LOS ANGELES—My nostrils are filled with the scent of old vinyl and gasoline, a smell I’ve long associated with air-cooled Volkswagens. I’m sitting behind the thin-rimmed plastic wheel of a 1973 Type 181, also known as the Volkswagen Thing. It’s a car loaned to us straight from VW’s heritage collection, a museum piece that really...
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