Tom and Ray Magliozzi are America’s foremost auto mechanics. Most people phone in to their radio show with questions about cars: buying them, driving them, cursing them, keeping them running. But advice is just the tip of the Car Talk carburetor. In between are songs, jokes, puzzlers, rants—and, most famously, digressions. Give the guys an inch of airspace and they’ll riff on almost anything. That’s what this collection is about: telling stories, going off on tangents, taking verbal detours, and convincing a delighted audience to come along. Whatever happened to Tommy’s Dart? Why is Doug the subway fugitive? Listen, learn—and laugh.

TRACK LISTING

1. Plywood Aerodynamics
2. The Customer Is Always Stinko
3. Priiiiiiiiii-vate Maaaaag-leee-o-zee!
4. Catch This, You Little Twerp!
5. A Nice Juicy Pizza
6. Power to the People!
7. Once Upon a Bird Clock
8. My Own Son!
9. I Thought I Wasa Parka da Car Ova Here-a
10. How Many Engineers Does It Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?
11. I Trust You, Joanne
12. Don't Drive Like My Brother (x2)
13. “It Could Be Nothing, or It Could Be a Brrrain Tumorrr”
14. How Low Can You Go?
15. The Subway Fugitive
16. The Great Montreal Hotel Fire

Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, host NPR’s Car Talk, a weekly syndicated call-in program. Their wacky, uninhibited, thoroughly unrehearsed show has endeared them to millions of listeners. Winners of the Peabody Award in broadcasting, the brothers have been handing out advice on everything from car repair to marriage repair since 1977. Their twice-weekly newspaper column, “Click and Clack Talk Cars,” appears in more than 200 newspapers around the country.