The Tappet Brothers at a Glance 

Hey, Tom and Ray are celebrating 20 years of hosting Car Talk on NPR. They deserve at least a glance!

Quick, what do you think of The Tappet Brothers? 

Now you know. 

tap-pet (tap' it)

1. A lever or projecting arm that moves or is moved by contact with another part, usually to transmit motion, as between a driving mechanism and a valve.

2. Those two funny guys on the radio, the brothers who give car advice.

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Car Talk 2009 Daily Calendar

by Chronicle Books

Amazon Price: $8.72 (as of 10/12/2008)

Click and Clack's helpful car advice makes its way to your desktop in this handy daily calendar.

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You Heard it on Car Talk! 

Should you name your car?

Do You Remember Last Week's Puzzler? 

Tommy never does. He can find it here, and so can you.

Are you a Car Talk puzzler fan? You've come to the right place! Here are the latest puzzler puzzles. Can you solve them?

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The Tappet Brothers - Photo Ops 

Car Talk Field Guide to the North American Wacko 

Going on a road trip? Listen to a Car Talk audiobook and make the trip more fun!

Car Talk Field Guide to the North American Wacko

by Tom Magliozzi

From the Back Cover: A radio road trip across America features some of the nuttiest callers ever to phone Click and Clack. Like Dave from Bemidji, Minnesota, who relied on a rusty barbecue grill to get his Chevy Cavalier home from Alaska. And Dinesh, who strolls across Death Valley. Rather than worry about buzzards, he's concerned about how his car will hold up in the heat. Christy wants to know if she fried her dad's Citation. Tanya the personal trainer makes Genghis Khan seem like a Nobel Peace Prize winner. And single guy John wonders if he should tidy up his car for a first date or reveal his trashy self.

Listen to these calls and many more to learn that wackos aren't confined to Car Talk Plaza. They're everywhere, and they're dialing the phone. Four hilarious shows celebrate the land of the free, and the home of the wacko.

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Car Talk: The Greatest Stories Ever Told: Once Upon a Car Fire... (Car Talk) by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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You decide to waste another perfectly good hour getting bogus car advice from the Car Talk guys when what should happen but some remark from the caller launches either Tom or Ray off topic and onto a story about The Sleek Black Beauty, their most recent wife, or their days at MIT.0 points

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Car Talk: Doesn't Anyone Screen These Calls: Call About Animals and Cars by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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The guys share some of their favorite calls about the world where cars and animals meet. Luckily, its not dog-eat-dog, but sometimes its horse-eat-steering-wheel. Tom and Ray Magliozzi are Americas foremost auto mechanics. So usually people phone in to their radio show with questions about carsbuying them, driving them, keeping them running. But every so often, out of the blue, Click and Clack are also called on to be amateur veterinary psychologists. Theyre asked to figure out why a horse has e...0 points

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Car Talk: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Father When It Comes to Cars by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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It's a fact: 98% of what fathers say is dead wrong. Join famous syndicated radio talk show hosts and ingenious car experts Click and Clack as they bring this little known fact to light. Car Talk: Why You Should Never Listen to Your Father ... is a hilarious collection of the Tappet brothers' favorite calls over the years about fathers, fatherly advice, and fatherly negotiations around the use of cars and car care. Fathers may be wrong most of the time, but Tom and Ray show us why we love them an...0 points

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Faces Made for Radio: the Car Talk Video

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Starring Click and Clack and other famous brothers: the Smothers Brothers; Flying Karamazov Brothers; Dr. Joyce Brothers; and More...

Tom and Ray Magliozzi (Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, of NPR's Car Talk fame) pull together an extraordinary cast of "other famous brothers" to celebrate Car Talk's 10th anniversary. It's just what you wuld expect from America's funniest auto mechanics: laughs, surprises, a mock PBS documentary, and even a few useful pieces of car advice. (OK, that's str...0 points

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In Our Humble Opinion: Car Talk's Click and Clack Rant and Rave by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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"If you are a fan of the program, you'll love every page of this." (Baltimore Sun)

"Self-deprecating wit." (Publishers Weekly)

"Hitting on all cylinders, the brothers cover topics from Starbucks' ridiculous nomenclature...to UFOs to theories of education." (New Orleans Times-Picayune)

This madcap collection of original rants, raves, musings, and declarations from the hosts of "National Public Radio's most popular non-news show" (New York Times), addresses a variety of topics from politics and...0 points

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Car Talk Puzzler Deck: 75 All-time Favorite Puzzlers from Click and Clack by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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This deck features 75 of the best brainteasers from America's funniest car mechanics, Click and Clack, hosts of Car Talk, NPR's acclaimed radio show. Car Talk's infamous puzzlers invite right- and left-brain thinking and range from bonehead easy to dangerously difficult.0 points

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Best and Second Best of Car Talk: with Click and Clack

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It's a laugh-out-loud collection of wisecracks, automotive first aid, and roadside philosophy. Tom and Ray have gathered the most outrageous and humorous segments from their weekly call-in radio show, including "Eggs Prestone," "Bad Hair Days," "Clinton Sends Vowels to Bosnia," "Gail, the Tollgate Fugitive," and the Tappet Brothers personal favorite, the tale of Max and his little Schnauzer.0 points

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Car Talk Car Tunes: CD by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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After "Will you guys please go away?," Car Talk car tunes are the most frequent listener requests fielded by Click and Clack, the famous Tappet brothers. Listeners searching for disrespectful, irreverent car tunes that express their true feelings about their cars need look no further.

