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Click and Clack the Tapper Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Do It to Yourself division here at Carat Talk Plaza.

Well, you know, summer has finally arrived.

Spring never really showed up here in New England, did it.

You don't ever get spring. Boom. Just all of a sudden it's summer. But anyway, that means that many of you will be taking your annual stab at doing it yourself. That is repairing something on your car. Now, maybe you need to change the plugs or replace a belt, or if you drive a real beast like my brother, you'll be taking a hammer and chisel with that pile of crud that's built up on the floor of your trunk.

Floor, it's on the front seat.

In any case, those are all, you know, pretty minor repairs, but why not challenge yourself this year by attempting something more ambitious and really doing it to yourself.

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