Subaru Bolted Two Seats in the Bed to Dodge a 25% Tax - The BRAT Story

The story of the Subaru BRAT, the small four-wheel-drive pickup with two seats bolted into its cargo bed: how a nineteen sixties trade war created the loophole, how Subaru used it, what the BRAT was like to drive, why it became a symbol of the nineteen eighties, why it vanished, and why fans pay serious money for it now. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:01 The chicken tax 1:53 The loophole 2:44 The Brat 3:32 The lifestyle 4:19 The run and the end 5:06 The end of the Brat 5:37 The chicken tax today 6:11 A cult classic 6:43 Buying a Brat 8:00 The lesson 8:47 Recap Sources: Subaru Corporation and Subaru of America history of the BRAT U.S. tariff schedule history of the 1964 light-truck tariff known as the chicken tax Contemporary U.S. press coverage of the Subaru BRAT Image credits (resized and cropped for video): 34 public-domain / CC0 images (no attribution required). --- Voiceover is produced with AI text-to-speech. Images are licensed (public domain or Creative Commons) and credited in each video description. Sources are listed above for every number in the video. #cars #automotive #MitchTannerCar