#2521: How to Make Your Car a Little Less Lousy

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Rich from Wisconsin knows that his Chevy Citation isn't the greatest, but he thinks it'll be more fun if he chops off the top and makes it into a convertible with his new grinding tool. Should he or shouldn't he, and why shouldn't he? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:35.8	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,
0:37.3	and we're broadcasting this week from the center for New Year's resolutions
0:41.1	here at Car Talk Blas.
0:42.2	It's about time.
0:43.6	Well, I make a lot of resolutions every year, and I never keep them, but I'm keeping
0:47.9	this one.
0:48.8	I'm with you on this.
0:49.6	And this involves Starbucks coffee.
0:52.2	Yeah.
0:52.7	For as bad enough, they've invaded the planet.
0:56.2	But that's another issue altogether.
0:58.0	That's another issue.
0:58.9	And we'll talk about that some other time.
1:00.9	Some other time.
1:01.6	But I just wanted to say, as good as their coffee is, they have unnecessarily complicated
1:05.8	my life and probably everyone else's life, too.
1:09.3	I'm not even going to deal with the fact that
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