Brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi will be hanging up their radio microphones in September after 35 years of giving car advice on the air.

The Magliozzis, commonly referred to as “Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers,” are the hosts of the popular car-advice call-in show “Car Talk,” broadcast on National Public Radio.

“Car Talk” first aired on Boston's NPR affiliate, WBUR, in 1977. In 1987, it was picked up for national broadcast. In 2002, NPR reported that the show was heard by more than 3.7 million people each week.

A press release from NPR and a post on the “Car Talk” staff blog indicated that the Magliozzis will retire in September, with no plans to return to the airwaves. The cartalk.com site will still remain active and updated, and the Magliozzis will continue to write their weekly “Dear Tom and Ray” column.

For those who still yearn to hear the Magliozzis' Boston accents and distinctive laughs on a Saturday morning, don't dismay. The past 25 years of “Car Talk” on NPR have produced more than 1,200 archived episodes that will be used to create “best of” episodes for rebroadcast after the production of new episodes ceases. Production and management will be handled by the current producers.

In addition, Charlie Kravetz, general manager of WBUR, told wbur.org that there are years' worth of material that have yet to be aired.

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