{"id":173130,"date":"2026-03-30T19:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/?p=173130"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:53:31","slug":"brandes-elitch-at-the-al-engel-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/brandes-elitch-at-the-al-engel-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandes Elitch at the Al Engel Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_173032\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15-ardun-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173032\" class=\"size-large wp-image-173032\" src=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15-ardun-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15-ardun-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15-ardun-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15-ardun-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15-ardun-2.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-173032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the Ardun heads on the test bed.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story and photos by Brandes Elitch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In mid-March our local Packard Club chapter hosted a tour of the Al Engel museum, just across the bay from San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>It was an extraordinary experience. I have been in many car museums in the US and Europe, but I have never seen anything like this.<\/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%2F173130\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and photos by Brandes Elitch In mid-March our local Packard Club chapter hosted a tour of the Al Engel museum, just across the bay from San Francisco. It was an extraordinary experience. I have been in many car museums in the US and Europe, but I have never seen anything like this.... <\/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%2F173130\">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":[7864],"tags":[13017,13565,13564,331,13567,13566],"class_list":{"0":"post-173130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-oddballs","7":"tag-aircraft-museums","8":"tag-al-engel","9":"tag-al-engel-museum","10":"tag-brandes-elitch","11":"tag-california-car-museums","12":"tag-us-car-museums","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\/173130","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=173130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173154,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173130\/revisions\/173154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}