Ed Wallace, who regaled radio listeners, TV viewers and newspaper readers with stories the auto industry, died Sunday at his Fort Worth home. He was 72.
Elizabeth Campbell of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram writes, “‘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.
Read more here. He won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2001 for “The 100 Greatest Events in the History of the Automotive Industry.”
