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#1701: The Roadmonster That Ate Cambridge

Original Air Date: 01.07.2017
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This week on The Best of Car Talk, is Phil’s Buick Roadmaster making noise because of a steering problem or because he needs to make 20-point turns to navigate the narrow streets of Our Fair City?
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