{"id":15953,"date":"2008-03-01T03:18:30","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T03:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2019-01-27T04:53:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T04:53:36","slug":"truly-an-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/2008\/03\/01\/truly-an-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly an Original"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether building hot rods or high rises, Mike Harrah only knows how to go full throttle<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a profile for Velocity, a magazine targeted at car enthusiasts in Orange County, Mike Harrah shared stories of his favorite car acquisitions. There was his first car, a 1956 Chevy Nomad he bought at age 14 and restored from the ground up\u2014taking it from an immovable heap filled with acorns and sporting four flat tires to a loved machine he drove for nine years.\u00a0 Harrah also remembered the time he was cited by the DMV with a $1,200 fine for selling cars without a dealer\u2019s license.\u00a0 He was 17-years-old and would buy decrepit, perform basic maintenance and turn them around for a profit.\u00a0 Even in those early years, it was clear that Mike didn\u2019t just love working with his hands, he also knew how to turn that drive into a successful business. Writer Patrick C. Paternie aptly describes, \u201cDeveloper Mike Harrah lives the lifestyle of a highflying, high horsepower renaissance man. He\u2019s equally at home sitting on drums for ZZ Top, the driver\u2019s seat of his 3000 HP, 632 cubic inch Chevy Dragster, the head table at his award winning Ambrosia restaurant, or the pilot\u2019s chair of his Gulfstream G IV business jet. \u201cMike\u2019s personal garage has come a long way from that Chevy Nomad, but his love for fast cars and fast living remains the same.<\/p>\n

Read more in the March\/April 2008 Velocity Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether building hot rods or high rises, Mike Harrah only knows how to go full throttle In a profile for Velocity, a magazine targeted at car enthusiasts in Orange County, Mike Harrah shared stories of his favorite car acquisitions. There was his first car, a 1956 Chevy Nomad he bought at age 14 and restored from the ground up\u2014taking it from an immovable heap filled with acorns and sporting four flat tires to a loved machine he drove for nine years.\u00a0 Harrah also remembered the time he was cited by the DMV with a $1,200 fine for selling cars without a dealer\u2019s license.\u00a0 He was 17-years-old and would buy decrepit, perform basic maintenance and turn them around for a profit.\u00a0 Even in those early years, it was clear that Mike didn\u2019t just love working with his hands, he also knew how to turn that drive into a successful business. Writer Patrick C. Paternie aptly describes, \u201cDeveloper Mike Harrah lives the lifestyle of a highflying, high horsepower renaissance man. He\u2019s equally at home sitting on drums for ZZ Top, the driver\u2019s seat of his 3000 HP, 632 cubic inch Chevy Dragster, the head table at his award winning Ambrosia restaurant, or the pilot\u2019s chair of his Gulfstream G IV business jet. \u201cMike\u2019s personal garage has come a long way from that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15955,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions\/15955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}