Top Auto

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At dawn, when Top Auto’s garage doors usually hummed open, they began to rattle and bang like thunder. A regular noticed first, pulling in for his morning oil change. A delivery driver, rushing to meet a deadline, looked up just in time to see a mechanic waving frantically from above. ‘Your engine’s singing!’ he yelled down. The driver grinned sheepishly, realizing it was only the radio cranked to full blast. At noon, everything returned to normal—except for the occasional tune playing from under the hood.

2. One morning, as a regular pulled up in his old truck, he noticed something odd—his headlights seemed brighter than usual, almost like they were laughing at him. As he squinted into the glare, another customer—a delivery driver—walked out and said, ‘Hey, your lights are on fire!’ Turns out, Top Auto had installed LED bulbs so bright that they looked like flames. The regular laughed it off, knowing now why everyone called him ‘Mr. Bright Eyes.’

3. At midnight, when Top Auto's neon sign should've been off, it flickered on again. A delivery driver pulled up late at night and saw the glowing sign. Thinking it was a prank, he drove around the block only to see the same neon light following him. Turns out, someone had accidentally left the power switched to ‘always on.’ The next morning, everyone in town knew why Top Auto’s mechanic smiled so broadly—because his shop stayed open all night for free advertising.

4. In the early hours of every Sunday, a delivery driver arrived at Top Auto with a mysterious package. The boxes always carried the same label: ‘For the Mechanic Who Knows Best.’ One Sunday morning, after delivering his secret package, the delivery driver overheard an old mechanic whispering to himself, ‘Finally, something worth my time!’ Turned out, it was just a box of donuts. The neighbor down the street later joked, ‘Guess he finally found someone who knows best—about breakfast!’