Car Talk
Saturdays at 10 a.m. on 90.5 WKAR
Saturdays at Noon and Sundays at 3 p.m. on AM/870
Magliozzi Brothers Honored with Their "Own" Guitar
They’ve had a hit national radio show for 20 years. This summer, an animated version of what they call their “lousy” radio show that debuted on PBS stations across the country.
Now, are you ready for their next claim to fame?
This summer, the C.F. Martin Guitar Company is introducing this summer a Car Talk Click & Clack Special Edition guitar that captures the duo’s sense of fun and pickin’.
The Martin Company, just for the record, wants everyone to know that they aren’t creating a Car Talk guitar because the brothers are famous, have a radio show, and a television show. It’s because Tom and Ray Magliozzi are as serious about their music as they are about their cars!
The Magliozzi’s became hooked on playing acoustic guitar in the 1970s and soon formed a bluegrass band. Tom played stand-up bass and gave the guitar spot to younger brother and lead singer “High and Lonesome” Ray. The band days are a distant memory but both brothers still own Martin Guitars and occasionally play a bluegrass night at local Cambridge clubs.
The boys have also joined an elite group of musicians that the Martin Company has honored by creating guitars bearing their names and available for purchase to the public. A few members of this very exclusive club include: Gene Autry, Joan Baez, Dave Bromberg, Jimmy Buffet, Eric Clapton, David Crosby, Andy Griffith, Woody and Arlo Guthrie, Elvis Presley, and Hank Williams, Sr.
The Martin Car Talk guitar boasts a classic Dreadnought featuring solid tonewoods, an Englemann sprucetop, scalloped braces, and East Indian rosewood back and sides – but that’s not all! The guitar also has an ebony head plate with a cartoon of the brothers in a dilapidated jalopy and an ebony fret board with its position markers being the parts and tools that trail the duo in their wake! Their signature on the 20th fret.
Wait, there’s more! The tuning gears have car-shaped buttons and the pick guard is printed with Car Talk credits. The list price is $6,499.
For information about the Martin Car Talk guitar contact your favorite local guitar dealer.
Car Talk is aired on 90.5 WKAR on Saturday at 10 a.m., and on WKAR/AM 870 on Saturday at 12 p.m. and on Sunday at 3 p.m. Click and Clack's As the Wrench Turns can be seen Saturday nights at 11 p.m. on WKAR-23.
published: July 22, 2008
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