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Farewell: Car Talk's Tom Magliozzi left laughing

“Click and Clack,” The Tappet Brothers of National Public Radio’s Car Talk program, otherwise known as Ray, left, and Tom Magliozzi, address the graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 4, 1999, in Cambridge, Mass. The brothers, themselves former graduates of MIT, were the keynote speakers at this year’s graduation ceremony. (Photo: Julia Malakie, AP)Last SlideNext SlideTom, left, and Ray Magliozzi of NPR’s “Car Talk” in 2008.(Photo: PBS)St. Peter must be wondering what’s all that racket at the Pearly Gates now that Tom Magliozzi has pulled up in a ramshackle old Chevy, laughing uproariously and shouting, “Don’t drive like my brother!”The older half of the beloved National Public Radio show Car Talk‘s “Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers,” is gone, meaning no one else is likely to make yakking and yucking it up about cars — cars, for Pete’s sake! — a laugh-a-minute riot ever again, even to people who couldn’t care less about cars.”Click has lost his Clack,” tweet-mourned Arnie Siepel of NPR.”Who knew carburetors could be so funny?” tweeted David Corn, Washington editor of Mother Jones.So it went all afternoon Monday as the worlds of cars, comics and radio reacted to the passing of Magliozzi, who died of complications from Alzheimer‘s disease. He was 77.In a statement announcing his brother’s death, brother Ray alluded to a familiar joke about the weekly puzzlers they always featured in the show.”Turns out he wasn’t kidding. He really couldn’t remember last week’s puzzler,” Ray said. “We can be happy that he lived the life he wanted to live; goofing off a lot, talking to you guys every week and primarily laughing his a*s off.”That could be his brother’s epitaph: The one thing fans know most defined Tom was his infectious laugh.Tom and Ray made Car Talk a weekly must-hear show, turning their advice about car troubles into entertaining radio with their jokes and brotherly bantering, with each other and with their call-in guests. Many people called as much to talk to them as to find out what was wrong with their cars.The show, one of NPR’s most popular, began as a radio show on WBUR in Boston decades ago, back when more people actually fixed their own cars. The brothers took calls, answered questions, offered their brain-teasing math “puzzlers” and generally goofed off.”When we first started doing the show, it was mainly to attract customers to (our) garage,” Ray told USA TODAY in an interview in 2008. “We saw that as a vehicle, no pun intended, to get people to know who we were.” Tom said they couldn’t mention the name of the garage or where it was. “So we came up with the idea of the puzzler, and we told people to send their answers to the garage, at this address, and repeated it several times.”Cue the loud laugh. And a booming business: The show went national in 1987, and the brothers ended up with something of a media empire that included books, a syndicated newspaper column, a website and TV stints.Tom was 12 years older than Ray. They grew up in a tough neighborhood of East Cambridge, Mass., in a close-knit Italian family. On the show, they came off as funny, regular-guy mechanics, but both graduated from MIT.In addition to the radio show, the brothers appeared in the 2006 Pixar film, Cars. In 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series, Click and Clack’s As the Wrench Turns, playing fictionalized versions of themselves.Tom was the first in his family to attend college. He got a degree in chemical engineering, but he was never that enthralled by work, particularly the 9-to-5 world.”He actually hated working in any world,” Ray said in an NPR blog post. “Later on, when we were doing Car Talk, he would come in late and leave early. We used to warn him that if he left work any earlier, he’d pass himself coming in.”Tom once described his own attitude to his listeners: “Don’t be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you. I did such a fabulous job of making work afraid of me that it has avoided me my whole life so far.”Before Car Talk, he “worked” as a Harvard Square bum, a house painter, an inventor and an auto mechanic. But Car Talk allowed him to do what he loved most, Ray said: “Making friends, philosophizing, thinking out loud, solving people’s problems and laughing his butt off.”NPR’s Susan Stamberg paid tribute to Tom in a New Hampshire Public Radio blog post, saying, “Funny and smart and big-hearted, Tom was as warm in real life as he was on the radio.”Car Talk ran from 1987 to 2012. It remains a top-rated show on NPR stations where it plays in syndication.Tom is survived by his first wife, Julia; second wife, Joanne; his children, Lydia Icke, Alex and Anna Magliozzi; five grandchildren; and his close companion of recent years, Sylvia Soderberg.In a note on the NPR site, Ray asked, “In lieu of flowers or rotten fish, I know my brother would prefer folks made a donation to their favorite public radio station in his memory.”Twitter |

@cartalkCar Talk on Twitter: “Remembering Tom. http://t.co/0ekgwHmVlY http://t.co/td2nvaiNwD”Contributing: Gary Levin

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Tom Magliozzi Of 'Car Talk' Has Died At 77

APIn this July 9, 1991 photo, Brothers Tom, left, and Ray Magliozzi pose under a car hood in Boston.Tom Magliozzi, who is one half of NPR’s famed “Car Talk” duo, has died of Alzheimer’s Disease at 77. He and his brother Ray, who were known as “Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers,” started the show in Boston in 1977 and took it national to NPR ten years later. It was a radio staple for decades. The brothers retired from the show in 2012. “Tom’s been such a dominant, positive personality amongst us for so long that all of us in the public radio family — and I include our millions of listeners — will find this news very difficult to receive,” “Car Talk” Executive Producer Doug Berman said in a statement to NPR. The family is asking that people make donations to the Alzheimer’s Association or their favorite public radio station in lieu of sending flowers.

