I first heard Car Talk in the fall of 1989. My husband and I were living in Northern Virginia and our daughter had been born on September 11th. We wanted to bring her to Charlotte to meet her grandparents but our trip was delayed some because Hurricane Hugo hit on September 22 that year. We waited until three weeks after Hugo to come to Charlotte. We were nervous taking our newborn on her first long car trip. Not long after we passed through Charlottesville, in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, we began searching for a radio station and discovered two jolly men talking about cars. They were very entertaining and we even learned a few things listening to them. For the next couple of years, this is how we kept encountering Car Talk, mostly by happenstance. It wasn’t till years later, after we’d moved back to Charlotte, that we were able to learn who Click and Clack were and listen to them on a regular basis. By the way, we made it to Charlotte in 1989 and it looked like it had been bombed! And that newborn infant is now a 28-year-old woman. I’m sad to see Car Talk leave the air and will miss it a lot.

Elaine M.