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MotorTrend Presents: Ghost Town with the Rivian R1T

MotorTrend’s Sean Holman and Christian Hazel ride along the Eastern Sierras in the Rivian R1T to meet Brent Underwood, the newly-minted owner of one of California’s most infamous historic mining towns, Cerro Gordo.

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