped up in Bindoon, north of Perth, wasn&#8217;t blue &#038; not quite red but close enough. It was an older resto that was rundown &#038; let go but a solid car which all checked out so decision was made.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking delivery I stripped the engine bay, brakes, suspension &#038; interior &#038; replaced, restored or repaired everything that needed it&#8230;&#8230;cut &#038; polish on the paint &#038; now have an awesome LJ GTR torana, not quite a show car but a very nice streeter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe&#8217;s LJ GTR Bought my LJ GTR in 2021, I turned 60 that year &#038; with all the hooha going on I needed to &#8216;escape&#8217; so decided to buy a torana. I looked at alot of toranas on sale but I had to narrow it down to&#8230;&#8230; what do I actually want, so I settled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/joes-lj-gtr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Joes LJ GTR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13054,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13670","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/author\/phil\/","display_name":"phil"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 3 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 26, 2023","modified":"Updated on October 1, 2023"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 26, 2023 12:05 am","modified":"Updated on October 1, 2023 5:23 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ctc.jpg","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canberratoranaclub.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}