{"id":1364,"date":"2009-02-01T18:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2017-10-29T02:12:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T02:12:36","slug":"car-love-ronald-reagans-subaru-brat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=1364","title":{"rendered":"Car Love &#8211; Ronald Reagan&#8217;s Subaru Brat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Car%20Love%20-%20Ronald%20Reagan%27s%20Subaru%20Brat%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>His 1978 Subaru Brat has been restored <a href=\"https:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5877037\/how-ronald-reagan-became-a-secret-subaru-test-driver\">to its former glory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/japanesenostalgiccar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/subaru_brat_ronald_reagan.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WOW!!! Pretty!!! I had no idea he owned a Brat! Makes sense. He was a rugged individualist, and nothing says rugged individualist like a Subaru Brat. Yet more proof Reagan was smarter than liberals give him credit for. (JK )<\/p>\n<p>Being a Subaru fanatic, this makes my day! I always had a soft spot for the Brat. Such a unique car&#8230; er, truck&#8230; er, whatever. For those who don&#8217;t remember, the Brat had jump seats in the back of the bed, exposing you to the elements.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yp7AmXkFZjE\/VIWYxofeQ_I\/AAAAAAAAJ4Y\/nUPfz-TNl3w\/s1600\/1982_Subaru_Brat_DL_For_Sale_Rear_resize.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can remember more than one Boy Scouts camping trip, riding in the back of my Junior Scout Master&#8217;s white 1980 Brat, Pink Floyd&#8217;s <em>&#8220;The Wall&#8221;<\/em> blasting from the 8 watt stereo, almost freezing my orbs off. But that was part of the fun. Subaru was a pioneer of Shift-On-The-Fly 4 Wheel Drive. Sure the engine was not the most powerful thing in the world, but like most Subies in those days, shift into low gear 4WD, they could go anywhere. People often freaked when they saw the location of the spare, a feature common on Subaru&#8217;s up to the 90&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said &#8211; unique!<\/p>\n<p>The BRAT was featured in the Burt Reynolds movie Hooper.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/600x315\/9f\/63\/dd\/9f63dda91a8932cecdc104bceb5ac9a1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ah&#8230; Those were the days.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago Subaru tried to recapture the Brat magic with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmunds.com\/subaru\/baja\/review.html\">Baja<\/a>, but it just wasn&#8217;t the same..<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I own <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=311\">two Subies<\/a> &#8211; Murphy, the $500 87 Turbo Wagon, and Red, the 94 Legacy Alpine Wagon (heated seats ROCK!!!) I buy broken down Sub&#8217;s for nothing, then fix them up and their good to go. Subaru&#8217;s are by far one of the easiest cars to work on&#8230; Period. They are the automotive equivalent of Lego&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip: My friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=311\">Ultimate Subaru.Org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS. Reagan&#8217;s restored Subie turned out great, but these, I&#8217;m afraid <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=210\">were beyond hope of saving<\/a>. 2006 was not a good year for older Subarus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Car%20Love%20-%20Ronald%20Reagan%27s%20Subaru%20Brat%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>His 1978 Subaru Brat has been restored to its former glory. WOW!!! Pretty!!! I had no idea he owned a Brat! Makes sense. He was a rugged individualist, and nothing says rugged individualist like a Subaru Brat. Yet more proof Reagan was smarter than liberals give him credit for. (JK ) Being a Subaru fanatic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8821,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/8821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}