#2580: How's Your Breather, Laddie?

The Best of Car Talk

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Comedy, Automotive, Leisure

4.8 • 16.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Alison’s VW won’t start and to make matters worse, Click and Clack are mesmerized by her lovely Scottish accent. Will Alison have to dope slap the guys(“a skelpit lug!)to get some decent advice? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

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0:23.6	Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us
0:43.2	Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,
0:44.8	and we're broadcasting this week from the State of the Dart Center here at Car Talk Plaza.
0:49.8	Oh, man.
0:51.0	Tell us about your dart, Tom.
0:53.6	I mean, how long have I had the dart? Way too long. I mean... It's time had come. It's time came. It came. Thank God. Man, you talk about sad. I mean, this was the saddest, one of the saddest moments of my life. Really? Yeah. I mean. And your wife was so jubilant. I mean, she never thought she'd see the day when the dart was euthanized. I mean, I didn't even see it until days after this happened. My son, I don't want to, I don't want to get the guy in trouble, you know? Any more than he's already in.
1:31.3	I mean, he has in a year, he's had his license, what, a year?
1:31.9	Yeah.
1:33.4	He's totaled two cars.
1:34.1	Yeah.
1:35.1	And.
1:37.4	And instrumental in the destruction of many others.
1:40.1	Instrumental in the destruction of the dark.
1:43.2	Not that he was, I mean, you can't blame him. Let me set the stage.
1:46.3	It was a beautiful pre-spring day.
1:53.1	One of those days you get in the winter here in New England where the sun is out and it's about 64 degrees, an unexpected day.
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