Facing another incomprehensible, costly repair? Wondering how you managed to buy the only lemon on the lot? Sitting by the dusty roadside waiting for a tow? Tom and Ray have always been there for you and they'll be...0 points

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Car Talk Maternal Combustion: Calls about Moms and Cars (Car Talk) by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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Moms have served honorably in the minivan wars. Negotiated conflicting advise between husbands and fathers. Now brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi give mothers their due respect in this new collection of calls from Car Talk.0 points

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Car Talk: Hatchback of Notre Dame: MORE CAR TALK CLASSICS by Ray Magliozzi, Tom Magliozzi

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The Hatchback of Notre Dame includes many memorable Car Talk classics, including Morley Safer of CBS's Sixty Minutes, displaying a downright embarrassing obsession with his Peugeot, and space shuttle astronaut John Grunsfeld, who calls from Hawaii. (Well, 700 miles over Hawaii, actually). And, there's one of Click and Clack's all-time favorite callers, their pal Dave from Bemidji, sharing the sordid tale of his journey to Alaska.0 points

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Car Talk Car Tunes: CD by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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After "Will you guys please go away?," Car Talk car tunes are the most frequent listener requests fielded by Click and Clack, the famous Tappet brothers. Listeners searching for disrespectful, irreverent car tunes that express their true feelings about their cars need look no further.

Facing another incomprehensible, costly repair? Wondering how you managed to buy the only lemon on the lot? Sitting by the dusty roadside waiting for a tow? Tom and Ray have always been there for you and they'll be...0 points

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Car Talk: Born Not to Run: More Disrespectful Car Songs by Tom Magliozzi, Ray Magliozzi

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Born Not to Run is a collection of car tunes as irreverent as they are melodic. With titles like, "If She Wasn't On Blocks," Who Taught These Idiots To Drive," and "Built to Crash," we guarantee that you'll be simultaneously tapping your toes, laughing out loud and shaking your head. For these reasons, we ask that you not listen to Born Not to Run and drive at the same time. More fun from Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.0 points

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Click & Clack Have a TV Show? 

They're gonna. Wow, PBS is brave.

As the Wrench Turns

They've always said they had faces made for radio. Well, PBS must have taken them seriously because they've animated Tom and Ray Magliozzi, also known as The Tappet Brothers, and given them their own TV show! The Car Talk guys may not show their fac...

In Case You Stump the Chumps . . . 

Here are some car care resources if Click & Clack can't help you.

How Cars Work

by Tom Newton

Amazon Price: $12.21 (as of 10/12/2008)

Buying a Car for Dummies

by Deanna Sclar

Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 10/12/2008)

Auto Repair For Dummies

by Deanna Sclar

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 10/12/2008)

Geek's Guide to Auto Maintenance: Don't Be a Dummy. Get Twice as Smart for Half the Price. (The Geek's Guides series)

by Lynne L. Hall

Amazon Price: (as of 10/12/2008)

How to Repair Your Car (Motorbooks Workshop)

by Paul Brand

Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/12/2008)

Car Magazines Perfect for Car Talk Fans 

Car buffs love their cars and enjoy keeping up-to-date on the latest car news. Here's a selection of the most popular car magazines.

Popular Mechanics (1-year...

Car and Driver

Motor Trend

Road & Track

Automobile

The Tappet Brothers on the 'Net 

From Cambridge (their fair city) to the world wide web!

CarTalk.com

Car Talk's website. The Puzzler, the Mechanics' Files, and everything you love about the radio show. Oh, yeah. They even have really good information about buying, selling, and owning a car.

Listen online.

Can't find Car Talk on the radio? No problemo. Just listen to this week's show online.

All about Tommy

From East Cambridge, Mass., to MIT, and eventually to Car Talk with all the steps in between. Everything you never knew you wanted to know about Thomas L. Magliozzi.

Ray's Auto-Biography

How Ray went from Our Fair City to, well, Our Fair City and The Good News Garage. You'll even find out about the third brother (Tom and Ray's sister, Lucille).

Tom and Ray on 60 Minutes II

Tom and Ray make it to the small screen. Steve Kroft talks to Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers.

Car Talk on NPR

Tom and Ray Magliozzi's National Public Radio biography page.

The Tappet Brothers on YouTube 

Faces made for radio? Well, maybe, but you have to agree that they're a couple of pretty talented car guys!

Altwheels Click and Clack

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Mechanic's Shrug

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Car Talk Credits 

Just a few of the many of the Dewey, Cheatham and Howe staff.

Shout Out For The Tappet Brothers! 

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