Friday, March 13, 2009

Autobody shop

File this under strange observations:

I drove past an independent repair shop the other day and noticed that the parking lot was full of snow covered cars. This got me thinking that at every repair shop I've ever been to, or driven past, there are always the requisite broken, snow-covered cars in the lot.

Which makes me wonder:

1) Do autobody shops have a distributer, similar to restaurants, that supplies them with broken cars so that it looks like they have lots of work?
2) Who are the people who take their cars to the shop, but don't actually get them worked on for months? Did they max out the credit card on the towing charges?
3) Maybe it's the shop owner who buys smashed cars in hopes of restoring them when he has free time

1 comment:

Colleen said...

Option 4 - we took the car in to be fixed, it's a 1991 (a little on the old side), and was going to be $800 or $1000 to fix it. And, some big things like the SPEEDOMETER are still broken! I told Mike, just leave it there, let's buy something new.