Ever wonder what guitar would be appropriate for when your 82 Buick breaks down on the side of the road and you feel the need to immediately write a song about it? Well wonder no more. Martin has announced the release of the Car Talk Click and Clack Special Edition.

For those not in the know, Car Talk is an NPR show -- airing Saturday mornings -- where two brothers chat with listeners about their car troubles. I once figured out what was wrong with my '95 Ford Escort listening to the show (alternator). Now Click and Clake (aka Tom and Ray Magliozzi) have their own signature guitar which is worth significantly more than my car.

The Martin Car Talk Click and Clack Special Edition is a dreadnought using all solid wood (Engelmann spruce top, East Indian rosewood back and sides). The guitar also features a low profile neck with diamond volute, an African black ebony fingerboard and belly bridge, and a rosette done in abalone pearl matched by a colorful mosaic backstrip.

The polished ebony headplate has a mother-of-pearl inlay of Click and Clack in a dilapidated car trailing parts down the fret board in their wake (below the Old Style C.F. Martin decal logo). Those parts and tools - also inlaid in mother of pearl with thin pearl borders - serve as the fingerboard position markers. There is a fender (that's a bumper, gear-nerd) at the 3rd fret, muffler at the 5th fret, muffler pipe at the 7th fret, and on . The brothers' signatures appear in pearl at the 20th fret.

At the headstock, chrome enclosed tuners are equipped with unique custom cast "Car Talk" buttons - featuring a car similar to the one on the headplate. The Delmar pickguard is also unique, as it bears - thanks to new technology - a "printed" version of the classic "Car Talk" credits (heavy on the puns) that run at the end of the show. Aging toner gives the top vintage character under Martin's flawless polished gloss body finish, while the neck receives a satin finish for playing comfort.

The guitar comes in a Martin case with a "Car Talk" Massachusetts license plate.