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Author: Tyler Bridges

Grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana where knowing your way around a truck was not optional. Competed in desert rally events through his twenties, then spent eight years as fleet manager for a construction firm, overseeing everything from F-150 work trucks to heavy-duty service rigs. Now writes full-time, splitting the year between truck and UTV reviews and overlanding trips across the western U.S.
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Motorcycles

1980s BMW Motorcycles: Airheads, G/S and the K-Series

BMW’s motorcycle division spent the early 1980s in a corner. The boxer twin, a layout the company had been building since 1923,…

Tyler Bridges·11 MIN READ
Car Lists

Popular Cars in 2014: The 12 Best Sellers, Then and Now

2014 was the year American buyers kept choosing the same sensible sedans and started drifting toward trucks and crossovers. Toyota sold more…

Tyler Bridges·8 MIN READ
Motorcycles

1970s Can-Am Motorcycles: The Complete Model Guide

Today the Can-Am name sits on ATVs and three-wheeled Spyders. In the 1970s it sat on motocross bikes that won AMA national…

Tyler Bridges·7 MIN READ
Car Guides

2007 Toyota Models: Complete List and Best Used Buys

Toyota’s 2007 lineup ran from a Yaris under $13,000 to a Land Cruiser over $60,000, and it was one of the more…

Tyler Bridges·14 MIN READ
Cars

Old Dodge Models: Discontinued Cars, Trucks and Vans

Dodge has built cars since 1914, and the list of dead nameplates is long. Most roundups of old Dodge models stop at…

Tyler Bridges·10 MIN READ
Classic Cars

1951 Volkswagen Car Models: Every VW You Could Buy

Volkswagen built essentially two cars in 1951: the Beetle and the Transporter. The Beetle came in four flavors, and the difference between…

Tyler Bridges·6 MIN READ
Classic Cars

“1953 Chevrolet Models: Every Series, Explained”

Most write-ups on the 1953 Chevrolet lineup pick a lane. You get a Bel Air retrospective here, a 3100 truck feature there,…

Tyler Bridges·8 MIN READ
History

The 1950 Volkswagen Lineup: Beetle and the New Transporter

Table of Contents TLDR: What Volkswagen Sold in 1950 Two model lines, five configurations. The Type 1 Beetle came as a Standard…

Tyler Bridges·6 MIN READ
Classic Cars

Cars Made in 1985: Icons, Bestsellers and Flops

Most retrospectives on cars made in 1985 pick a lane: either eight halo cars and a soft-focus nostalgia trip, or a spreadsheet…

Tyler Bridges·9 MIN READ
Guides

1990 Ford Cars: The Complete Model-by-Model Guide

Ford’s 1990 lineup was a company mid-transition. The Taurus had already rewired what an American sedan was supposed to look like, the…

Tyler Bridges·10 MIN READ
History

Every 1980s Volkswagen Model, From Rabbit to Vanagon

Ask ten Volkswagen owners to name the definitive 1980s VW and you’ll get ten different answers, because the lineup wasn’t one lineup.…

Tyler Bridges·9 MIN READ