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• Peterson was widowed more than 30 years ago, but she was always out in the garage in with her husband when he was tinkering with their automobiles. She doesn't do her own repairs, but she checks her own oil and tops off the anti-freeze and other fluids in her 2002 Chevy Monte Carlo when needed.
• Her increasing knowledge allows her to ask the right questions with mechanics, she added.
• "A lot of times a woman will get ripped off to it," she said.
• Evans and Nordstrom over the years have fielded calls from on-the-job automobile plant assembly line workers and U.S. motor pool soldiers in Iraq. They've also dealt with their share of puzzling predicaments.
• A woman once couldn't figure out why her garage door went up or down every time she started her car. The hosts determined it was interference from bad spark

plug wires was causing the mayhem.
• And some years back, a frustrated caller griped about a seemingly haunted pickup truck with doors that locked and unlocked whenever it started moving.
• The hosts were stumped, and the caller later sold the truck, but he later called back in to reveal the solved mystery: The new owner found a spare remote key ring behind the spare tire, which was triggering the remote whenever the truck hit a bump.
• Evans said he and Nordstrom are huge fans of "Car Talk," and they learned from hosts "Click and Clack" that it's always to be important to listen to the callers, help them out and make them feel good.
• "They're taking time out of their day to call us," Evans said. "They're putting trust in us with their car, and it's not always at the best time for them. They're calling because they have a problem that could likely cost them a lot of money."
• He'd love to one day meet the Magliozzis.
• "They're my heroes as far as the car talk world goes," he said.
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