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4 Ways To Challenge Your Car Knowledge

COLLABORATIVE CONTENT If anything defines someone who loves cars and car knowledge, it’s adventure, appreciation for beauty and craftsmanship, and a willingness to try new things. Getting behind the wheel and enjoying a long road trip is good for the mind and spirit. It can also be that learning all you can about cars is the work of a lifetime. It’s enjoyment and provides long-term containment. Of course, challenging yourself can also be exhilarating, particularly if you think you already know everything about cars. Car Knowledge Challenge But how can you challenge what you think you know about cars and become further informed? Curiosity is a good starting point, and here are four areas in which to start: Read Outside

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#157, 50 years of driving: Co-hosts talk good, bad, ugly

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 39:49 — 54.7MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | More Turning age 66 doesn’t have the same milestone traditions as ages 40, 50 and 65. But there are connections to the automotive world for me with double six on the horizon, including 50 years of driving. Driving the iconic Route 66 is a bucket list item for many travelers. I’d like to do that at age 66. And for those who acquired their first driver’s license at age 16, a half-century of driving has likely provided plenty of opportunities for reflection. During the past half-century, the automotive industry has advanced with the acceleration of a Tesla. So my friend and co-host Bruce Aldrich

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LA car hoarder’s legacy chronicled in new book

Graveyards of rusty, battered and weed-adorned cars scattered along backcountry roads are a stamp on society’s reliance on motor vehicles. Junkers are junkers, often hoarded and defining automotive blight. But in the chaos of crunched metal, cracked rubber and shattered glass is also history and sometimes rare riches. They’re piles of nirvana for automobile aficionados. Junkyard, the coffee-table book sub-titled Behind the Gates at California’s Secretive European-Car Salvage Yard (Motorbooks, $40) defines the latter. It’s history and mystery acres of abandoned vehicles in fields and warehouses and purposely collected behind high walls in Southern California by the now-deceased Rudi Klein. Originally published in Germany in 2017, the new English-translated volume is the collaborative effort of German photographer Dieter Rebmann and

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#120, Author Patrick Foster celebrates 80 years of Jeep

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:38 — 43.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | MoreAuthor Patrick Foster knows as much as anyone about automaker Jeep. With more than 30 years in the automotive industry, Foster is a prolific journalist, particularly when writing about the long history of the utilitarian, four-wheel-drive vehicles. Co-hosts Bruce Aldrich and James Raia interview Foster in episode #120 of The Weekly Driver Podcast. Foster’s latest book is JEEP: EIGHT DECADES FROM WILLYS TO WRANGLER (Motorbooks $32.99.) Accompanied by more than 200 photographs, the 192-page paperback is described as “the definitive book on the greatest four-wheel-drive vehicle ever.” During our 30-minute interview, Foster details his passion for Jeep and gives an insightful account of the

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#81 Author Libby Edelman on women who love cars

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:01 — 42.6MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | MoreLibby Edelman spent years raising a family, living in several locations around the United States and working as a fashion editor for national magazines. She also spent a lot of time thinking about women who love their cars, a curiosity prompted by a headline in The National Enquirer. While waiting in line at a grocery store one day, Edelman read in the supermarket tabloid about a woman who loved her car so much, she was buried with it. The result, while less bizarre but equally dramatic, is the new book Lovin’ My Car: Women in the Driver’s Seat. Edelman is our guest this week

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