Car Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly on NPR stations throughout the United States and elsewhere.

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.

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 "

Passing through: The theme song to the 1960s U. S. television comedy series Car 54, Where Are You?

Daytona Prototypes are a product of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, and offer a different interpretation of the prototype theme.

Indeed, print advertising of the time played on the theme of the American Southwest that the Spanish model name and longhorn symbol were meant to evoke, showing artistic representations of the vehicle being used in ranching and outdoor activities, proclaiming it as " More Than A Car!

According to Car and Driver, Lexus is working on a " clean sheet " replacement for the SC and the convertible theme will be retained, with a soft top instead of the hard top setup currently being used.

The Vinpearl Cable Car, a gondola lift system, links the mainland to the five-star resort and theme park on Hon Tre Island.

Rose Royce ( whose members were originally Starr's backing band while at Motown ) went on to record three more popular albums, but they could never top the success of " Car Wash ", which served as the theme song to the 1976 motion picture Car Wash.

Annual events include Saltburn Victorian Celebrations ( once known as Victorian Week ), the Saltburn Swashbuckle ( a beach event for children based on a piratical theme ), the Saltburn Custom Classic Car Show ( a lower prom display of mostly American cars ) and the annual Folk festival.

In Year 8 students complete mini projects within the theme of First Gear their Car Company.

His best-known works are his theme music compositions for public radio programs, including National Public Radio's Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !, Car Talk, and American Public Media's Marketplace.

Written and produced by the band's main producer Norman Whitfield, " Car Wash ", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful hit single and the lead single from their first album, the Car Wash soundtrack.

Unable to develop a theme song for the film, inspiration finally struck Whitfield while playing a game of basketball, and he allegedly wrote his first draft of " Car Wash " on a paper bag from a fried chicken eatery.

He can also be heard on the NPR's Car Talk theme song.

* " Car ", a song by Built to Spill on their 1994 album There's Nothing Wrong with Love

* " The Car " ( song ), a song by Jeff Carson on his 1995 album Jeff Carson

* " Southern Cross ", 1975 song by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils from their album The Car Over the Lake Album

They also co-wrote the song We Are The Normal with Paul for their 1993 album Superstar Car Wash.

* " Street Car ", a song by Canadian musician Hayden from his 2002 album Skyscraper National Park

* Madness mention Muswell Hill in their 1982 song, " Driving in My Car ": " I drive up to Muswell Hill, I've even been to Selsey Bill ".

" I Bet You " was later covered by the Jackson 5 on their album ABC, and sampled by the Beastie Boys for their song " Car Thief ".

* " Bangs ", a song by They Might Be Giants on the album Mink Car

By 1976 John “ Jay ” David ( ex Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show ) had replaced Franz on drums, and they issued a single “ Bar in my Car ”, on Buffalo Records, but the record company “ tanked as soon as the record came out .” Originally titled " I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of My Car ( And Drive Myself to Drink )", the song appears on numerous internet lists of " worst country song titles " as being from their album Fear of Frying, but this is incorrect.

* " Joy ", a song by Lucinda Williams on the album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

" Stupid Car " is a slower song, almost a ballad, and the first of many dealing with Thom Yorke's distrust of vehicles since he and his girlfriend were involved in a car crash.

Superstar Car Wash is the fourth studio album by the Goo Goo Dolls, released in February, 1993 on Warner Bros .. John Rzeznik wrote the song " We Are the Normal " with his idol, The Replacements ' singer Paul Westerberg.

" Purple Parallelogram ," a song written by Dando and Oasis's Noel Gallagher, was originally included on promotional copies of Car Button Cloth between " Something's Missing " and " Knoxville Girl ," but was reportedly removed at Gallagher's request.

" The song " New Car " by Cledus T. Judd used the instrumental portion of " Cars " after each chorus, partially performed with car horns.

* The song has been used in advertisements for the Discovery Channel's Future Car program, American Express, American football on ESPN, Carling beer, Folksam, Little Debbie, Nissan Altima and the Oldsmobile Alero, as well as the " Go Greener " campaign in Scotland.

Victory Records filmed a music video for " Understanding in a Car Crash " consisting of live footage of the band and marketed the song as the band's first single, without the band's authorization.

* " Sorrow ", a song by Box Car Racer from Box Car Racer

This show and many on the tour included the dedication of the song " Car " to Capps, who had played on the track when it was recorded.