# The Show **URL:** https://community.cartalk.com/c/the-show/7.md?page=41 [Latest](https://community.cartalk.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.cartalk.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.cartalk.com/tags.md) **Page:** 42 --- ## [Music on today's show (Feb. 26)](https://community.cartalk.com/t/music-on-todays-show-feb-26/61889)
**Author:** [@radiolistener39](https://community.cartalk.com/u/radiolistener39)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/music-on-todays-show-feb-26/61889 "2011-02-26T16:19:55Z")
Loved the John McCutcheon song "The Red Corvette" you played, today. But I was disappointed that you didn't finish it. It has a very funny ending, which goes right along with your humor. The audience would love it. --- ## [3 Numbers Puzzler](https://community.cartalk.com/t/3-numbers-puzzler/61585)
**Author:** [@Kevingets](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Kevingets)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/3-numbers-puzzler/61585 "2011-02-25T00:49:48Z")
I am not sure I agree with the puzzler answer because the initial problem statement did not seem to allow the use of three known numbers. The problem statement said the numbers had to be any numbers.... and how would you… --- ## [Tom and Ray's best stories](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tom-and-rays-best-stories/61805)
**Author:** [@Boxful\_of\_neutrals](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Boxful_of_neutrals)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tom-and-rays-best-stories/61805 "2011-02-24T23:52:04Z")
I love the way that Tom and Ray tell a story. Whatever the content, they usually laugh so much that you have to join in. Listening to an old podcast last night, I had tears streaming down my face. They were telling … --- ## [Poor Gas Mileage during cold weather](https://community.cartalk.com/t/poor-gas-mileage-during-cold-weather/61658)
**Author:** [@MicolB](https://community.cartalk.com/u/MicolB)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 24, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/poor-gas-mileage-during-cold-weather/61658 "2011-02-24T18:55:24Z")
Several weeks ago a caller said his gas mileage dropped dramatically during cold weather. I noticed that the cars I drive get much better gas mileage during warm/hot weather. Highway driving: 33-34 summer, 29 winter. Cit… --- ## [Slow driver solution](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slow-driver-solution/61608)
**Author:** [@paintedbus](https://community.cartalk.com/u/paintedbus)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2011, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slow-driver-solution/61608 "2011-02-21T22:55:13Z")
In the vintage VW community, we are well versed in slow moving solutions. I suggest that the caller grab up one of these effective (and giant) magnets: http://ima...465729.jpg If you are wary of going to rando… --- ## [A car for Mara & her family](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-car-for-mara-her-family/60987)
**Author:** [@Badger\_Dohnell](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Badger_Dohnell)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-car-for-mara-her-family/60987 "2011-02-21T21:07:18Z")
Feb 5 you suggested an Odyssey for Mara from Franconia, NH. Not a bad choice IMHO. She and her husband didn,t want an SUV or a minivan, though. 3 other choices that might work for them: Kia Rondo (seats 7 … --- ## [Slow Car](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slow-car/61665)
**Author:** [@dvditman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dvditman)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/slow-car/61665 "2011-02-21T19:26:46Z")
A slow driver on the Feb. 19th, 2011 show asked for advice for dealing with tailgaters. One suggestion was getting some red and blue lights. Here in MD. that would net a big ticket for impersonating a police officer. Bet… --- ## [Old callers](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-callers/60609)
**Author:** [@dlmacd42](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dlmacd42)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2011, 5:35am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/old-callers/60609 "2011-02-21T05:35:26Z")
Is it my imagination or are many of the calls to the show repeats from years ago. I recognized the teacher with the 8th grade class as from some years ago and all the vehicles were from the 80's and 90's. Usually we ar… --- ## [Looking for NASA episodes](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looking-for-nasa-episodes/54824)
**Author:** [@somedaypilot](https://community.cartalk.com/u/somedaypilot)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/looking-for-nasa-episodes/54824 "2011-02-21T02:08:27Z")
So I've been listening for a while, and noticed on the Wikipedia page that they have had calls from an astronaut in space, and from the Jet Propulsion Lab regarding the Mars Rovers. Anyone know which episodes these are? … --- ## [IMPORTANT about the slow Denver Driver 2/19 show](https://community.cartalk.com/t/important-about-the-slow-denver-driver-2-19-show/61572)
**Author:** [@nocorod](https://community.cartalk.com/u/nocorod)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/important-about-the-slow-denver-driver-2-19-show/61572 "2011-02-20T22:15:51Z")
I am appalled that in jest it was intimated that the slow Denver driver impersonate a law officer. It is a felony to do so in this state \[Colorado\]. It was made a felony when a person who was imitating an officer abduct… --- ## [Snow plow subaru deja vu](https://community.cartalk.com/t/snow-plow-subaru-deja-vu/61632)
