{"id":4707,"date":"2012-12-25T11:43:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-25T16:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/?p=4707"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:04:41","slug":"white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2012\/12\/white-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"White Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, believe it or not, we got a WHITE CHRISTMAS here!  We do get snow here in northern Maryland &#8211; some years more than others, but it is pretty rare to get a white Christmas, so it&#8217;s a special year!  Hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas, Joyous Holiday Season, and a Happy New Year! &#8211; Chuck<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4707 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-large'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0590.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0590-1024x680.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0590-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0590-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0590-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4709'>\n\t\t\t\tWhite Christmas Eve!!!  This Series 2 coupe is the only E-Type suffering outdoor storage at the moment, but it&#8217;s actually been a pretty dry Winter so far&#8230;  This red E-type parked under fluffy green pine trees in the snow was about as Christmas-ey as it gets!  You can&#8217;t see the pine trees in these shots, but there is a &#8220;Christmas pine cone&#8221; on the cowl!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05911.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05911-1024x680.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05911-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05911-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05911-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4710'>\n\t\t\t\tThis reminds me of the one and only time that I drove my own E-Type in the snow &#8211; it was at night too, right around Christmas, 1988.  It was snowing pretty hard out, but I was hell-bent to go over to my girlfriend&#8217;s house.  There was about 3-4 inches of snow on the roads, and I could feel the higher lumps dragging along the floors as I went.  It turns out that E-Types actually handle surprisingly well in the snow, although on a Series 1, you have to pull over and wipe off the headlights about every 300 yards!!!  That&#8217;s pretty much how things went back then &#8211; my E-Type was my car, so wherever I went, it took me there &#8211; rain, shine, sleet, or even snow!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05931.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05931-1024x624.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05931-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05931-150x91.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_05931-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4711'>\n\t\t\t\tMy car was still red when that happened, so seeing this last night really took me back&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0594.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0594-1024x680.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0594-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0594-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_0594-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4712'>\n\t\t\t\tThe real Christmas miracle would be if someone would take this car off our hands and give her a good home!  This numbers-matching Series 2 coupe is complete, and runs strong &#8211; she needs metalwork and a new paint job, but after that, most components could simply be re-assembled.  You know, this old girl was really calling out to me last night &#8211; if someone doesn&#8217;t adopt her soon, I just might do it myself!\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, believe it or not, we got a WHITE CHRISTMAS here! We do get snow here in northern Maryland &#8211; some years more than others, but it is pretty rare to get a white Christmas, so it&#8217;s a special year! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/2012\/12\/white-christmas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-e-type-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4707"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11170,"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4707\/revisions\/11170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}