{"id":171490,"date":"2026-01-19T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/?p=171490"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T20:53:19","slug":"gauld-and-the-auburn-douze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/gauld-and-the-auburn-douze\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauld and the Auburn Douze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_171480\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Picture1-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171480\" src=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Picture1-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Picture1-a.jpg 780w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Picture1-a-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Picture1-a-768x496.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-171480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Auburn Douze, a stylish race car for 1940. ( RRM Sothebys )<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story by Graham Gauld<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not a day goes by without some mention in the newspapers about alternatives to using petrol to drive our cars such as electricity or even hydrogen. So how about one of the older alternatives, LPG, liquid petroleum gas, such as propane. Not only that but let\u2019s take an extreme example of this powering a racing car, around 80 years ago; the Auburn Douze.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F171490\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Graham Gauld Not a day goes by without some mention in the newspapers about alternatives to using petrol to drive our cars such as electricity or even hydrogen. So how about one of the older alternatives, LPG, liquid petroleum gas, such as propane. Not only that but let\u2019s take an extreme example of... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro_content_message\">This content is for Premium Subscriber members only.<br \/><a href=\"\/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fvelocetoday.com%2Fwp-json%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F171490\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2818],"tags":[13452,13454,13453,13455,13456,6396],"class_list":{"0":"post-171490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-graham-gauld","7":"tag-auburn","8":"tag-auburn-douze","9":"tag-auburn-race-car","10":"tag-french-auburn","11":"tag-georges-bigata","12":"tag-graham-gauld","13":"pmpro-level-required","14":"pmpro-level-1","15":"pmpro-no-access","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171491,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171490\/revisions\/171491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}