Little Transmissions

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, a delivery driver noticed an old, dusty cassette tape protruding from under the hood of a parked car. Curious, he picked it up and found it played a single message over and over: 'Your transmission is talking.' Intrigued, the delivery driver popped open the car’s transmission bay and found nothing but an empty space where gears should be. He shrugged, replaced the tape, and drove off. A week later, while fixing another car, he heard a faint humming behind him. Turning around, he saw the same neighbor smiling and saying, ‘Hey, your transmission just said hello.’

2. One day, as mechanics worked late into the night, a strange voice crackled over the intercom: ‘If your car needs fixing, leave it here—we’ll fix it right.’ The next morning, every fixed vehicle had a note: “Thank you for trusting Little Transmissions.” Soon enough, word spread around town. A regular dropped off his old clunker one evening and came back to find it transformed into a vintage classic. A delivery driver left a truck with a busted transmission and picked up a gleaming new engine. Even a neighbor’s lawnmower returned from its visit sounding like a Formula One racecar. But the funniest story was when someone brought in their pet hamster’s wheel—it came out humming an old folk tune.

3. One afternoon, while a little boy played nearby, the mechanic heard a faint humming coming from inside the garage. Curious, he walked closer and saw a tiny bluebird perched on top of a toolbox, chirping along with something unseen. The mechanic smiled, thinking it was just the bird’s way of helping out. He picked up his tools and joined in the song, humming along as if it were some secret tune only birds and mechanics understood. The next day, when another customer—a delivery driver—asked what that strange noise was, everyone burst into laughter, realizing it had been nothing more than a little bluebird serenading them all.

4. One weekend, a curious neighbor asked the mechanics at Little Transmissions if they ever heard strange noises coming from the old radio in the corner. The next day, everyone gathered around when the radio started playing their favorite songs without anyone touching it. Soon enough, every time someone brought in their car for repairs, the radio would start blasting classic rock hits. It became such a hit that even the local delivery driver stopped by just to listen. One evening, as everyone was laughing and dancing to Led Zeppelin, the owner finally admitted: 'I never fixed that radio—we’ve been borrowing music from the cars!'