{"id":8477,"date":"2015-04-02T10:53:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=8477"},"modified":"2015-04-03T12:37:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T19:37:20","slug":"rip-to-be-in-attendance-at-2015-vancouver-abfm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=8477","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;RIP&#8217; to be in attendance at 2015 Vancouver ABFM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8478\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?attachment_id=8478\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8478\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8478\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8478\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1961-MGA-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"1961 Australian-assembled MGA.\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1961-MGA-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1961-MGA.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1961 Australian-assembled MGA.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 2015 Vancouver ABFM, which will be held on Saturday May 16 at the VanDusen Garden, will host a crowd of MGAs in celebration of the vehicle&#8217;s 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>One of the more than 50 MGAs in attendance will be an Australian-assembled roadster, which has been driven more than 193,000 kilometres around the world since Dave and Laurel Godwin took ownership of the car in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The Godwins are members of the North American MGA Register as well as the Gold Coast MG Car Club, and while their vehicle carries the license plate &#8220;RIP&#8221;, it does not appear that this very special MGA will &#8220;rest in peace&#8221; any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>Click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mgpanamerica.mgcc.com.au\/rip.shtml\">here<\/a><\/strong> to read more details about the Godwins MGA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2015 Vancouver ABFM, which will be held on Saturday May 16 at the VanDusen Garden, will host a crowd of MGAs in celebration of the vehicle&#8217;s 60th anniversary. One of the more than 50 MGAs in attendance will be an Australian-assembled roadster, which has been driven more than 193,000 kilometres around the world since<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=8477\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-british-field-meet","category-mg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8492,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8477\/revisions\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}