The hosts of Car Talk are brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, known on the air as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.

On June 8, 2012, it was announced that after 35 years of hosting the show, the Magliozzi brothers were retiring and that Car Talk would stop producing new episodes as of October 2012, but that NPR will continue airing the show in reruns.

Car Talk is structured as a call-in radio show: listeners call with questions related to motor vehicle maintenance and repair.

Car Talk was first broadcast on WBUR in Boston in 1977.

The Car Talk theme song is " Dawggy Mountain Breakdown " by bluegrass artist David Grisman.

Although the approximately 2, 000 queries received each week are screened by the Car Talk staff, the questions are unknown to the Magliozzis in advance as " that would entail researching the right answer, which is what?

For each puzzler, one correct answer is chosen at random, with the winner receiving a $ 26 gift certificate to the Car Talk store, referred to as the " Shameless Commerce Division ".

They also comment at the end of each show: " Well, it's happened again-you've squandered another perfectly good hour listening to Car Talk.

DC & H doubles as the business name of Tappet Brothers Associates, the corporation established to manage the business end of Car Talk.

On July 11, 2007, PBS announced that it had greenlit an animated adaptation of Car Talk, to air on prime-time in 2008.

The show is entitled Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns, and is based on the adventures of the fictional " Click and Clack " brothers ' garage at " Car Talk Plaza ".

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Other radio talk show subjects include Car Talk hosted by NPR and Coast to Coast AM hosted by Art Bell and George Noory which discusses topics of the paranormal, conspiracy theories, fringe science and the just plain weird.

The Springsteen and Clemons cover pose has been imitated often, from Cheap Trick on the album Next Position Please, to Tom and Ray Magliozzi on the cover of the Car Talk compilation Born Not to Run: More Disrespectful Car Songs, to Kevin & Kell on a Sunday strip entitled " Born to Migrate " featuring Kevin Dewclaw as Bruce with a carrot and Kell Dewclaw as Clarence with a pile of bones, to Bert and the Cookie Monster on the cover of the Sesame Street album Born to Add.

The National Public Radio show Car Talk has occasionally addressed this paradox in the context of automotive reliability.

In 1993, Glass said, " I like to think of it as the only show on public radio other than Car Talk that both Daniel Schorr news analyst and Kurt Cobain singer / guitarist of Nirvana ( band ) | Nirvana could listen to.

* Official Car Talk Guide to Jump Starting Your Car-by Car Talk's Tom and Ray Magliozzi, " Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers "

The success of these grips ensured that this line became the model for other cable car transit systems, and this model is often known as the Hallidie Cable Car.

Another widely distributed early story mentioning the Darwin Awards is the JATO Rocket Car, which describes a man who strapped a JATO ( Jet-Assisted Take-Off ) unit to his Chevrolet Impala in the Arizona desert and who died gloriously on the side of a cliff as his car achieved speeds of 250 to 300 miles per hour.

* LaBiche Aerospace's LaBiche FSC-1 is a developmental prototype Flying Car and is an example of a practical flying car capable of utilizing today's automotive and aviation infrastructure to provide true " door-to-door " travel.

* The Ngong Ping Cable Car is a public cableway on Lantau Island.

Car hire for self-drive is not recommended in Libya, although it is possible to hire a vehicle from agents in larger hotels.

Car ownership in Malta is exceedingly high given the very small size of the islands.

In MUMPS terms, " Color " is the 2nd subscript of the variable ^ Car ( both the names of the child-nodes and the child-nodes themselves are likewise called subscripts ).

Inducing oversteer is easy and very controllable, thus making the MX-5 a popular choice for amateur and stock racing, including, in the US, the Sports Car Club of America's Solo2 autocross and Spec Miata race series, and in the UK, the Ma5da racing championship.

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing ( NASCAR ) is a family-owned and-operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events.

Car ownership in the Netherlands is not particularly high, and lower than in surrounding countries.

* 1929 – The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.

Car bodies are primed using cathodic elephoretic primer, which is applied by charging the body depositing a layer of primer.

The Presidential State Car is a 1947 Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith landaulette, which is used for ceremonial occasions.

* An REO is mentioned in a humorous 1933 short story by James Thurber entitled, The Car We Had to Push.

The " Single-O " is a single attraction, for example a single curiosity like the " Bonnie and Clyde Death Car " or Hitler's staff car, a " Giant Rat " ( actually usually a nutria ) or other unusual animal, a " What Is It?

Car audio / video ( car AV ) or Vehicle audio for non-car vehicles, auto radio, mobile audio, 12-volt and other terms are used to describe the sound or video system fitted in a vehicle.

Also during the 1930s, Tibbett had a domestic radio program sponsored by the Packard Motor Car Company of America on which he sang formal music.

* Car radio, Radio Data System ( RDS )

Four Men in a Car was notable for being the first broadcast on either television or radio, to involve Rik Mayall since his quad bike accident.

The phone was found, still off the hook, minutes later at the Napa Car Wash on Main Street in Napa by KVON radio reporter Pat Stanley, only a few blocks from the sheriff's office, yet 27 miles from the crime scene.

Car heating was introduced, as was the in-car radio.

Tom Bosley did radio commercials for the new Saturn Car Company a " different kind of car company ," in 1990.

Following his success on Cheers, Wendt starred in the short-lived The George Wendt Show, which featured him as a garage mechanic with a radio show, based on the NPR radio show Car Talk.

* Family Plot — Car sabotage by radio being played too loud.

Car radio types 15D1 and 15D2 have 13. 0 volt heaters with 200 mA and 150 mA current ratings, respectively.

The offices of Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe, home of the radio show Car TalkThe office of NPR's Car Talk radio show faces the square, with a stencil in the window that reads " Dewey, Cheetham & Howe ," the fictional law firm often referenced on the show.

During this flight, Grunsfeld placed a phone call to NPR's auto-repair radio show, Car Talk.

The station carries most of the major public radio programs, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Car Talk, and Prairie Home Companion, as well as several locally produced music programs.

Wombwell Sports Stadium is close to the site of the former South Yorkshire Sports Stadium, and is now the home of the South Yorkshire Kart Club, an MSA affiliated Kart racing club and also Wombwell R / C Model Car Club, a BRCA affiliated radio control car racing club.

The first radio single for All Sides, " Shattered ( Turn the Car Around )," was released for download on June 13.

He is the " trusty sidekick " on the Jerry Reynolds Car Pro Show ( http :// carproshow. com ) on WBAP / 820 AM radio in Dallas / Ft.

* ISO 10486 -- Car radio identification number