You decide to waste another perfectly good hour getting bogus car advice from the Car Talk guys when what should happen but some remark from the caller launches either Tom or Ray off topic and onto a story about The Sleek Black Beauty, their most recent wife, or their days at MIT. 
If you try to drive while listening this you will surely laugh yourself right off the road!
I was hoping for excerpts from their funniest episodes, that’s not what this is. Mostly them telling stories and laughing a lot. Kind of boring
These guys could make describing a turnip funny. They get to laughing so hard that you just have to laugh…sometime you don’t even know what they are talking about but you are laughing with them anyway. The car problems don’t even have to be funny. We enjoy listening to the stories over and over and play the tapes for anyone who visits and seems to need cheering up! They deserve to retire as long as you continue to air the reruns!
Published in 2006 by HighBridge
Duration: 1 hour
Usually Ray and Tom Magliozzi’s “Car Talk” show on NPR is a mixture of humor, stories and lots of advice on car repair and maintenance. This collection, though, is all funny stories (only the barest amount of car advice is given). There are sixteen stories in all, with topics ranging from the dangers of carrying plywood on the roof of your car to what to do if a customer brings in a really smelly car to how one of the brother’s did during his stint in the army as a young man (hint: not well). Some are really funny, some are merely amusing but if you are a fan of the show you will enjoy this collection.
This is the 3rd Car Talk CD I’ve bought for my husband. He loves Click and Clack. The first two were great! Laughed our heads off. (“Never Listen To Your Father” and “Calls About Animals and Cars”). This CD was not so good. No calls, just a lot of long talking.
Don’t recommend this one.
Car Talk: The Greatest Stories Ever Told: Once Upon a Car Fire… (Car Talk) I’ve fogotten how to listen to my radio(s) because they make me mad when I can’t find a clear station or a certain station. So I don’t hear Car Talk often enough in real time. I have been buying books to read to myself (but bothering others) by bursting into sharp and loud laughter, or with CD’s in the car where I can laugh and laugh all alone. I connect with your family because ours is much the same except we don’t laugh much anymore. I FORGOT HOW TO DO IT! Thanks for reminding me, guys!
These are the best stories told by the best in the car business.
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I guess you either love these guys or you hate them. My wife finds them incredibly annoying when she hears them on the radio.
Myself, I love them. Their accents are not off-putting to me, and I love how they laugh together.
What I’ve learned over time, though, is that the ‘straight’ answers they provide are actually pretty authoritative. They actually know what they’re talking about, based not only on their extensive formal education but also based on their hands-on work with many, many cars.
If I personally found anything annoying, it’s only their constant self-referencing which gets old. However, it’s a part of their “shtick” which we would not want to do without…
if you like the tappet brothers and their show, you’ve got to get this. i wish they offered this in electronic format (mp3, wma, aac, whatever) to make this easier to use on modern day devices. the stories are a lot of fun and it’s great the way they segway into these stories. i got them for a long road trip and the miles/times just vanished. we ended up listening to the CD three times during the road trip!
look forward to more from them.
I listen to these guys on the radio every weekend and always end up laughing myself silly. This was the perfect gift for my nephew who has the best sense of humor.