Can you solve this week's puzzler?

View in browser » A Special Vehicle Time for the new puzzler. Here we go. This is a historic automotive puzzler.  A special vehicle was first produced in 1949. It was powered by a Jeep engine but then switched to using a Volkswagen engine. It had a base price of $50,000 when it came out and now is way above $100,000.  It is never raced, but can often be found in a closed course, so to speak. A famous sports celebrity was the creator and first sales representative for this vehicle. What is the vehicle and who was that famous sports celebrity? Good luck. Answer the Puzzler » Remember last week's puzzler? One Percent Potatoes Time for the new puzzler. This one is interesting. Here we go. It is a little known fact, for the purposes of this puzzler, that potatoes are 99% water and only 1% potato. Or 1% dry matter, the stuff that makes a potato a potato.  So, imagine you were to take 100 pounds of potatoes and you set them out on your back porch to dry out. You leave them out in the sun. When you do this, they will start to dry out.  As they dry out, of course, the water begins to evaporate. And after a while, enough water has evaporated so that the potatoes are now 98% water. If you were to weigh those potatoes at that moment, when they are 98% water, how much lighter would they be? Find out here » Cartalk.com Community This Week's Show Podcast Add to address book Unsubscribe from list Email preferences Shameless Commerce Care of WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Contents © 2024, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

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Can you solve this week's puzzler?

View in browser » One Percent Potatoes Time for the new puzzler. This one is interesting. Here we go. It is a little known fact, for the purposes of this puzzler, that potatoes are 99% water and only 1% potato. Or 1% dry matter, the stuff that makes a potato a potato.  So, imagine you were to take 100 pounds of potatoes and you set them out on your back porch to dry out. You leave them out in the sun. When you do this, they will start to dry out.  As they dry out, of course the water begins to evaporate. And after a while enough water has evaporated so that the potatoes are now 98% water. If you were to weigh those potatoes at that moment, when they are 98% water, how much lighter would they be? Good luck. Answer the Puzzler » Remember last week's puzzler? Pages This is an old one. And you have to be old to even try to get this one.  Back in the day, there was a TV series called Perry Mason. And there was a detective on that show named Paul Drake.  So, if you remember that, you can do this puzzler.  Many years ago, Paul Drake had to hire a new assistant and he had three candidates in his office. He decided to interview them and give them a little quiz.  So he said, "Look, guys, there's a crime that needs to be solved. And there's a clue in one of the public libraries in Bakersfield. The clue is stuck inside a book between pages 165 and 166. This is a book about cars that's written by two famous brothers." Two of the guys jump up and bolt out the door. The third guy doesn't move. He just sits there. Drake says, "You've got the job." Why did the third guy get the job? What did he know that the other two applicants did not know? Find out here » Cartalk.com Community This Week's Show Podcast Add to address book Unsubscribe from list Email preferences Shameless Commerce Care of WBUR, 890 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 Contents © 2024, Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe.

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