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Good time, bad advice, great shirts.\n"},"annotations":[{"startTime":568.24,"endTime":570.8,"type":"car","title":"Challenger Hellcat","url":"/cars/dodge/challenger","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Dodge_Challenger_%281970%29_Hirschaid-20220709-RM-115601.jpg","quote":"...illegal anyways. Yeah, you know, or like a stolen Hellcat. I don't know, you know?","canonicalId":"car:challenger:","priority":0.5,"confidence":1.0,"source":"fuzzy","data":{"imageAttribution":"Ermell (CC BY-SA 4.0)"}},{"startTime":1119.36,"endTime":1121.2,"type":"car","title":"Ford Mustang","url":"/cars/ford/mustang","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/1966_Ford_Mustang_coupe_white_001.jpg","quote":"I was able to buy my first car, which was a Mustang Cobra. 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