Travel and Transportation - Humor, Automobiles - General & Miscellaneous, Automobile Repair & Maintenance - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
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 computer addiction to Hollywood and coffee culture in short, pithy, sometimes caustic-but always amusing-essays.Author Biography: Tom and Ray Magliozzi are the hosts of Car Talk, the popular weekly radio show heard by millions nationwide on NPR. Graduates of MIT, the brothers opened a do-it-yourself auto repair shop and found themselves doing all the actual repairs. In 1977, Tom and Ray began dispensing car repair information on local radio and since 1987 NPR has broadcast the show nationally on Weekend Edition. Tom is a consultant and Ray still runs the repair shop.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
In 1977, not long after Tom and Ray Magliozzi opened their auto repair shop, the MIT-graduate brothers launched a radio show devoted, nominally at least, to fixing cars. Every week, hundreds of thousands of listeners, many of them confirmed "engine virgins," tune in to Car Talk, Tom and Ray's talkfest about cars, coffee, computers, and anything else that crosses their minds. NPR's most popular non-news show, Car Talk is perhaps the strangest hit in the history of broadcasting, a strange amalgam of automotive know-how, arcane opinions, and genial rants and raves. This lavishly uproarious collection of Magliozzi irreverence will cause more jolts than a good jumper cable.Book Details
Published
May 7, 2002
Publisher
Penguin Group (USA)
Pages
288
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780641530449