#2364: Press On!

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Automotive, Leisure, Comedy

4.7 • 16.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Hippies remember their Volkswagen vans fondly as a low-cost, tiny home on wheels. What they've forgotten is what a mechanical nightmare they were. On this episode we start the show with Sandra's 'flamethrower edition' of the Vanagon and end with Frank's 'brake failure' Eurovan. What a long strange trip it's gonna be on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Card Talk on National Public Radio with us. Click and collect the
0:20.1	TAPIT brothers and we're broadcasting this week. You ready for this? From Puzzler Tower
0:24.8	here at Card Talk Plaza. After a long and certainly well-deserved summer vacation the
0:29.6	Puzzler today returns for a new season of challenging, interesting, folkloric and
0:37.3	historic questions. Is that great? No big baby! Come on you've had six months to come
0:47.4	up on a decent Puzzler. Oh, Christ. It's pressing to see a grown man. You've been on vacation
0:58.0	all these weeks. I have not. I've been pouring over the puzzle books and mail and
1:04.1	everything I could possibly do. So you have something really... No I'm gonna ramp up.
1:12.1	Anyway if you have a question for us about your car or you have something
1:16.2	nasty to say about Melissa. Oh, are you kidding? Who could say anything nasty about that
1:21.7	little twit? Feel free to call us at 1-800-3329287. Hello you're on Card Talk.
1:28.0	Hello this is Sandra Rice from Johnson City Tennessee. Hi Sandra. Hi. My problem is a
1:34.5	1984 Volkswagen Vanagan. No, no. I would say anything. No. Well anyway, car has been in
1:43.9	the shop more than it's been in our driveway. The most recent trip to the garage we had
1:49.3	it the engine tweaked and attuned up and we took a trip to Pennsylvania and on the way back
1:54.9	people were pointing and waving at us and we slowly pulled over and realized that the
1:59.7	engine was glowing sort of a red color. Oh, geez. And then as darkness fell I was sitting
2:07.1	in the passenger's side moving the mirror and I could notice that there were flames shooting
2:11.4	out the back. Yeah. Really? All the time does it or?
2:17.9	So. Yes, really. Alright, then when were you alerted to the fact that something was not right?
2:23.5	Oh, what made you think that that was anything wrong? I mean, doesn't this do this all
2:29.8	the time? Well, that was the first we knew about it. Yeah. But wait a minute. When the engine
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