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The Best of Car Talk

#23106: The Mother-in-Law's Revenge

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Leisure, Automotive

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Gary's Mother-in-law had a gorgeous 1967 Ford T-bird... until Gary tried to fix it for her. Gary knows he's not good enough for her daughter, but is he no longer fit to walk this earth, too? Click and Clack try to save Gary's bacon on this episode of the Best of Car Talk. And if you want to listen to more Car Talk, sign up for Car Talk+ Car Talk+ is the easiest way for fans to access more than 800 Car Talk episodes, wherever you listen to podcasts. Find out more at plus.npr.org/cartalk or find the Car Talk channel in Apple Podcasts.

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With Barbinheimer and both Taylor Swift and Beyoncée on tour, it was a lot of cultural news to keep up on this year.

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Hollywood actors have gone on strike.

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The Prince's memoir Spare is out.

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Hey it's Roy Malyozzi.

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Please turn your holiday spirit into something a little more worthwhile.

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click and clack the Tappet brothers and we're broadcasting this week from the

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Now, I'm sure you heard that once again,

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Kartak Plaza was passed over

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