1996 Puzzlers

	Broken Distributor Cap It's the case of the combustible distributor cap. Has spontaneous combustion come to Car Talk, or is there another, more logical answer?
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	The Hill and the Carburetor
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	Tom hoofs it home
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	Gone Fishing
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	Railroad Tracks
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	Diving Suits
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	Larry's VW
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	Crusty's Pulley
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	Citizenship
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	Electrons
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	Familiar Phrase It's a question about a phrase you've heard a million times on Car Talk... an historical, etomylogical, arboreal puzzler!
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	Toyota Tercel OK, Holmes...which of these items was causing the Toyota Tercel to not start sometimes? The fuzzy dice? The floor mats? Or the stick-on digital clock on the dashboard?
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	Company Emblem The largest company emblem to be attached regularly to a production passenger vehicle is...no, it's not something gaudy like Buick...it's....
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	Man-made Object OK, everybody knows that the Concorde"SST" was the first passenger airplane to break the sound barrier. That's easy. Now see if you can answer a much tougher puzzle about things that break the sound barrier.
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	Toilet Water What's wrong with Ronnie's brother's plumbing? Like you care!! But wait! Check out the details...it gets more interesting.
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	Prison Marbles The warden says to the death row prisoner, "You have one chance to spare your life. One of these boxes has 50 black marbles, the other one has 50 white marbles..." "Oh, no," says the prisoner. "Not one of those dang marble puzzlers!!"
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	Spark Plugs So, what do you get when you cross a vacuum cleaner with a tune up?
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	Swiss Army Knife Logo While Ray was removing a poison dart from his finger (I hate when that happens), he noticed an automotive logo. What was it?
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	Encore 6 OK, so this cowboy rides into town on Friday...and ends up in this Rod Serling-like totally Twilight Zone-esque Puzzler. Wow! Check out the answer.
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	Encore 5 Why does Raymond seem so nonchalant after he spills flammable gasoline on a red hot engine? Does he WANT to lose those eyebrows? Or does he know something we don't?
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	Encore 4 So this woman goes into "Pokey Lube" to ask for directions, and she comes out with four new shocks. Problem is, the car rides terribly. Tom and Ray take a look and say that Pokey Lube did nothing wrong! Is this is a misprint??
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	Encore 3 So...what's a guy to do when his catalytic converter is glowing red hot? Break out the marshmallows? Get a bunch of kids to sit around it and tell ghost stories?
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	Encore 2 Did you guess which part on every car is virtually interchangeable? If you guessed, "lug nuts" or "fuzzy dice" you'll want to check out the correct answer.
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	Encore 1 Let's say two brothers have a race. One drives a '74 Rustbucket, and the other drives an Indy race car. And the '74 Rustbucket wins. Did you figure out why?
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	Vehicle A $50,000 vehicle that your neighbor definitely doesn't have in his driveway. What is it? And who was its first spokesWOMAN?
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	Potato C'mon all you junior mathematicians....how much do a hundred pounds of potatoes weigh after they've been sitting out in the sun for a while??
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	Paul Drake Private detective Paul Drake was tired of being constantly dispatched to Bakersfield by Perry Mason, so he brought in three guys (I know, but this takes place in the fifties) to interview for a job as his Bakersfield liaison. Who gets the job and how?
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	Louie's Borrowed Truck Raymond, "trusting soul" that he is, handed his son Louis the keys to his Pickup and told him to drive no farther than a friend's house nearby. Raymond felt that jotting down the truck's mileage was unnecessary: his admonition would be sufficient. (Raymond can be a real chump sometimes). How did Raymond eventually prove that Louis had disobeyed him?
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	Chemistry Test Instead of preparing for their final exam the following day, two undergrad chemistry students spend the evening out of town studying the effects of carbonated alcoholic beverages on the human nervous system. How did the professor expose their phoney excuse on his makeup exam?
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	TAN 270 If we told you a certain car had a license plate reading, BUG you'd probably know it was a VW Beetle. If you saw one near Car Talk Plaza that read, HEAP, it's undoubtedly a '63 Dodge Dart. Here's another, trickier one...
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