This Week on Car Talk

#1205: Carla, Come Home

Original Air Date: 02.04.2012

This week on Car Talk, after 18 years in Homer, Alaska, Carla is ready to return to civilization. Her truck? Not so much. It can only climb hills in Reverse.

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