Former DFW radio and TV car critic Ed Wallace dies at 72

[Liberal In Texas]

Kind of sad. I worked with him for several years, didn't know him well but could tell he was a really nice guy. And sobering when younger people than me pass on.

Ed Wallace, who regaled radio listeners, TV viewers and newspaper readers with stories and advice about cars, died Sunday at his Fort Worth home. He was 72. “Ed was the most intelligent man I ever knew,” said his wife, Judi Smith*. “There was a challenge of lifting me up to be a better person.” Smith described her husband as a “voracious reader” who was curious about everything.

Wallace wrote almost 1,000 columns for the Star-Telegram about the auto industry and on topics such as the Middle East. He wrote his final column for the Star-Telegram on Feb. 12, 2021. He also hosted a five-hour radio show on KLIF every Saturday called “Wheels with Ed Wallace,” and he was the car and truck critic for the Fox 4 morning show, “Good Day” until he retired in 2022.

Wallace was born in Riverside, California, on May 4, 1953. Smith said Wallace was a “military brat” whose father was an Air Force pilot. His parents wanted to retire in Fort Worth, she said. Wallace graduated from Arlington Heights High School but never went to college. “He was too smart for college,” Smith said. Smith said her husband sold cars, had a stint on the “Dating Game” and played in a rock band called Santa Fe before his journalism career.
Wallace is a recipient of the Gerald R. Loeb Award for business journalism, bestowed by the Anderson School of Business at UCLA.

*I suspect this is a typo, I knew her as Judi White for over 20 years.

Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/obituaries/article314057736.html#storylink=cpy

He did his radio and TV shows on stations that one would consider "conservative" be he was quite progressive.