Program Information: Car Talk
Host: Tom and Ray Magliozzi
CAR TALK is a very different kind of auto show! Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the Peabody Award-winning hosts of CAR TALK on National Public Radio (NPR), are better known as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers" -- taking their names from the clickety-clack sound made by aging autos. Tom and Ray dispense car advice in the broad accents of the tough East Cambridge neighborhood where they grew up. But take them seriously if you can! Both are graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1973, the brothers opened a do-it-yourself garage in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Hacker's Haven" provided rented space and tools for clients fixing their own cars. But as hippies turned into yuppies and car repair became more complicated, "Hacker's Haven" turned into the "Good News Garage," a conventional car repair service. As you'll hear, their show is as much about the lifestyles of certain car drivers as it is about actual cars! It's a great mix of info and laughter! One taste of this show, and you're hooked!
Car Talk premiered as a national program presented by NPR on October 31, 1987. How scary is that?
