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click and clack to Tappert Brothers and we're broadcasting this week

from the fall foliage observation deck here in Car Talk Plaza. Now most of the year my brother's 63

Dodge Dart convertible, venerable, 63 Dodge Dart,

63 Dodge, Dodge, venerable.

Is this out in his driver with the top down, filling up with a variety of organic materials,

sticks, moss, bird droppings, flora?

I'm trying to reproduce the origins of the universe.

I mean, this is how it happens somewhere, right?

The primordial ooze.

The back seat of my car.

It certainly is.

Well, especially this time of here, because as the leaves change color from like gold to rust, brown, it becomes increasingly.

Talking about the color of my car?

Difficult to tell the dart apart from the leaves.

True.

What you get is this beautiful impressionistic scene.

You know, the body is already rust, so the leaves sort of blend in with that and the

seats are already yellow and brown from all those farm animals, so blend it in too it really is I think it's kind of nice myself it's an artist nightmare actually

I like it okay all right can I read some mail here? All right.

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