**Author:** [@hamcraft](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hamcraft)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2011, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/snow-plow-subaru-deja-vu/61632 "2011-02-20T21:41:59Z")
Do you remember the custom snow plow conversation in the latest installment of Car Talk? It seems that in the April 2nd, 2005 episode of Car Talk, toward the end of the show, there was also a caller who asked about … --- ## [Burning smell from car climbing the mountain](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burning-smell-from-car-climbing-the-mountain/61540)
**Author:** [@jhislop170](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jhislop170)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/burning-smell-from-car-climbing-the-mountain/61540 "2011-02-20T20:17:16Z")
The car that was on the show 2/19, was accumulating snow on its wheel wells and burning up its tires. This happened to my son's Subura in Colorado. Because they use other road treatments other than NaCl (such as CaCl2,… --- ## [Denise's gas gauge](https://community.cartalk.com/t/denises-gas-gauge/61576)
**Author:** [@danhicksbyron](https://community.cartalk.com/u/danhicksbyron)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 20, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/denises-gas-gauge/61576 "2011-02-20T16:59:41Z")
Rather than spending several hundred getting her gas gauge fixed, Denise should spend about $160 on a ScanGauge II. This is a device that plugs into the computer port of your car (generally just under the steering wheel… --- ## [Subaru snowplow on the 2/19 show](https://community.cartalk.com/t/subaru-snowplow-on-the-2-19-show/61557)
**Author:** [@geezenslaw](https://community.cartalk.com/u/geezenslaw)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/subaru-snowplow-on-the-2-19-show/61557 "2011-02-19T19:08:56Z")
My gut feeling the snowplow lady wants to do two things: 1. Plow snow 2. Is on a mission to do something mechanically interesting and challenging. Suggestion: go on eBay and acquire an old (they're all old) Grav… --- ## [Tom & Ray vs. 'Watson' contest](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tom-ray-vs-watson-contest/61480)
**Author:** [@Heywhereiseverybody](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Heywhereiseverybody)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 17, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/tom-ray-vs-watson-contest/61480 "2011-02-17T19:16:28Z")
I think your vast audience would like to see -- hear -- a contest between you and Watson, the new Jeopardy champion. Listeners call in with their car symptoms, you and Watson diagnose and suggest the needed repair. … --- ## [Three Slips of Paper Puzzler - Not Monty Hall](https://community.cartalk.com/t/three-slips-of-paper-puzzler-not-monty-hall/61292)
**Author:** [@PoodleShooter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PoodleShooter)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2011, 4:38am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/three-slips-of-paper-puzzler-not-monty-hall/61292 "2011-02-16T04:38:08Z")
Here's my thought: Pick one number. Set it aside. Pick a second number. If bigger than the first, keep it. If smaller, pick the third. By discarding the first, you change the odds to 1/2. If the second is … --- ## [A New Low in Puzzler Bogosity](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-low-in-puzzler-bogosity/61254)
**Author:** [@yotaguy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/yotaguy)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 16, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-low-in-puzzler-bogosity/61254 "2011-02-16T03:55:19Z")
This answer to this week's puzzler about the distance between the license plate bolt holes being unchanged since Karl Benz was in diapers was so wrong that it's almost painful. While the eighteen wheeler fuel tank issue … --- ## [The Fiat-Chrysler Partnership](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-fiat-chrysler-partnership/59942)
**Author:** [@Tom\_and\_Ray](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tom_and_Ray)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [February 15, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-fiat-chrysler-partnership/59942 "2011-02-15T01:44:41Z")
How's that little Fiat-Chrysler partnership working out? We have some concerns. Assembly lines are only running a few hours a day. The Italian workers wander in late... Chrysler workers knock off early. … --- ## [Where is this weeks podcast?](https://community.cartalk.com/t/where-is-this-weeks-podcast/61318)
**Author:** [@TBSteve](https://community.cartalk.com/u/TBSteve)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/where-is-this-weeks-podcast/61318 "2011-02-14T16:19:48Z")
I always download the mp3 podcast of the show, but the link - http://www...Id=9911203 - still has last weeks show. Where can I get this weeks show? --- ## [A New Low in Puzzler Bogosity......Part Deux](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-low-in-puzzler-bogosity-part-deux/61255)
**Author:** [@yotaguy](https://community.cartalk.com/u/yotaguy)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2011, 4:18am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/a-new-low-in-puzzler-bogosity-part-deux/61255 "2011-02-13T04:18:16Z")
This answer to this week's puzzler about the distance between the license plate bolt holes being unchanged since Karl Benz was in diapers was so wrong that it's almost painful. While the eighteen wheeler fuel tank issue … --- ## [The song in today's show](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-in-todays-show/61247)
