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ZANE.

Hello Friends & Tweet.Drive.Loveologists,

I don’t know about you, but my first enjoyable “experience” with public radio includes the cackling laughter and the “ooooh Jacqueline or is it Jacquelieeeeeeeeeeeene?” of the charming Magliozzi Brothers aka Click and Clack.

I guess I (we all) are getting older when the people we listen to on the radio start RETIRING and I can’t believe I never once called into ask a car question and get to hear Tom and Ray say “Your name is ZANE???? Isn’t that a BOYS NAME?”

Will you be missing them too?

I am sending *{radio} air kisses to Click and Clack and while I have your attention ~ I am hoping you ready for your Summer Road Trippings?  We are finalizing plans right now and it is panning out like this: 

1. Fly from DFW to LAX
2. Family Road Trip down the California Coast to San Diego in a quest for LegoLand and the ZOO.
3. Stay a week and EXPLORE, both the California Coast and a Test Car (TBD*)
4. Celebrate Beau’s 8th Birthday, hence this title of this roadtrip is  “The SUMMER OF 8 Road Trip”   **I am sure the word “EPIC” will sneak it’s way into that title (Or at least my tweets)

Be sure to let us know what you are doing AND enjoy the article below from our friends at Automotive News on the retirement of Click and Clack

Drive [while listening to] What You Love,

ZANE.

via autonews.com

After 35 years, Click and Clack Hang Up The Wrenches

Two distinctive voices of American car culture will fall publicly silent this September when “Car Talk,” National Public Radio’s successful do-it-yourself mechanic show, stops producing original programming.

Brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi have been on the radio for 35 years — the last 25 nationwide — explaining how cars work, and how to fix them when they don’t.

“Click and Clack,” as the Magliozzi brothers always called themselves, demystified the automobile for millions by carefully listening to their callers’ concerns and offering answers from their decades of experience under the hood.

They weren’t always flattering to Detroit, its automakers or their products, but they never shied away from their opinions and they were never disingenuous to their audience.

Most importantly, the Magliozzi brothers diagnosed mechanical problems over the phone with a disarming, self-effacing humor that demonstrated an important point: Being a good mechanic, like being a good doctor, is often more art than science.

When they were wrong — or, as one brother would argue to the other, “full of it” — or they just didn’t know, they said so honestly. When the diagnosis was bad, they offered it up with sympathy, and were usually greeted with sincere thanks.

Of course, it’s easy to be kind and funny when your advice and diagnosis isn’t being delivered with a bill. But it’s harder to make adults and kids laugh while listening to people talk about mechanical issues on the radio — something the brothers did week in and week out.

Tom, 74, and 63-year-old Ray will still be on the air for a while, drawing recorded material from 25 years of archived conversations. They’ll also continue to do their newspaper column and run their Web site, cartalk.com, NPR says.

But just as the comic strip “Peanuts” seemed different in reruns after Charles M. Schulz passed away, so to will “Car Talk” likely change when the Magliozzis turn off their microphones.

My Saturday mornings just won’t be the same.

You can reach Larry P. Vellequette at lvellequette@crain.com.

via autonews.com