{"version":"1.0.0","episode":{"title":"Pandora's Box","url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/pandora-s-box","audioUrl":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/337496/2630556/the-reckon-yard-podcast/2026_03_15_20_44_07_e62e1ddb-90d6-4c94-86cb-d0ea37e884b6.mp3","description":"JW closes out the season with stories about every time technology made his skills obsolete,the print shop, NDT, foundation repair, what he did about it. Plus a trip to Fredericksburg, the S10 Lot Legends video, a 4L60E update, a new episode of Duwali Bottoms Texas."},"annotations":[{"startTime":652.1,"endTime":661.3,"type":"car","title":"Chevrolet S10","url":"/cars/chevrolet/s-10-blazer","image":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/1991_Chevrolet_S-10_Blazer_Tahoe_4-Door_4x4.jpg","quote":"I pretty clearly state in the beginning of the video that before the S10, Chevrolet was buying little Japanese pickups and rebadging them. 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It was the first small truck designed in the US by big American car companies instead of just copying Japanese trucks.","imageAttribution":"MercurySable99 (CC BY-SA 4.0)"}},{"startTime":657.2,"endTime":661.3,"type":"concept","title":"rebadging","url":"/glossary/rebadging","quote":"I pretty clearly state in the beginning of the video that before the S10, Chevrolet was buying little Japanese pickups and rebadging them.","canonicalId":"concept:rebadging","priority":0.5,"confidence":1.0,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-4.1-mini","data":{"explanation":"Rebadging is the practice of selling a vehicle under a different brand or nameplate, often with minimal changes. In this context, Chevrolet was rebadging small Japanese pickups before designing its own compact pickup, the S10.","simplifiedExplanation":"Rebadging means selling the same truck or car but with a different brand's name on it. 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