{"id":1150,"date":"2008-03-27T20:42:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T10:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2008-03-27T21:57:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T11:57:28","slug":"barretts-steam-volkswagon-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Barrett&#8217;s steam volkswagon for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/ebaymotors\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&#038;item=130208756898\"><strong>Peter Barrett&#8217;s experimental steam car is up for sale<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; currently at US$20,000 (my guess would be a UK bid from Jeff Theobold &#8211; one of the few who could make real use of this amazing vehicle.<br \/>\nThe car uses two cylinders of a converted VW engine and is mounted in a fibreglass kit car. It is reported to have been run at 80mph. The car comes with full design notes &#8211; Peter Barrett was a meticulous engineer and every aspect is documented. It would be great to see this car go to someone capable of understanding the system and getting it on the road as a modern turnkey steam car.<br \/>\nSome of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firedragon.com\/~kap\/Barrett\/\"><strong>Barrett&#8217;s notes are here<\/strong><\/a>, so you can see the kind of work that has gone into this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s305.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn216\/ecliktek\/Barrett%20Steam%20Car\/?action=view&#038;current=BarrettSteamCar.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i305.photobucket.com\/albums\/nn216\/ecliktek\/Barrett%20Steam%20Car\/BarrettSteamCar.jpg\"   width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Barrett Steam Car\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it sells for less than US$50,000 the buyer will have quite a bargain &#8211; with 20 years of documentation. This is an outstanding opportunity for the right buyer. (why can&#8217;t I just win lotto now?).<\/p>\n<p>Cheers<br \/>\nJerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Peter Barrett&#8217;s experimental steam car is up for sale &#8211; currently at US$20,000 (my guess would be a UK bid from Jeff Theobold &#8211; one of the few who could make real use of this amazing vehicle. The car uses two cylinders of a converted VW engine and is mounted in a fibreglass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-steam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lostbiro.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}