Did you ever listen to the weekly broadcast of Car Talk on NPR — it’s been on since 1977. Let me tell you it is often crazy funny. The hosts are brothers Tom, 74, and Ray Magliozzi, 63 — also known as Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, according to Wikipedia. Last week, the Magliozzis announced they would stop producing new episodes in September 2012. Read their bios here.

I recalled the call-in I heard earlier this year that I thought had to be a joke, but it wasn’t. A caller discussed cooking food — enchiladas — under the hood. Here’s a link to the transcript. Talk turned to a lot of menu items you could cook on the engine. One of the comments suggested it takes about 100 to 150 miles to cook a meatloaf. Tom and Ray also recommended “Manifold Destiny,” by Chris Maynard and Bill Scheller, a book that offers a lot of recipes to cook under the hood, and it was first published in 1989. It is still going strong with the latest 2008 version on sale.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi are retiring, but their episodes will live on in podcasts, transcripts and cookbook mentions.