{"id":492608,"date":"2012-09-01T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=25567"},"modified":"2024-02-28T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T11:37:44","slug":"mike-kunz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/mike-kunz\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Kunz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i>VR<\/i>: So, how did you first come to cars? Was it as a kid?<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>MK:<\/b> I was a car kid, I guess. Before I could recognize anything else and could name anything else, it was cars. 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