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The Best of Car Talk

#2376: What's Cookin' at the Roadkill Cafe?

The Best of Car Talk

NPR

Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.716.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

'Locally-sourced' and 'tarmac-to-table' are hallmarks of the Roadkill Cafe. Tommy reads from their revolting menu and we promise that if you've never actually considered a vegan diet, you will after 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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0:00.0

Hey, it's Ray. I just want to make sure you've heard about NPR's new CarTalk Plus.

0:05.0

For an insignificant little subscription fee, you'll get access to hundreds of previous

0:09.5

episodes whenever you want them and your subscription supports NPR. If you like things

0:15.3

the way they are, no worries, but if you're ready for an upgraded CarTalk experience

0:19.8

and who wouldn't. And you want to do your part to help NPR, you can go to the CarTalk

0:26.2

Plus channel at Apple or go to plus dot NPR dot org slash CarTalk. That's plus dot NPR dot

0:34.1

org slash CarTalk.

0:52.3

Hello and welcome to CarTalk on National Public Radio.

0:54.8

Let's click and collect the tablet brothers and we're broadcasting this week once again

0:59.2

from the gift shop here at CarTalk Plus. And now last week we told you about the CarTalk

1:04.0

child punishment tapes, the Melissa Peterson edition. And we're sold out. Those are gone.

1:09.8

They went like proverbial hotcakes. But this week we're highlighting another item.

1:14.7

You won't want to be without because I'll be waiting. Well, you know, you've seen those

1:19.0

scale model replicas of classic cars from the past, you know, that that 57 Chevy. That

1:23.9

was a classic. The 1940 viewer convertible. Yeah, the 1912 Stutz bear rug bear cat.

1:30.3

Well, this year we've commissioned an incredibly lifelike scale model of my brother Tommy,

1:38.1

63 Dodge Dart convertible. It looks just like the original. The left rear fender is folded

1:43.9

into the wheel well. Yeah, the tail lights don't work. That's accurate. The rust is practically

1:48.1

up to the windows. Right here. The hood won't open. The top won't close. Right. And there

1:52.8

are raccoons and permanent residents in the backseat. That's it. Now this is handcrafted

1:57.1

by the junior mint scale replica 1963 Dodge Dart get yours before it falls apart in the

2:04.4

box. I mean, what are people do they send us money? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 120 bucks.

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