Car Talk refers to the work of Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, that includes a website, and a podcast of reruns that is currently hosted by Apple Podcasts, NPR Podcasts, and Sticher. Car Talk was originally a radio show that ran on National Public Radio (NPR) from 1977 until October 2012, when the Magliozzi brothers retired. Tom died on November 3, 2014, aged 77, in Belmont, Massachusetts, of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
The name of the DC&H corporate offices is visible on the third floor window above the corner of Brattle and JFK Streets, in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
A tappet is a valve train component which converts rotating motion into linear motion in activating a valve. It is most commonly found in internal combustion engines, which converts the rotating motion of the camshaft into linear motion of intake and exhaust valves, either directly or indirectly.
Beam engine with tappet block on the vertical plug rod. The tappet block acts on the curved horn beneath it.
Hydraulic tappets (along with rockers, valves and cylinder head) for a 1980-1985 Ford CVH engine
Diagram of a sidevalve engine
DOHC engine with a bucket tappet
