Publisher, HighBridge Audiobooks (October 2006)

Tom and Ray Magliozzi are America’s foremost auto mechanics. Most people phone in to their radio show with questions about cars: buying them, driving them, cursing them, keeping them running. But advice is just the tip of the Car Talk carburetor. In between are songs, jokes, puzzlers, rants—and, most famously, digressions. Give the guys an inch of airspace and they’ll riff on almost anything. That’s what this collection is about: telling stories, going off on tangents, taking verbal detours, and convincing a delighted audience to come along. Whatever happened to Tommy’s Dart? Why is Doug the subway fugitive? Listen, learn—and laugh.

CAR TALK, winner of a Peabody Award, is broadcast each week to National Public Radio stations nationwide. The world's wackiest call-in show, it mixes automotive advice with wisecracks, roadside philosophy, and guffaws. No problem is too ridiculous, no solution is too absurd, and before you know it, you’ve wasted another hour.

About the Creators: TOM AND RAY MAGLIOZZI, better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, host National Public Radio’s Car Talk, a weekly syndicated call-in program. Their wacky, uninhibited, thoroughly unrehearsed show has endeared them to millions of listeners. Winners of the Peabody Award in broadcasting, the brothers have been handing out advice on everything from car repair to marriage repair since 1977. Their twice-weekly newspaper column, “Click and Clack Talk Cars,” appears in more than 200 newspapers around the country.