{"id":625623,"date":"2026-06-07T07:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625623\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:47:09","slug":"west-in-pictures-cricketing-triumph-and-bubble-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625623\/","title":{"rendered":"West in Pictures: Cricketing triumph and bubble cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vintage: Wynford Jones, 78, will take his KR200 Messerschmitt, or bubble car, from Taunton to Land&#8217;s End and back for charity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He&#8217;s celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Bristol Microcar Club Rally. He&#8217;s puts pedal to the metal in July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The so-called bubble cars originated in post-World War Two Britain to provide cheap, fuel-efficient transportation amid raw material shortages and economic austerity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vintage: Wynford Jones, 78, will take his KR200 Messerschmitt, or bubble car, from Taunton to Land&#8217;s End and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}