{"id":12687,"date":"2014-07-07T18:31:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/perverted-publicity\/"},"modified":"2019-07-21T09:57:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T08:57:27","slug":"perverted-publicity","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/august-1962\/63\/perverted-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Perverted Publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sir,<\/p>\n<p>I am amazed that such an obviously perspicacious budding Sherlock Holmes as Mr. E. R. Rix should have been beaten.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons why &#8220;Moron,&#8221; in the Lucas advertisement, on the back cover of your May issue, is at a standstill, as anyone can see are:<\/p>\n<p>1. His engine has overheated.<\/p>\n<p>2. His engine has seized due to no oil pressure.<\/p>\n<p>3. He has run out of petrol.<\/p>\n<p>Why he is in a better situation in the second photograph is:<\/p>\n<p>1. Someone, possibly the Rover owner, has slipped him a couple of gallons of fuel,<\/p>\n<p>2. In the interim period his engine has been allowed to cool down.<\/p>\n<p>His oil pressure &#8211; well, perhaps the gauge is unserviceable, like his nearside windscreen washer jet.<\/p>\n<p>JOHN SOULLARD<\/p>\n<p>Thetford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[190],"issue_decade":[121587],"issue_year":[121624],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/12687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/12687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265088,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/12687\/revisions\/265088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=12687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}