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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 —
Feb 16, 2019

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 - WE'LL FIGHT THEM ON BEACHES—UK'S EXIT FROM EUROPE
  • John Russell and Sharon Sudol, Senior Correspondents - VOLKSWAGEN GOLF SE; Russ Rader, Senior Vice President, Insurance for Highway Safety; 2019 KIA RIO TOP SAFETY PICK
  • Miguel Sierra, Automotive Instructor, Thomas Edison High School - WINNING TEAM, NEW YORK STATE FINALS OF THE NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION

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

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