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The Best of Car Talk

#2345: Like a Rhinestone Car Girl

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Savannah is a young artist with an old Pontiac that she plans to use as her canvas. She is going to cover every square inch of the car in rhinestones and has to make sure they don't fly off when she's on the highway. Can Click and Clack help this Rhinestone car girl? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Car Talk, our National Public Radio with us, Cliff and Collective

0:19.9

Tappin Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Mayday Center here at Car Talk

0:24.3

Plaza.

0:25.3

And now, is it Mayday?

0:26.3

Well, since it's around the beginning of May, we thought we'd let you in on a little

0:29.1

personal information about my brother.

0:31.5

We would let you in on a Tommy.

0:32.5

I don't know nothing about it.

0:34.6

I mean, most people think of Mayday as a labor celebration.

0:38.4

Yeah, you know, Mayday.

0:39.4

Mayday.

0:40.4

I thought the Labor Day was that.

0:41.4

Well, that's another one.

0:42.4

That's another one, right.

0:43.4

But since my brother doesn't do labor, we developed a different meaning for the holiday

0:48.3

and an alternative.

0:49.3

As my son says, if you were in vacation, how would you know?

0:53.9

You see, several May days ago, I bought my brother, one of those little ship to shore

0:58.4

radios.

0:59.4

Oh, yeah, that.

1:00.4

And he promptly installed it where?

1:02.4

The dart.

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