Car Talk Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies at 77

ambiophonics

It's a sad day today with news of Tom's death. I was just listening to a rerun of car talk this weekend thinking about how funny Tom and Ray were. He will be missed.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/03/360340663/car-talk-co-host-tom-magliozzi-dies-at-77

drumminman

So sorry to hear this. Car Talk has been a Saturday morning staple while running errands.

gdb

Was he Click or Clack ?? Very sad news, their laughs are/were infectious ! (Is it OK to say "infectious" in this era of Ebola ?? )

pumpkinman

Very sad my wife and I have listened and laughed with them many a Sat. morning

drumminman

Didn't realize that their last live show was in 2012 until I read up on Tom's death.

mhardy6647

listening to a rebroadcast of a 2001 interview with the brothers on Fresh Air even as I type this. Available on-line, too:
http://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/

EDIT: specific link:
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/04/361408028/-we-have-learned-absolutely-nothing-tom-magliozzi-on-decades-of-car-talk

An aside:
Once, long ago, when I worked in Cambridge, my old Chevy Cavalier had a water pump failure on my way to work (it was a cold and very damp morning -- I think I drove about 15 miles air cooled!). My company's purchasing director's boyfriend worked as a mechanic at a garage just down the street from our corporate HQ (such as it was). She got him to fix it and I picked it up later that night. Only the next day did I find out whose garage it was.

gdb

I've been tempted to take a vehicle or two to Goss' Garage of Motor Week fame. Sucks that they moved from Owings Mills to Lanham-Seabrook, though !