title: Car Talk 2012 Daily Calendar: 365 Days of Tips, Jokes, and Puzzlers from America's Funniest Car Mechanics
author: Tom Magliozzi
description: Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the Peabody Award-winning hosts of Car Talk on NPR, are better known as 'Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers,' taking their names from the clickety-clack sound made by aging autos. Graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the brothers opened a do-it-yourself garage in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1973. It later turned into the 'Good News Garage,' a conventional car repair service. In 1977, Tom and Ray were given their own weekly program on NPR member station WBUR in Boston. Car Talk soon attracted a large local following, and on October 31, 1987, the show premiered as a national program on NPR. Car Talk is heard by more than 4.3 million listeners each week on 600 public radio stations.
zlib_text: Parker brought the car around at seven; George was going to meet the dinner
  guests at the station. Sarah said incredulously, "They're coming up by train?"
  
  "Buddy Calucci broke his wrist last week and can't drive," George said, "and
  his wife has some kind of phobia about it. And the alien of course can't drive
  either."
  
  Of course. Of course not. Couldn't drive, couldn't wear pants, probably
  couldn't eat anything Sarah had had Cook prepare for dinner either. All the
  alien could do was put her poor old George's firm out of business with its
  strange advanced fuel products, whatever they were. Sarah stood before the
  fireplace and regarded her husband as he picked up his coat from a leather
  chair.
  
  "If it's supposed to be such a discreet meeting that you can't have it in the
  city, why are they taking the train? Why didn't your Mr. Calucci order a car
  and driver?"
  
  "I don't think it would occur to him."
  
  "This is going to be horrible, George. It really is. I'd just as soon have
  Parker and Co