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David Tracy

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Co-founder @The_Autopian, ex-Jalopnik tech editor, former Jeep engineer, German, Kansan, army brat, offroad enthusiast, wrenching beast. david@autopian.com
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How California’s ‘Registration Wizard’ Got My Two Sketchy Jeeps Street-Legal

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By David Tracy Verified
| The Autopian
His name is Billy, and his business, “Pasadena Motor Vehicle Registration & Transfer Service,” shares a nondescript building with his small used-car dealership off of Pasadena’s busy Foothill Boulevard. A few months ago I walked in with two huge problems: I had a car with zero paperwork, and I had another car that the world didn’t know existed.
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Here’s How Much It Cost Me To Build A Brand New WWII Jeep

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By David Tracy Verified
| The Autopian
Assembling a brand new WWII Jeep from hundreds of individual parts was extremely difficult. It would have been one thing to purchase everything as a huge set, but as the purpose was to demonstrate the enormity of eBay Motors’s WWII Jeep parts selection, I decided to buy almost all the parts one-by-one. This led to a few challenges: 1. There were boxes; lots of boxes. 2. Figuring out how to organize (not lose) things was not easy and 3.
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Dyeing Clothes In Motor Oil, The Slate EV Truck, Our Ebay Jeep Project: Watch Us On The Smoking Tire Podcast

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By David Tracy Verified
| The Autopian
Zack Klappman and Matt Farah from The Smoking Tire podcast have been successful for lots of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that they’re just great people. Zack and Matt are two car geeks with serious range; they’ll talk all day about supercars and precise handling and luxury interior materials, but they’ll also chat with Griffin and me about oil-stained clothing and a hand-built WWII Jeep.
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