They are true humanitarians with a passion for people and used their love of cars to speak with people of all ilks showing the common thread of mankind and I’m so glad there are podcasts and RUclips to keep their legacy going
What a nice thing to do, to recognize properly Tom and Ray’s work on NPR and their contribution to the world of Cars. I love to listen to them, even now that the show is no longer. Thanks for posting this !
I still listen to the CT podcasts often as I’m on the road as a trucker. I can hear the same things repeatedly and still die laughing. They are truly a treasure.
To me they are and always will be a natural treasure. Who else in the word can sove all the worlds trouble from love to cars. They always had the right answer and how do you pick a good auto tech by the size of his boat. After years of listing to them one morning I was honor as ray started the show with a story and it was from when I was a very new Tech, working in a shop were the Grease on the floor had much more Exp than I did and its hard to believe It made the list of stores ray would pick and I was honor, They never knew me, and I never called them and to this day I still love them like family. The short of the story was The customer had his car in the shop for the 2 or 3 time The customer was not going off like a craze customer as his car trouble was real The auto techs had gone oner every inch of the car and could find any trouble Ever one was standing around and trying to understand what the trouble was, Nothing made sense and this was a shop full of real guys who knew cars from A to Z. I spoke up and ask the customer a question like a new lawyer who just pass the bar and you could have heard a pin drop as ever ideal they had did not make sense and was quickly dismissed Did you just put new tires on the car The customer said Yes Then I ask the customer another question and he said yes Did you buy the tires from the shop just down the street The shop was as quite as church Then I said? they leave their tires out in the rain It all came together, and everyone knew what the trouble was and why If you wish to know more as Paul Harve would say you will have to listen to car talk and hopeful find the story as Ray had a Gift of words and a master storyteller and I don't think he ever let anyone down Thanks for posting
They were also in Cars 1 in 2006. It was a wink to all the dads watching in the theater. They got it down to their safe travels phrase was their radio show sign off catch phrase "Don't drive like my brother" Tom died in 2014. In Cars 3 (2017) what few lines Tom's car had were recycled/sampled from Cars 1 recordings and outtakes and banter between takes. (With limited audio source material, writers had to factor in what lines could be worked with with voice actors talking to canned audio)
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I’m 30 now been listening to him since I was like 22 and I love them. I listen to them on the podcast The Best of Car Talk.
They are true humanitarians with a passion for people and used their love of cars to speak with people of all ilks showing the common thread of mankind and I’m so glad there are podcasts and RUclips to keep their legacy going
They were truly the best. Miss them and the show. Thank you for including them in the Hall of Fame.
What a nice thing to do, to recognize properly Tom and Ray’s work on NPR and their contribution to the world of Cars. I love to listen to them, even now that the show is no longer. Thanks for posting this !
good memories!
I still listen to the CT podcasts often as I’m on the road as a trucker. I can hear the same things repeatedly and still die laughing. They are truly a treasure.
To me they are and always will be a natural treasure.
Who else in the word can sove all the worlds trouble from love to cars. They always had the right answer and how do you pick a good auto tech by the size of his boat.
After years of listing to them one morning I was honor as ray started the show with a story and it was from when I was a very new Tech, working in a shop were the Grease on the floor had much more Exp than I did
and its hard to believe It made the list of stores ray would pick and I was honor,
They never knew me, and I never called them and to this day I still love them like family.
The short of the story was
The customer had his car in the shop for the 2 or 3 time
The customer was not going off like a craze customer as his car trouble was real
The auto techs had gone oner every inch of the car and could find any trouble
Ever one was standing around and trying to understand what the trouble was, Nothing made sense and this was a shop full of real guys who knew cars from A to Z.
I spoke up and ask the customer a question like a new lawyer who just pass the bar and you could have heard a pin drop as ever ideal they had did not make sense and was quickly dismissed
Did you just put new tires on the car
The customer said Yes
Then I ask the customer another question and he said yes
Did you buy the tires from the shop just down the street
The shop was as quite as church
Then I said? they leave their tires out in the rain
It all came together, and everyone knew what the trouble was and why
If you wish to know more as Paul Harve would say you will have to listen to car talk and hopeful find the story as Ray had a Gift of words and a master storyteller and I don't think he ever let anyone down
Thanks for posting
They were the voices behind rusty and dusty in cars 3.....I love car talk
They were also in Cars 1 in 2006. It was a wink to all the dads watching in the theater. They got it down to their safe travels phrase was their radio show sign off catch phrase "Don't drive like my brother"
Tom died in 2014.
In Cars 3 (2017) what few lines Tom's car had were recycled/sampled from Cars 1 recordings and outtakes and banter between takes. (With limited audio source material, writers had to factor in what lines could be worked with with voice actors talking to canned audio)
Thank you🙏 1.10.2021
I miss them on NPR
The only show on NPR ever worth listening to, EVER!