{"id":207689,"date":"2023-03-10T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/uncategorized\/hunter-from-the-50-s\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:50:07","slug":"hunter-from-the-50-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/hunter-from-the-50-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter from the 50’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bocar XP-5 was created by the American racing driver Bob Carnes in the late 1950s. The manufacturer aimed for a sports car that would be faster than his modified Jaguar XK120 – a car in which he had fitted a Cadillac V8 before giving it the nickname “Jagillac”. Carnes developed an oval-shaped design chassis, and then fitted suspension, braking and transmission components from sports cars of the era.<\/p>\n

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The Bocar XP-5 was introduced in mid-1959 and despite the fact that only 15 were built, it became a legend in 1950s sports car circles. As for the mechanical part, power came from a Corvette V8 engine with an output of 290 horsepower. This particular Bocar XP-5 which is available for sale was built decades after the prototypes by Bocar specialist Doug Karon, who wanted a car for his own use.<\/p>\n

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Apart from the exterior, the interventions that have been made to the XP-5’s cabin are obviously well thought out with the brown-dark shades dominating. Today, the remaining models are highly sought after, with prices in some cases even exceeding $250,000.<\/p>\n

Images courtesy of Bring a Trailer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bocar XP-5 was created by the American racing driver Bob Carnes in the late 1950s. The manufacturer aimed for a sports car that would be faster than his modified Jaguar XK120 – a car in which he had fitted a Cadillac V8 before giving it the nickname “Jagillac”. Carnes developed an oval-shaped design chassis, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":207686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18542],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}