No New Advice From Click and Clack

Tom and Ray Magliozzi who dub themselves Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers plan to record the last new episode of National Public Radio's irreverent Car Talk at the end of September.

The raucous duo, who dispense car repair advice, jokes and brain-twisters to callers, began their show began on Boston's WBUR radio station in 1977. The program has aired nationwide for 25 years, averaging about 3.3 million listeners per week.

The brothers started a do-it-yourself auto repair shop in Cambridge, Mass., in the early 1970s that eventually became the Good News Garage. Despite their blue-collar demeanor, both are graduates of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Tom Magliozzi earned a doctorate and became a technology consultant and college professor.

NPR says it will continue to broadcast Car Talk in the form of programs assembled from the best material in the more than 1,200 programs in the show's archives.