"Click and Clack" Turning in the Keys to Car Talk

Sad news broke Friday for fans of logic puzzles, confessional phone calls and the longest list of fake credits on any production staff.

The Los Angeles Times reports that "Car Talk," the most popular show on National Public Radio, is headed for the garage.

After 25 years, Tom Magliozzi, 74, and his brother Ray, 63, are going to let their body of work stand for itself. The show will continue to air in reruns, but the pair will not produce any new episodes after September.

The pair parlayed an encyclopedia knowledge of automotive issues with sympathetic ears, relentless cheer and shameless puns. A transcript-style retirement blog on the Car Talk website bore their trademark dismissiveness (its title: "Time to Get Lazier"), but assured listeners that the pair would continue to blog weekly.

Ten pages of pleading comments and listener reminiscences follow.

"Car Talk" was first broadcast on WBUR in Boston in 1977, and is now the most popular program on NPR. The show is heard locally at 10 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday on WHYY, 90.9 FM.