#2541: It's Raining Cars

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The freeways in Los Angeles are no place for the faint of heart. After surviving a multi-car pileup, Matt feels incredibly lucky to be safely ensconced in a tow truck heading home along with his wounded Volvo, until he notices that the Volvo has apparently taken a different route home. Will Matt and his 850 be reunited? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.
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0:00.0	Know that fizzy feeling you get when you read something really good, watch the movie everyone's been talking about, or catch the show that the internet can't get over.
0:08.1	At the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, we chase that feeling four times a week.
0:12.4	We'll serve you recommendations and commentary on the buzziest movies, TV, music, and more.
0:18.1	From lowbrow to highbrow to the stuff in between.
0:23.9	Catch the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast from NPR. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us,
0:43.8	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,
0:45.1	and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Criminal Stupidity here at Carat Talk Plaza.
0:50.7	Now, this should cheer everyone up.
0:52.6	This is a true story evidently yeah and it was
0:56.3	in automotive news it was reported by automotive news that's right it's an automotive story you're
1:00.0	ready for this yeah a guy walks into patrick auto sales is a used car dealership uh in
1:06.5	near detroit the guy whose name is Bobby James Webb Stokes III.
1:11.9	You've got to worry right away.
1:14.0	Allegedly pulls out an Uzi-style firearm and demands a car.
1:20.5	The salesman fearing for his life hands over the keys to an 87 Chrysler LeBaron.
1:27.7	You're a librarian or your life.
1:30.2	There's an easy choice.
1:31.4	No-brainer.
1:32.7	Anyway, this guy, Webb Stokes, takes off in the car, and later on, he calls the dealership
1:37.3	to complain that the LeBaron is overheating.
1:41.9	The salesman says, oh, really?
1:43.7	Why don't you bring it in?
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