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From the Back Seat

A visit to Zelectric Motors and EV West

Editor's Note: This week, we're switching up the schedule and running our installment of From the Back Seat today, then getting Behind the Wheel on Wednesday, for reasons that will become apparent shortly. My mom's birthday was last Sunday, and since I was on Spring Break

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ByNathan
April 17, 2017
From the Back Seat

LEGO Ideas Roundup!

We are on record as LEGO lovers around here (fun fact: my first job was operating rides at Legoland!), and one of the Danish toy giant's coolest programs is the LEGO Ideas process, which affirms that everyone who builds with the bricks is a designer by

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ByNathan
March 22, 2017
1966 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia sales brochure
Junk in the Trunk

1966 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia sales brochure

[metaslider id=758] Bis später, y'all!

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ByNathan
March 17, 2017
Junk in the Trunk

Road & Track, February 1973

When my grandfather died last year, I inherited his collection of Road & Track magazines, encompassing nearly every issue from 1950 to

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ByNathan
March 10, 2017
Classic Volkswagens Square Off
Junk in the Trunk

Classic Volkswagens Square Off

With its new Volkswagen Beetle model joining the classic T1 Camper Van, LEGO has classic VW fans covered two ways I take the "nerd" part of Automotive Nerdery very seriously, so it goes without saying that when LEGO's new Volkswagen Beetle set came out, I made

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ByNathan
October 17, 2016
From the Back Seat

Are all Mk. III Jettas missing rub strips?

This is something that's been bothering me for years. Below are several examples of this mysterious phenomenon that seems to overwhelmingly effect third-generation Volkswagen Jettas, introduced to the U.S. as the Jetta III in 1993 and sold here (sans "III" after the first year) until

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ByNathan
August 30, 2016
From the Back Seat

Searching for redemption at the Concours d’LeMons

True confession time. I still own my first car. We've been together since I was 17. I've put over 30,000 mostly trouble-free miles on it, although it hasn't been my primary car since I was in college, and it has brought me a great deal

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ByNathan
August 23, 2016
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