About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At Summer Grove Auto Care, something peculiar started happening one foggy morning. As a delivery driver pulled up with parts for repairs, he heard an eerie voice over the intercom: 'Your engine is humming like a honeybee on a summer day.' Curious, the delivery driver looked around but saw no one. The voice continued softly, ‘Just bring those spark plugs, won’t you?’ A nearby mechanic laughed and said, “That’s just old Mr. Jenkins next door—he loves pranking us.” And indeed, from then on, whenever someone needed help, they’d hear, “Your brakes squeak like a kid on a swing!”}
2. At Summer Grove Auto Care, something odd began occurring early one autumn afternoon. A delivery driver pulled up with a crate of spark plugs and noticed an unusual glow coming from beneath the hood of the truck he’d just serviced. Curious, the delivery driver peered under the hood and saw nothing but a faint blue light dancing around the engine. Soon, other mechanics started noticing it too—even the owner’s wife, who happened to drive past on her way home. Turned out it was just an old battery that had been sitting too long. The next day, everyone at Summer Grove Auto Care got free coffee and a funny story to tell their grandkids.
3. At Summer Grove Auto Care, one day an old toolbox appeared on the service bay floor. No one claimed it, but every time someone mentioned their car had strange noises, the toolbox mysteriously vanished—only to reappear later when everything was fixed. One day, a delivery driver complained that his truck sounded like a swarm of bees. The toolbox disappeared again and returned after the job was done—with a note inside reading, ‘Buzz off, problems solved!’
4. At Summer Grove Auto Care, one day an old toolbox mysteriously appeared in the parking lot, left behind with no note or owner in sight. A few days later, a delivery driver found an old wrench inside—a note scribbled on it read: ‘Thanks for fixing my memory!’ Turned out, it was from a regular who’d always forget his tools. Now, whenever someone loses something, they just say, ‘Must be at Summer Grove Auto Care.’