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The Auto Lab — from The Consortium for Automotive Education
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The Auto Channel

The Auto Lab is an automotive broadcast series about the automotive industry, its history, and its culture, presenting the ideas of leading college faculty, authors, and automotive practitioners in a relaxed, conversational format.

New programs air Saturday mornings.

7 to 9 am on WNYM Radio AM 970


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Professor Harold Wolchok — Host of The AutoLab


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Show Archives

Listen to our archive of past shows going back to 1999.

Show Archives

Latest Available Show —
Mar 17, 2018

Use Windows Media Player (on Windows) or VLC media player (available on all platforms) to listen to our archived shows.

  • Robert Erskine, Senior European Correspondent, Suffolk England - ROADS? WHERE WE'RE GOING, WE DON'T NEED ROADS!
  • John Russell, Senior Correspondent - KIA RIO
  • Russ Rader, Senior Vice President, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - KIA OPTIMA JUMPS TO TOP SAFETY PICK+ AFTER PASSENGER-SIDE IMPROVEMENTS
  • Robert Sinclair, AAA NORTHEAST - NEW LAWS NEEDED TO CURB INJURY, DEATH TOLL OF UNBELTED REAR SEAT OCCUPANTS; AAA FOUNDATION IS ABOUT TO CELEBRATE 70 YEARS OF TRAFFIC SAFETY RESEARCH

This Week’s Guest Automotive Experts

PHOTOIvan Anderson - Brookdale Community College

PHOTOHarold Bendell - Major World

PHOTOTim Cacace - Master Mechanix Auto Body and Auto Repairs and the Consortium for Automotive Education

PHOTOJerry Pastore - D&J Diagnostic and The Consortium for Automotive Education

PHOTOJohanna Pastore - D&J Diagnostic Center

PHOTOMichael Porcelli - Central Avenue Info and I-Car

PHOTOJoanne Porcelli, Esq. - -

PHOTONick Prague - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Training Superintendent and Rockland Community College, SUNY