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'Car Talk' Calls it Quits
After 25 years, the chatty pair of mechanic brothers from Boston are putting on the brakes.
Sad news out of Boston today: Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as the Saturday morning radio mechanics on NPR's "Car Talk," are calling it quits, NPR reports.
The show will continue to air in reruns, but after 25 years of giving at once useful and hilarious advice on car maintenance to callers with every manner of malfunction, no new episodes will be produced. Older brother Tom is 74 years old, while Ray is 63.
The show was first broadcast on WBUR in Boston in 1977. It's now the most popular program on NPR and is heard coast-to-coast.
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The show airs in the Tampa Bay area on WUSF 89.7. It is unclear whether WUSF will put another show in the "Car Talk" Saturday 10 a.m. time slot or air reruns.
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