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'Car Talk' Putting on Brakes
Owner of Fourth Street Auto Care Center in Royal Oak is sorry to hear NPR's chatty pair of mechanic brothers are calling it quits.
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.
"I've listened to the show several times," said Rick Kilbourn, owner of in Royal Oak. "I am sorry to see it go. Being in this business, it's hard to diagnose car problems over the phone. I thought they did a pretty good job."
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As for the brothers' humor, Kilbourn said that was "pretty good, too,"
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, including a dozen stations in Michigan.
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