{"id":43322,"date":"2022-03-25T21:44:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T21:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43322"},"modified":"2022-03-25T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T21:51:47","slug":"american-culture-did-magnum-pi-drive-a-v8-or-v12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/american-culture-did-magnum-pi-drive-a-v8-or-v12\/","title":{"rendered":"American culture: did Magnum PI drive a V8 or V12?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about 80s TV: the tutor mentions a discovery about Magnum PI&#8217;s car.<\/h2>\n<p>\nFamously, PI Thomas Magnum drove a red Ferrari on the hit hour-long crime-drama Magnum PI (1980-88). It&#8217;s hard to separate the car from the show; both propelled each other&#8217;s fame. Whether you watched Magnum PI, or not, you heard about it all the time back then.<\/p>\n<p>\nApparently, the car itself was a Ferrari 308 GTS, which had a V8 (rather than a V12). The one used in &#8217;84-85 was around 3.0L and produced around 230hp.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting, eh?<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evo.co.uk\/ferrari\/308\">evo.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorbiscuit.com\/what-ferrari-did-magnum-pi-drive\/\">motorbiscuit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080240\/\">imdb.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about 80s TV: the tutor mentions a discovery about Magnum PI&#8217;s car. Famously, PI Thomas Magnum drove a red Ferrari on the hit hour-long crime-drama Magnum PI (1980-88). It&#8217;s hard to separate the car from the show; both propelled &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/american-culture-did-magnum-pi-drive-a-v8-or-v12\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American culture: did Magnum PI drive a V8 or V12?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2970],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43326,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43322\/revisions\/43326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}