City Tints

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, a delivery driver pulled up to City Tints and asked, ‘Hey, why do you always have these old tires lying around?’ The mechanic smiled and replied, 'Oh, those are our time capsules—we keep them for nostalgia.' The delivery driver looked puzzled but shrugged it off. A few days later, he returned with a box of old tires and said, 'Here’s your new batch!' The mechanic laughed and shook his head, knowing that some things just never change.

2. A neighborhood kid was pedaling past City Tints one afternoon when he noticed something odd. The mechanic's dog, usually asleep under the shade tree, was standing on its hind legs and staring intently at the open garage door. Just then, a delivery driver walked out, whistling a tune, completely oblivious to the canine spectacle. The dog abruptly sat down, yawned, stretched, and went back to sleep. The kid shook his head, shrugged, and rode off, muttering something about strange dogs in mechanics’ shops. Nobody ever explained what that meant.

3. One night, a delivery driver pulled into City Tints for an oil change. As he waited, he heard a strange humming sound coming from inside the shop. Curious, he peered through the window and saw an old mechanic whistling a tune while working on a car engine. The driver leaned closer, only to realize that the song seemed familiar—was it possibly the theme from an old TV show? The more he listened, the more convinced he was—it had to be ‘The Mechanic’, an old favorite from his childhood. Smiling, he turned away, deciding not to disturb the old man’s serene world of music and grease. Later, when telling his friends about it, they laughed so hard they spilled their coffee—apparently, everyone in town knew that old Mr. Jenkins always sang along to whatever came on his radio.

4. One day, a delivery driver pulled into City Tints and announced, 'I bet you can fix anything here!' The mechanic just smiled and nodded. The mechanic looked up from his workbench with a twinkle in his eye. ‘Watch this,’ he said, pressing a few buttons on the diagnostics screen. Suddenly, the truck’s engine purred like a contented cat. The delivery driver whistled in surprise, while a nearby neighbor shook his head and muttered, ‘Not another one…’