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Ray Magliozzi Net Worth

NET WORTH: $1.5 MILLION DATE OF BIRTH 1949-03-30 PLACE OF BIRTH CAMBRIDGE PROFESSION VOICE ACTOR, MECHANIC CATEGORY RICHEST CELEBRITIES, AUTHORS

Ray Magliozzi Net Worth:Ray Magliozzi is an American radio personality who has a net worth of $1.5 million. Ray Magliozzi was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in March 1949. Ray is best known for being the co-host of the NPR radio show Car…

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Tom Magliozzi & 1963 Dodge Dart

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One week ago today we heard the sad news. RIP Tom Magliozzi, I hope you and your Dart are together again.

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Ray Magliozzi presents a memorial for his brother Tom in the form of clips that highlight his best and most prominent characteristics. Be prepared to hear Tom laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. Strange to think that laugh is gone from the world, but it’s wonderful that there are so many years of it recorded to keep the memory of him alive.

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Tom Magliozzi Tribute

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On Tuesday, November 4, we all learned that Tom Magliozzi of Car Talk fame had passed away on Monday. Tom and Ray stopped doing the new episodes back in October 2012. I was afraid that was a sign one of them was suffering ill health. They did that show out of love. You don’t stop doing something you love without a damn good reason. To quote Car Talk Executive Producer Doug Berman, “They always said they were going to do it long as it was fun.” After 35 years, apparently it stopped being fun. Berman confirmed on Tuesday’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross that Tommy was feeling the effects of Alzheimer's. Listen to the interview here, you might learn something you didn’t know about the show’s origins. Condolences to Ray, Tom’s family, Doug Berman and everyone else on the Car Talk team.

Ok, now that the grieving is out of the way, let’s consider what Tom would have wanted. Would he want Car Talk fans writing long, morose, essays about the gloom of old age and shuffling off this mortal coil? Hell no! He’d want us to laugh, remember our favorite calls, and use this as an opportunity to crack wise about cars and the people who drive them. Just like he and Ray did for 35 years. People in the business who knew Tom and Ray have covered all the story angles we expect to see when an icon dies, and I have included links to those sources at the bottom of the page. This is a personal perspective from a regular fan.

I’ve been listening to Car Talk since the mid-80s, right before they went national with Doug Berman and NPR. I haven’t been able to find any episodes from that early era. I would love to compare their “polished, official NPR” style with their early rogue days when they operated with the following instructions from WBUR - "You're on your own, have a good time, and try to watch your language."

Tom and Ray’s easy banter gave a car nut like me something in common with my normal family members not afflicted with gearheaditis. Many a drive was made brighter with the boys chortling through the speakers of our Mazda 626. Probably took my parents’ minds off the fact that I was behind the wheel and still in my formative driving years.

The show had broad appeal because it wasn’t really about cars, unlike my other favorite automotive themed shows - Chasing Classic Cars, Wheeler Dealers, Mecum Auto Auctions, and Top Gear. Car Talk was actually about people and relationships - cars were just the vehicle (pun intended) to start conversations. Marriages, mothers, dads, daughters, sons, siblings, boyfriends, girlfriends, just friends, and foes – those were the real topics that most people cared about. Gear heads like me who actually understood the difference between a tie-rod and a tappet enjoyed it because once a week we had something to talk about with the normal people. Plus we got to showcase our superior automotive knowledge. (And yet, people still let me listen with them.) When it comes to bringing people together with laughter, over any subject, it’s tough to top the Magliozzi brothers.

There was something special about that Saturday morning ritual of washing, waxing, and detailing my machine to the accompaniment of Tommy’s raucous laugh and folksy insights. Back in the prehistoric days before podcasts, I’d have to time it just right to be out there with the hose and bucket at 11 AM to catch those first strain of “Dawggy Mountain Breakdown”, the show’s theme music. As appointment listening became obsolete, I could saunter out to the driveway on my own schedule, bucket and hose in hand, iPhone in my pocket. They were also the perfect backdrop for doing mundane tasks around the house. I recall building Ikea furniture or dusting my car magazine collection while the boys took calls from the likes of Chloe from Portland who had a question about a funny clunking sound coming from her ‘96 Subaru Outback.

In taking calls from around the country, they never let anyone get away without a jab or some commentary on their name and city. They had a keen ear for dialect, local flavor, and the caller’s true motivations. Like when people would call in looking for advice about which new car to buy, Tom and Ray could cajole them to admit that their current car, while old, was still serviceable and could be driven for many more years with just minor repairs. That was part of a thrifty Yankee spirit they brought to the show, enhanced with their thick accents and Bostonian accents replete with dropped Rs. It is a rare talent to be able to do this on the fly, on the air. You went from zero to best friend in 10 seconds flat, creating so many memorable moments. Here are some of my favorites.

The Best Of Car Talk will continue to air the show on Saturday morning “as long as people want to listen to it” according to Berman. With 25 years’ worth of archives and over 12,000 calls to work with, many of them previously unaired, there’s still gas in the tank.

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Classic Tom Magliozzi Quotes

“It's only a car.” "Do it while you're young. You may never have another chance to do anything this stupid again!" "Happiness equals reality minus expectations" “How do you know if you've got a good mechanic? By the size of his boat.” "If money can fix it, it's not a problem." “Our Humility is what makes us great.” “Reality often astonishes theory.” "Life is too short to own a German car.” “Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it’s too late.” “Non Impediti Ratione Cogitationis” - “Unencumbered by the thought process.” Tom’s self-proclaimed motto. “Never let the facts stand in the way of a good answer” "Some guy I met said it's amazing how we use cars on our show as an excuse to discuss everything in the world—energy, psychology, behavior, love, money, economics and finance. The cars themselves are boring as hell." “It is better to travel in hope than arrive in despair.” "If it falls off, it doesn't matter.” "I like to drive with the windows open. I mean, before you know it, you're going to spend plenty of time sealed up in a box anyway, right?”

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