R.I.P. Click Tappet

[Ah Pook]

http://nypost.com/2014/11/03/tom-mag...lk-dies-at-77/

Tom Magliozzi, host of NPR’s ‘Car Talk,’ dies at 77

By Associated Press

November 3, 2014 | 4:42pm
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Brothers Tom Magliozzi (left) and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of National Public Radio's "Car Talk" show, pose together in Cambridge, Mass., in 2008. Photo: AP

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Tom Magliozzi, one half of the brother duo who hosted National Public Radio’s “Car Talk” where they bantered with callers and commiserated over their car problems, has died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, the news organization said Monday. He was 77 years old.
“Car Talk” was the network’s most popular entertainment program for years, reaching more than four-million people a week on more than 600 radio stations across the country.
It continued to be a top-rated show even after the brothers stopped taping live shows in 2012, and the network began airing repurposed and archived materials.
Car Talk Executive Producer Doug Berman, in a statement posted on NPR’s website, said Magliozzi’s “dominant, positive personality” will be missed.
“He and his brother changed public broadcasting forever,” he said. “Before Car Talk, NPR was formal, polite, cautious..even stiff.”
The duo, which called themselves the “Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers,” dispensed humor and advice about repairing cars. They ended their shows with a catchphrase — “Don’t drive like my brother” — delivered in their signature Boston accents.
In a statement posted on Car Talk’s website, Ray Magliozzi affectionately teased his late brother: “Turns out he wasn’t kidding … He really couldn’t remember last week’s puzzler.”


The Magliozzis were an unlikely radio duo.
The Cambridge, Mass. mechanics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates began their show on WBUR, Boston’s NPR affiliate, in 1977 as volunteers. The weekly program became nationally-broadcast starting in 1987 after building a steady local following.
Magliozzi was born June 28, 1937, in a largely Italian-American section of East Cambridge. According to NPR, he was the first in his family to attend college, earning a Chemical Engineering degree from MIT.
Magliozzi is survived by his first and second wives, three children, five grandchildren, and his close companion of recent years, Sylvia Soderberg, NPR said in a statement. In lieu of followers, the family has requested fans make a donation in his memory to either their local NPR station or the Alzheimer’s Association.

[RblDiver]

Didn't listen to them a lot, but I enjoyed 'em when I did. He'll be missed.

[Irving]

I thought I recognized the name when I read the title, then it hit me when I clicked on there. I didn't realize they stopped doing live recordings back in 2012. That was a good radio show.

[Brian]

Lots of good road trip memories listening to Car Talk on the weekends with my dad, and then later on with my kids (who still aren't quite old enough to appreciate it)

[Hound]

I listened all the time. Sad day. I hope the show goes on with his brother but it will never be the same.

[2XS]

I listened all the time. Sad day. I hope the show goes on with his brother but it will never be the same.

Chances are there won't be any new shows as there hasn't been in almost two years I assume that is when the Alzheimer's started to effect Tom. Rip in peace Tom what a great duo.

[Goodburbon]

This makes me sad.



Godspeed, and don't drive like your brother.


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[flogger]

I listened all the time. Sad day. I hope the show goes on with his brother but it will never be the same.

Me too, they were fun to listen to and had some fair advise. My favorites were black tape over the instrument panel warning light and anything with the word "Miracle" in the name as an engine additive.

R.I.P. Click Magliozzi.

[Doc45]

Another long time listener here, both my sons grew up listening/laughing along with me, great bonding time when in the car on Saturdays. Quite awhile ago Morley Safer did a story about them on 60 Miuntes (yeah, I know) that was great, need to see if it's available online. Alzheimer's and dementia are heart breaking, went through it with my mother in 2009. If there is an afterlife I hope he'll have some great drives in his beloved Dodge Dart or MG with his beast of a dog next to him.

[wctriumph]

Even my wife liked listening to Click & Clack. We loved those guys.

RIP & God speed.