Monday, March 21, 2011

Come in. Eat our sweet fruits. Drink our fine coffee. Please.


There is fruit on our front counter now. Please take a piece of fruit. Perhaps it's morning and you've skimped on breakfast because you needed to bring your car into the shop. Perhaps you just like apples.

For any old reason, please take a piece of fruit. We selected the container carefully. Not too girly. Not too mechanicy. A good, clean container that has never held anything but fruit.




If not the fruit, then try the coffee. On some days it's as good as any. On others, its still better than most. No flavoured water here.





There are four mugs just waiting to be used. We've got to-go cups too, but don't use those. Think of our earth and stay here and drink coffee and listen to the rain on our awning and watch people go by on 4th and Pine.

We don't have milk though, sorry. We like coffee better black, but we don't have milk because milk goes bad and nobody drinks our coffee but us.

So far.

It may be a case of the chicken before the egg, so if you would have drank coffee but haven't because we don't have milk, please tell us. Then we'll buy milk.

Why the plea you ask? Well, for whatever reason we got pretty excited about having fresh fruit and good coffee, so we restored a nice old tool cart to put the coffee carafe on, and we bought the appropriate fruit container, and nearly nobody has partaken, and thats a bit of a let down.

Also, I want one of these:



And if you good people don't drink our coffee, it's hard to justify it.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

They can't all be German

We specialize in Volkswagen and Audi, but we work on all sorts around here. Asian cars. German cars. The occasional British car even sneaks in.

Ahem...yeah, we screen the Brits pretty carefully.

This week, we've got a Maserati, and not just any Maserati. No roachy 80's Bi-turbo. No sketchy Ghibli with strange electrics and finicky carbs. No, this one is actually quite sweet.

A 2006 Gransport.

We can't agree if it's fully pretty. It's nice. It turns heads, and it sure looks good out front, but it's a bit portly in the haunches, it's got a body kit (factory mind you), and it's silver...not really a sports car colour. So maybe not pretty, but its still really hot. Or hawt, if you're modern.


In any case, it is very, very cool. It's cool to look at. It's cool to sit in. It's fun to work on.




And there's one more thing:



What an engine. Gorgeous. Makes us blush. And she's not just a looker. Ferrari built it. Maserati popped their badge on it. Yep, at least to us, the prettiest part of this car is under the hood.

I can't even tell you what 400 Italian horsepower sounds like echoing around our shop.

Here's what Top Gear thinks: