{"id":1684,"date":"2018-07-06T22:31:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T22:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/?p=1684"},"modified":"2024-03-11T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:30:01","slug":"wtf-friday-falcon-punched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/2018\/07\/06\/wtf-friday-falcon-punched\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF Friday: Falcon Punched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The creativity of individuals when presented with a bushel of lemons never ceases to astound. Skyler Bethel had single owner, low km 1964 Ford Falcon roll into his shop and <em>usually<\/em> that would be a good thing but that wasn\u2019t the case with this bird.<\/p>\n<p>This particular Falcon has a tree fall on top of it creating significant damage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanceiseverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorcycle-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62789 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"928\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorcycle-2-768x1024-1.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unsure of what to do with his twisted metal the owner sold the car to Skyler on the cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Skyler parted out what he could of the car, but kept the running gear because it had quite a bit of life left in it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorcycle-1.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62788 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorcycle-1.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting with he drive line, he made an interesting sort of transaxle out of the motor, a very short drive shaft, and the transmission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanceiseverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorycle-6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62792 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorycle-6-1024x768-1.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A lot of creativity, a coil spring, and some square tube later and Skyler was one tractor seat away from a very custom trike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanceiseverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/faclon-motorcycle-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62787 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/faclon-motorcycle-3-1024x768-1.webp\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanceiseverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorcycle-4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62790 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorcycle-4-1024x768-1.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He built the car, or bike, or whatever it can be registered as, in a mere 18 days. It\u2019s mostly completed but he plans on finishing up the handle bars a bit better and adding some more tasteful tail lights.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanceiseverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorcycle-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62791 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/falcon-motorcycle-5-1024x768-1.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For 18 days work of work though, this trike isn\u2019t all that much to scoff at. Probably won\u2019t win any beauty pageants but imagine it\u2019s one hell of a drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creativity of individuals when presented with a bushel of lemons never ceases to astound. Skyler Bethel had single owner, low km 1964 Ford Falcon roll into his shop and usually that would be a good thing but that wasn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eoffer.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}