On this audio file, at 1:40, what does in the rack mean?
It's what I hear:
I got three cars in the rack, it's all over the place down here, you know.
Source: The ILI English Series, Intermediate 2, Page 87
Learn English – The meaning of “in the rack”
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I agree that it's probably on the rack, not in the rack.
Rack likely means either something like this, which is a car lifter for maintenance work:
Or something like this, which is just a lifter to hold cars for storage:
Being on the rack means "on a lifter", probably the first type since they're inside a mechanic's garage. From the context, a car radiator is apparently leaking around the three cars on the rack.
Note that there doesn't need to be a single rack for the mechanic to use on the rack, since it's similar to a construction like on the road. As long as the cars are in (a) rack(s), then he's saying something true about those cars. Whether he's telling the truth about the radiator in the lady's car is another thing altogether!