Tom and Ray both appeared in the Pixar films Cars (2006) and Cars 3 (2017). Ray continued to write the column, retitled Car Talk, after his brother's death in 2014, knowing he would have wanted the advice and humor to continue. In 1989, the brothers started a newspaper column Click and Clack Talk Cars which, like the radio show, mixed serious advice with humor. In 1999, the brothers returned to MIT to deliver a joint commencement speech to the graduates. In addition to the radio show, Tom wrote for and ran his own consulting business. Harvard Square offices of "Dewey, Cheetham and Howe", headquarters of Car Talk After being a professor for eight years, he decided he disliked teaching and quit. Tom believed college professors did not make much money without working other jobs, and that drove him to spend nine years working while getting his doctorate in Marketing from Boston University School of Management. In addition to the local radio show, Tom worked a day or two each week at the Technology Consulting Group run by a former MIT classmate in Boston, and he still taught at local universities. Subsequently, the brothers converted the shop into a standard auto-repair shop named the Good News Garage. Nevertheless, the two enjoyed the experience and were invited in 1977 to be part of a panel of automotive experts on Boston's National Public Radio affiliate WBUR-FM. The shop rented space and equipment to people who were trying to fix their own cars, but it was not profitable. He and Tom then opened a do-it-yourself repair shop named Hacker's Haven. Ray taught science in Bennington, Vermont, for a few years before returning to Cambridge in 1973. He grew tired of his job and quit, spending the next year doing odd jobs such as painting for other tenants in his apartment building.
He worked for Sylvania's Semiconductor Division in Woburn, Massachusetts and then for the Foxboro Company while earning his MBA from Northeastern University and teaching part-time at local universities. Tom earned a degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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