**Author:** [@iplawnet](https://community.cartalk.com/u/iplawnet)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2011, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/the-song-in-todays-show/61247 "2011-02-12T21:05:34Z")
"u turns are illegal in this state I found" This seems like a great song. Who is the artist and what is the title? --- ## [Bogus Missionary Puzzler?](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bogus-missionary-puzzler/60906)
**Author:** [@PoodleShooter](https://community.cartalk.com/u/PoodleShooter)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 12, 2011, 6:43am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bogus-missionary-puzzler/60906 "2011-02-12T06:43:35Z")
First, I think this puzzler is a rerun. Second: "'All we could find, in addition to our suitcases, was the regular jack, the kind that can jack up one corner of the vehicle at a time; about 30 more feet of that rope… --- ## [Bats are good](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bats-are-good/60600)
**Author:** [@milliganma](https://community.cartalk.com/u/milliganma)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bats-are-good/60600 "2011-02-11T20:58:09Z")
I just listened to the guy who wanted to exterminate the bats in his garage, and I was stunned at his foolish and cruel idea to waste fossil fuel in a futile attempt to gas them. Bats are key to our environment and he s… --- ## [Brian Campbell Jersey](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brian-campbell-jersey/61186)
**Author:** [@nflfansme](https://community.cartalk.com/u/nflfansme)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/brian-campbell-jersey/61186 "2011-02-11T12:17:13Z")
Jersey, Nov. 11 report: the case in the absence of Wayne Rooney,Brian Campbell Jersey, Dimitar Berbatov Manchester United in the derby naturally become the largest attack relying on,Marian Hossa Jersey, but the firs… --- ## [Are old Volvos really safe?](https://community.cartalk.com/t/are-old-volvos-really-safe/61040)
**Author:** [@oscarguitar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oscarguitar)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2011, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/are-old-volvos-really-safe/61040 "2011-02-09T14:53:14Z")
In a couple of recent shows callers have been recommended to buy a secondhand Volvo as they are believed to be safe cars. This video clip shows an older Volvo being crashed into a tiny modern Renault. http://www...BDye… --- ## [Bogus explanation in "His tombstone can read, "He got 42 miles...""](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bogus-explanation-in-his-tombstone-can-read-he-got-42-miles/60993)
**Author:** [@karlchwe](https://community.cartalk.com/u/karlchwe)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [February 8, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bogus-explanation-in-his-tombstone-can-read-he-got-42-miles/60993 "2011-02-08T23:24:34Z")
Yet again, the Brothers claim that engine braking (putting the car in a low gear slows the car down when coasting) is that the engine's mass absorbs the momentum like a flywheel. That isn't the case, because if it were, … --- ## [How did driving gloves evolve to what they were before Nomex?](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-did-driving-gloves-evolve-to-what-they-were-before-nomex/60929)
**Author:** [@sumflow](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sumflow)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [February 6, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/how-did-driving-gloves-evolve-to-what-they-were-before-nomex/60929 "2011-02-06T04:49:32Z")
Sports car and racing drivers wore gloves of soft leather, with external seams, open knuckles with keyhole backs. Gloves show ventilation holes, with short cuffs, and stud fasteners. Does anyone know the history of how… --- ## [Bats](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bats/60908)
**Author:** [@minor123](https://community.cartalk.com/u/minor123)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 5, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/bats/60908 "2011-02-05T06:21:16Z")
I'm surprised that you guys didn't know the answer to the bat question last week. You must have been accused of being batty and/or having bats in your belfry at some point in time. Anyway, bats hate moth balls. So jus… --- ## [Gas tank puzzler](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-tank-puzzler/60544)
**Author:** [@Mooose](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Mooose)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [February 4, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-tank-puzzler/60544 "2011-02-04T17:34:57Z")
Why don't they correct last week's puzzler answer? The center of gravity does not mean there is an equal qty of gas above and below it if the shapes above and below it are not mirror images. --- ## [Defrost](https://community.cartalk.com/t/defrost/60730)
**Author:** [@arnielew](https://community.cartalk.com/u/arnielew)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 31, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/defrost/60730 "2011-01-31T21:33:27Z")
My wife and I have an ongoing disagreement regarding the use of the car's windshield defroster. We live in Colorado and time and again it gets very cold. Today for example, it was so cold that even though it was rainin… [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/c/the-show/7.md?page=40) [Next page](https://community.cartalk.com/c/the-show/7.md?page=42)