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ur latest winner of Car Talk's Golden Wrench Award runs a shop that's somewhat unusual. (No, it's not a clothing-optional garage.)

Pete DeBevers has 20 assistants. Sounds like a nightmare, right? Not to Pete, who runs the full-service garage at Rochester, New York's Edison Technical High School.

Pete's been training the next generation of knuckle scrapers -- or, in Pete's case, upstanding Wrench Turners -- for more than nine years.

Find out what Pete DeBevers thinks of getting repairs done at the dealer, which cars bring him the most repeat business, the confounding challenges of training actual Somalian mechanics, and who his worst customer ever was... in the Car Talk Golden Wrench Interview.


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Read Car Talk's interview with Pete

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Read about past Golden Wrench Award winners

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The Car Talk Golden Wrench Award is given from time to time to a mechanic who demonstrates the highest levels of skill, the greatest amount of decency and personal integrity, and the willingness to go the extra mile for his customers. Know someone deserving? Nominate them!

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