{"id":16634,"date":"2011-11-18T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T07:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=16634"},"modified":"2011-11-18T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T07:00:19","slug":"overland-coupe-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2011\/11\/18\/overland-coupe-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Overland Coupe donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16635\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Road-Sirs-donate-to-car-restoration-11-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>On Thursday, Jan Dunlap, representing the Road Sirs Car Club, presented Van Wert Historical Society Treasurer Ron Kessler with a $1,000 donation toward restoration of the 1917 Overland Opera Touring Coupe.\u00a0This automobile was originally owned by the Charles Wassenberg family and later sold to the Paul Jones family.\u00a0It is presently being dismantled and restored by a host of volunteers. It has been estimated that it will cost between $12,000 and $15,000 to completely restore this one-of-a-kind vehicle.\u00a0There are no known other Overland vehicles of this model in existence in the United States.\u00a0When restoration is completed in 2-3 years, the vehicle will valued at substantially more than the cost of the restoration.<\/strong> <em>(Historical Society photo)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Jan Dunlap, representing the Road Sirs Car Club, presented Van Wert Historical Society Treasurer Ron Kessler with a $1,000 donation toward restoration of the 1917 Overland Opera Touring Coupe.\u00a0This automobile was originally owned by the Charles Wassenberg family and later sold to the Paul Jones family.\u00a0It is presently being dismantled and restored by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 11:22:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}