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NPR's 'Car Talk' Putting on Brakes

After 35 years, the chatty pair of mechanic brothers from Boston are calling it quits.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as the Saturday morning radio mechanics on NPR's "Car Talk," are calling it quits, the Associated Press reports.

They show will continue to air in reruns, but after 35 years of giving at once useful and hilarious advice on car maintenance to callers with every manner of malfunction, no new episodes will be produced. Older brother Tom is 74 years old, while Ray is 63.

The show was first broadcast on Boston's WBUR in 1977. It's now the most popular program on NPR and is heard coast-to-coast.

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Locally, Car Talk airs on KQED on Saturdays at 10 a.m. 

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