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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 —
Dec 08, 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 - WOMEN JUST LOVE THE MUSCLES
  • Sharon Sudol and John Russell, Senior Correspondents - VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT GT
  • Russ Rader Senior Vice President Insurance Institute for Highway Safety - MINOR CRASHES CAN RESULT IN BIG HEADLIGHT REPAIR BILLS
  • Robert Sinclair, AAA Northeast - MTA POCKETBOOK ISSUE
  • David Macholz, Academic Chair, Automotive Technology, Suffolk County Community College - TRAINING AND JOB OPPORTUNITIES FOR AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIANS

This Week’s Guest Automotive Experts

PHOTOHarold Bendell - Major World

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

PHOTOLibby DeMarco - Broadway Sunoco Station, Jersey City, New Jersey

PHOTORobert Erskine - Senior European Correspondent from Suffolk, England

PHOTOAudra Fordin - Great Bear Auto Repairs and Auto Body

PHOTODavid Goldsmith - Urban Classics

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; Bronx Community College

PHOTOJoanne Porcelli, Esq. - -

PHOTONick Prague - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Training Superintendent