When will Car Talk’s last “live” show air?

The first national show apparently was broadcast on October 31, 1987. That might be a clue anyway. [image] Car Talk 2012 Daily Calendar: 365 Days of Tips, Jokes, and Puzzlers from America's Funniest Car Mechanics: Tom Magliozzi: 9780811879590: Amazon.com: Books In this illustrated cale…

This is by no means authoritative, but…the train may have already left the station. On last week’s program, someone phoned in about a problem that he had experienced with a rental 1999 Pontiac. Since not even Rent-a-Wreck keeps cars that long, I have to believe that this particular phone call was…

From today’s Boston Globe: In October, Tom and Ray will record their last completely new episode at WBUR, but the radio show on NPR will continue, and their weekly newspaper column will be published in the Boston Globe’s Automotive section every Saturday starting September 29.

Hmmmm. I very well might have to subscribe to the Saturday/Sunday Globe… I wonder if it can be sent to the DC area via snail mail? Does anyone know?

“I wonder if it can be sent to the DC area via snail mail?” Of course it can. All newspapers have a provision for mail subscriptions. However, most newspapers also have e-subscriptions nowadays, and it is very likely that you could receive this publication electronically.

Why is the date of the last show such a state secret? Trying to slip one by your devoted listeners? Come’on guys. Let us mourn, or celebrate, with dignity.

Was listening to the last 5 minutes of the show in the car this morning. The guys were talkng to the father of a listener who had confessed to running her dad’s car without oil in it. Sounded like a fun story so I logged into the site to listen to the rest of the show (and the beginning of the story…

I noted with interest that Click and Clack referrenced Felix Baumgartner - so at least part of the show is pretty current.

@LesMoore … here in the San Francisco area at least, the show broadcast Oct 21 matched the podcast call for call, and which also matched this website’s description summary of the calls. The final call (the one broadcast and the one on the podcast) is where Tom and Ray call David, but he doesn’t an…

While we all know that some or all of the calls now are from the archives, I’ve noticed a few other show components which suggest that C&C must be continuing in some fashion. First of all, at the end of the show when they announce that listeners can download a podcast, they give the number of the p…

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The first national show apparently was broadcast on October 31, 1987. That might be a clue anyway.

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