Popular radio personality Tom Magliozzi died on Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease, NPR reports. He was 77 years old.
Tom and his brother, Ray, became famous as Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers on the weekly NPR show "Car Talk," turning their advice about car troubles into entertaining radio with their bantering and joking.
As NPR notes, the one thing that fans know most defined Tom Magliozzi was his laugh. It was infectious.
Tom was 12 years older than Ray. They grew up in a tough neighborhood of East Cambridge, Mass., in a close-knit Italian family. On the show, they came off as funny, regular-guy mechanics, but both graduated from MIT.
In addition to the radio show, the brothers appeared in the 2006 Pixar film, "Cars." In 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series, "Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns," playing fictionalized versions of themselves.
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Tom and his brother, Ray, became famous as Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers on the weekly NPR show "Car Talk," turning their advice about car troubles into entertaining radio with their bantering and joking.
As NPR notes, the one thing that fans know most defined Tom Magliozzi was his laugh. It was infectious.
Tom was 12 years older than Ray. They grew up in a tough neighborhood of East Cambridge, Mass., in a close-knit Italian family. On the show, they came off as funny, regular-guy mechanics, but both graduated from MIT.
In addition to the radio show, the brothers appeared in the 2006 Pixar film, "Cars." In 2008, the brothers starred in their own PBS animated series, "Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns," playing fictionalized versions of themselves.
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We lost one of the good guys, Tom Magliozzi
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