With VW resurrecting the Scout name for an all-electric off-road brand, what better time to learn its history?

The startup electric truck from Scout stretches the original's proportions into something modern and hopefully useful.

If you have the time and the know-how, or more realistically if you have the disposable income, you can do virtually anything with a car. You could turn a MazdaSpeed Protoge into a mini truck, you ...