I'm writing this review to promote a local business in Parma that I have frequented several times in my 31-year tenure in Parma. I've watched this business grow and prosper from a small corner Pennzoil station to the terrific repair shop that is Autoworks.
Back in the Pennzoil days, they used to sell gasoline and they did some auto repair work. A man named Sam Maletti owned the land and the buildings on this street corner, the corner of Wilber Avenue and Ridge Road - my street corner.
Thinking back, I used to ride my bike up and down the street and I would turn around in the Pennzoil gasoline station's lot. Unfortunately for them, they had two of those compressed air rubber hoses that would ring a bell inside the station each time a vehicle (or an annoying menace of a kid on a bike) would drive over them. This ring would inform the gas station attendant that a customer was in the lot and required service. I must have ridden my bike over the rubber hose 100 times. And I didn't just ride over it, I would pop a small wheelie and SLAM my front tire on the hose, just so I could here the distant DING inside the station. By the way, this worked after hours as well. What fun!
At some point, a man named Tim Carl purchased the Pennzoil station, tore it down and built Autoworks. He also bought the row of buildings adjacent to Autoworks along Ridge Rd, which includes North Coast Nostalgia.
Soon after, I became friends with Tim and soon after that, I bought my first car. Well, wouldn't ya know it, my first car had the wrong alternator on it. After the loser I purchased it from had 'his guy' replace the alternator with another wrong alternator, and I experienced another broken alternator belt and dead battery, I turned to my new buddy Tim. Tim said, "Rodney, this car has the wrong alternator on it. It's going to cost you $400 dollars, but I can guarantee you, we'll fix it right and it will run like new." Well, old Tim wasn't lying. I paid the man and he fixed my car and it ran fine for years. He earned my trust. He's my go-to guy when I need car repairs or a quick vehicle inspection.
They're not cheap, but they get the work done right the first time.
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