{"id":490171,"date":"2008-08-01T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=51864"},"modified":"2024-05-24T19:06:09","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T19:06:09","slug":"1952-siata-daina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1952-siata-daina\/","title":{"rendered":"1952 Siata Daina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>For as long as he can remember, James Peacock of Long Beach, California, has been afflicted with a palate for automotive curiosities\u2026a proclivity for the unusual as it were. Worse yet, he\u2019s had a grand master plan\u2026a plan to retire at 40 and spend the second half of his life restoring a warehouse full of what he calls \u201cforgotten cars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the first half of his plan seems to be working quite well. Over the past 20 years Peacock has accumulated so many projects that he won\u2019t actually utter the number. Suffice it to say that his storage area is packed to the rafters with French and Italian small displacement oddities. Oh, there are Simcas (a Sport 8, a Sport 9, and an Aronde Plein Ciel), and Fiats (one 1100PF coupe, one 1100PF convertible, a 124 coupe, and a Fiat Osca), and there\u2019s even an Alfa GTV. But somewhere stuffed in there is a Siata Daina, a car that Peacock bought in 2003 for absolutely no good reason (my guess is that he is simply incapable of turning an orphan away). It is this last car that has caused Peacock to rethink the plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Over the past 20 years Peacock has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":576096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17177,5844],"tags":[17178,1874,20684,20685],"class_list":["post-490171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chassis-histories","category-siata","tag-chassis-histories","tag-siata","tag-siata-chassis-histories","tag-siata-featured"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1952 Siata Daina<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1952 Siata Daina\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1952-siata-daina\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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