{"id":105078,"date":"2025-12-30T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105078\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:47:10","slug":"former-fox-4-car-critic-ed-wallace-dies-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/105078\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FOX 4 car critic Ed Wallace dies at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ffks5kf1gdng09y0.jpg\" alt=\"Thanks for the ride! Ed Wallace says goodbye to FOX 4\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Car critic Ed Wallace, a longtime friend of Good Day, has died.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What&#8217;s new:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Ed died on Sunday at his home in Fort Worth. He was 72.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">His cause of death is not known.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/p_ed-wallace-kia-ev6_kdfw2162_146_mxf_00.00.57.28.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Every Friday morning for years, Ed would give his review of the newest cars and trucks on Good Day.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">He also had a column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and hosted a Saturday morning radio show called &#8220;Wheels with Ed Wallace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">It was a job he loved and was dedicated to for nearly 30 years, until his retirement in 2022.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">FOX 4 would like to send its condolences to Ed\u2019s family, including his wife, Judi Smith, who also retired from FOX 4 about 13 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from Ed Wallace&#8217;s family and co-workers on Good Day.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/good-day\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good Day<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/auto\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cars and Trucks<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; Car critic Ed Wallace, a longtime friend of Good Day, has died. What&#8217;s new: Ed died&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[13870,102,104,103,19425,242,223],"class_list":["post-105078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-auto","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-good-day","tag-lifestyle","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}