{"id":173180,"date":"2026-04-06T19:59:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T00:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/?p=173180"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T01:53:08","slug":"we-remember-randy-cook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/we-remember-randy-cook\/","title":{"rendered":"We Remember Randy Cook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_87573\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87573\" src=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8a.jpg\" alt=\"sdfsaf\" width=\"780\" height=\"982\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8a.jpg 780w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8a-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/8a-768x967.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Randy Cook in 750 Monza (0518M) at Concorso Italiano.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Pete Vack <\/strong><br \/>\nFrom our Archives, February 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are saddened by the loss of <em>Bowtie Ferraris <\/em>author and vintage racer Randy Cook, who passed away on February 16, 2017 after a being diagnosed with cancer. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I first met Randy, he was carrying a huge, I mean huge, three ring binder bursting with facts and photos of Chevy-engined Ferraris. <\/p>\n<p>He plopped it down in front of me and said, \u201cWell, let\u2019s get to work.\u201d <\/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%2F173180\">Login<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/subscription-account\/subscription-checkout\/?level=1\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Pete Vack From our Archives, February 2017 We are saddened by the loss of Bowtie Ferraris author and vintage racer Randy Cook, who passed away on February 16, 2017 after a being diagnosed with cancer. When I first met Randy, he was carrying a huge, I mean huge, three ring binder bursting with facts... <\/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%2F173180\">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":[15],"tags":[5842,6999,5844,7128,7127],"class_list":{"0":"post-173180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-people","7":"tag-bowtie-ferraris","8":"tag-ferrari-chevs","9":"tag-randy-cook","10":"tag-randy-cook-author","11":"tag-randy-cook-obit","12":"pmpro-level-required","13":"pmpro-level-1","14":"pmpro-no-access","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173180","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=173180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173215,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173180\/revisions\/173215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/velocetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}