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Music the Fantastic Four on Bullseye for Maximumfund.org and NPR. Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us, Click and Clack to Tappert

Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Technical Education

here at Caratalk Plaza. Now, you may have missed this, but California held an automotive

career education day recently.

I guess the good people in California determined that there's a nationwide shortage of automotive repair technicians.

And there is.

So this automotive career education day was set up to encourage kids to go into the automotive repair field.

And they did a pretty good job.

But we have a couple of suggestions for more effective ways to lure kids into the profession next year.

Yeah, I mean, for one thing, I mean, they didn't combine their little automotive career education day with the boat show.

Oh, gross oversight.

That was a fatal error.

And secondly, show them how simple it is to be a mechanic.

For instance, here are a few simple, multiple-choice questions that illustrate how intuitive it is.

Question number one.

A customer comes in complaining of an engine noise when the car is cold.

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