page_title: Tom and Ray Magliozzi
section_title: Other work
hierarchical_section_title: Tom and Ray Magliozzi / Career / Other work
caption_attribution_description: Offices of Dewey, Cheetham and Howe, Cambridge, MA is the home of the Car Talk guys, Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi.
context_page_description: Thomas Louis "Tom" Magliozzi and his brother Raymond Francis "Ray" Magliozzi were the co-hosts of NPR's weekly radio show Car Talk, where they were known as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers". Their show was honored with a Peabody Award in 1992.
  Tom died on November 3, 2014 aged 77 in Belmont, Massachusetts due to complications from Alzheimer's disease.
context_section_description: In addition to the radio show, Tom wrote for CarTalk.com and ran his own consulting business. In 1999, the brothers returned to MIT to deliver a joint commencement speech to the graduates.
  In 1989, the brothers started a newspaper column Click and Clack Talk Cars which, like the radio show, mixed serious advice with humor. King Features distributes the column. Ray continued to write the column, retitled Car Talk, after his brother's death in 2014, knowing he would have wanted the advice and humor to continue.
  Tom and Ray both appeared in the Pixar films Cars (2006) and Cars 3 (2017). (Tom's role in the third film was accomplished through archival recordings, as it was produced after his death.) They played the owners of Rust-eze who discovered Lightning McQueen and gave him his first big break. Tom appeared as a 1963 Dodge Dart convertible, a reference to a car that he owned for many years and often mentioned on Car Talk. Ray appeared as a 1964 Dodge A100 van. In both films, they admonished: "Don't drive like my brother", the catchphrase from the close of their radio show.
  The Magliozzi brothers also appeared in the sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series) in an episode called "Driving Mr. Goodman" which aired on May 3, 2002. Sabrina calls them on a magical car radio for car advice. In the same year they appeared in the PBS Kids show Arthur episode called "Pick a Car, Any Car" which aired on November 25, 2002. Arthur calls them with a question about the family car, which would have been hauled away by the local mechanic without their help. The answer turns out to be a baby rattle lodged in the car's tailpipe. In 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns, playing fictionalized versions of themselves. They also hosted an episode of the PBS show NOVA entitled "The Car of the Future".
caption: Harvard Square offices of "Dewey, Cheetham and Howe", headquarters of Car Talk
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