So I'm driving along a couple of months ago, bringing home my new E63 AMG Wagon from Minneapolis, where I bought it, and I get up behind this Volkswagen Jetta station wagon somewhere in the middle of Indiana. Normally, this wouldn't be a very unusual occurrence, but this thing had a license plate from Maine, and we were very far from Maine, so I took a picture of it and made a note to Carfax it later.

I have this power, and you can, too. Carfax, which is one of the companies that provides vehicle history reports for cars, now lets you look up vehicles by license plate number and not just VIN. So I take pictures of unusual cars I see on the road, and then I run Carfax reports on them when I'm stopped somewhere later, such as having lunch.

And in this case, I'm glad I did, because this car's report was absolutely amazing. First off, it's a one-owner 2004 Volkswagen Jetta wagon, meaning this guy's been driving this thing for 13 years. Right away, I knew there would be some good story with it, since it's an old, one-owner car more than 1,000 miles from home, and -- let's be honest -- cars and people from Maine always have unusual stories to tell.