The case of the missing getaway car

RAY: What the officer saw was that the disc brake rotors were rusted. If a car had been sitting for days, that is what would happen. But if it had been used yesterday in a bank robbery and the brakes had been slammed on, especially several times to avoid a collision with a tanker truck, or a pedestrian, then the rust would have been scraped off and Knuckles would have been in deep doo-doo.

But he was innocent. The red Mustang was a red herring.

Who's our winner, Tommy?

TOM: The winner is Sarah Tankersley from Florence, Kentucky. And for having her answer selected at random from among all the correct answers that we got Sarah will receive from us a twenty six dollar gift certificate to the Shameless Commerce Division of Car Talk.com, where she can order various things, like our brand new CD called Maternal Combustion, calls about mothers and cars. This is a brand new collection that features our mother here with us in this studio on our show and in other cameo appearances calling in to nag us about smoking cigars and other stuff.

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