{"id":8007,"date":"2003-05-10T18:33:25","date_gmt":"2003-05-10T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8007"},"modified":"2003-05-10T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2003-05-10T18:33:25","slug":"corbin-motors-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8007","title":{"rendered":"Corbin Motors in Trouble?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/corbin1.jpg\" align=\"left\">If there&#8217;s a company that puts the Street in StreetTech, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corbin.com\">Corbin<\/a> with their motor company&#8217;s Merlin Roadster a favorite of ST gear-heads. But it looks like the Merlin Roadster and Coupes (pictured) may never put rubber to road. The Corbin Motor Company has been forced to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy because of investor trouble. Given the amount of $3.8 mill in debt and investigations into the fund-raising done by Corbin Motors, it looks like your only chance to own a Merlin is to look for the possible liquidation sale. I know I&#8217;ll have my eyes open for a rolling chasis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there&#8217;s a company that puts the Street in StreetTech, it&#8217;s Corbin with their motor company&#8217;s Merlin Roadster a favorite of ST gear-heads. But it looks like the Merlin Roadster and Coupes (pictured) may never put rubber to road. The Corbin Motor Company has been forced to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy because of investor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Corbin Motors in Trouble?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}