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Shop Talk: See the (Sky)Light in a Vistabule Teardrop
In September 2011, Bert Taylor decided he wanted a new challenge. In the past, he’d started a company that made furniture assembled with wine corks. He’d been a woodworker who…
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Shop Talk: Gateway Bronco Restores the Luster
Seth Burgett’s infatuation with cars started long before he could drive. He remembers first being fascinated by vehicle mechanics as a kid, sitting on an engine piston in his neighbor’s…
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Shop Talk: Benchmark Vehicles are Setting the Mark
The Central Eastside is Portland, Oregon’s burly quadrant, a century-plus-old industrial zone full of muscular brick warehouses, a working neighborhood to the core. Duck into one cavernous garage in particular…
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Shop Talk: Nomadicana Brings A Touch of Silver
Nate Kantor keeps his first Airstream parked outside the Nomadicana warehouse on the western outskirts of Salt Lake City. When days of installing air foam, polishing aluminum and carving cabinetry…
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Shop Talk: Grand Design is the Heir Apparent
This past summer, the Indiana factory making Grand Design’s newest vehicle was itself a work in progress. Starting at a bracing early hour, the plant’s largely Amish crew moved the…
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Shop Talk: The Teardrop From Tomorrow
Shop: Polydrops Location: Glendale, CA Founded: 2017 Specialty: Teardrop Trailers Kyunghyun Lew never set out to build a revolutionary camper. He certainly didn’t plan on designing what he calls a…
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Shop Talk: Vanlife Vanguard
Shop: Campo Location: Santa Barbar, CA Founded: 2014 Specialty: Camper Vans “I was very irritated right off the bat,” remembers Robyn Beck, recalling the day in 2008 that her husband,…