Hello and welcome to car talk from National Public Radio with us click and clack the Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the reality ain't all it's cracked up to be department here at Car Talk Plaza. Well, I mean, we saw all these other networks that have huge hits with the so-called what they say, reality shows. Yeah. So we decided NPR needs and a reality show, too. I mean, you may be familiar with the one that PBS came up with. It's called 1900 house. The idea is that an English family moves into an

authentic 1900 Victorian house built in 1900. Right, right. And it's got nothing. No dishwashers,

no microwave, no email, no... Not like the houses they have now, right? Yeah. The cameras roll,

and they capture these poor schleps trying to cope with reality as it was in

1900. Yeah, yeah.

Well, we have a concept here for a similar show, and it's called not 1900 House, but

1952 car.

We wanted to see.

Well, what would happen if a typical American family tried to live life the way they did in 1952 in an authentic 1952 car?

Just what happens?

The family's yours.

Which we happen to have.

We happen to have a 1952 MGTD, right?

Mm-hmm.

So here's a brief synopsis of the first season. Episode one, while the family

watches, chief mechanic Vinnie Gumbats, prepares the MG by going through it and stripping

it of any modern conveniences and finds... There are none.

Episode two. To prepare for authentic 1952 life,

the entire family watches reruns of father knows best.

Yeah.

Tommy realizes that fathers went to work in the 50s,

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