{"id":459818,"date":"2002-10-01T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2002-10-02T01:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=109273"},"modified":"2024-02-23T03:22:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T03:22:54","slug":"bob-curl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/bob-curl-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Curl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Bob Curl is one of numerous British sports car constructors who dabbled in long distance racing for the sheer love of it in the late 1960s. At the time, long distance grids had numerous English specials and small production racers\u2014Nomad, Daren and Dulon, just to name a few. 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