Some of you may know them as Tom and Ray Magliozzi. But to millions of automotive enthusiasts nationwide they are Click and Clack - the gregarious "Car Talk" brothers whose successful NPR radio franchise is going 2-D on PBS' "As the Wrench Turns."

Produced by Howard Grossman and premiering 8 p.m. ET Wednesday on your local PBS station, the show transforms Click and Clack to the world of animation as the famed Tappet brothers set out to fix cars, fend off disgruntled customers and seek out increasingly creative ways to goof off. The fictional Car Talk Plaza mimics their real-life garage at Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the starting point of the now-animated brothers' car-inspired whimsy.

"I hope that people look at it mercifully," Ray (Clack) told CNN, as brother Tom (Click) looked on, cigar-smoking and chortling gently. "There will be some chuckles and wry smiles."