M & T Auto Body

My trucks take a beating, spending four seasons traversing the mean streets and bucolic country lanes of north-​east Ohio, and it shows. So? Sure, I could buy twenty cans of spray paint…
Or! The good folks of M & T Auto Body could work their magic. Located just a few paces south of Hinckley’s Financial District, M & T is one of those bedrock local places, one of the stronger threads in the fabric of their community. That love of place is reflected in their consistent high quality of work. My first experience was with a work van that was starting to look like a science fair project: «The Ravages of Road Salt.» They got it looking shiny and new in no time for about half what I was quoted elsewhere.
Just last week, I was able to have them replace a rather tricky system on a German engine with mileage nearly equal to a round-​trip to the Moon. Did they run away, screaming? Did they laugh and point? Did they quote me four times the actual cost of the repairs, as another shop did? Naah. They did the job.
Hats off to John and the lads of M & T Auto Body. I’m pretty sure they didn’t even laugh when I rode my bicycle over to pick up the truck. At least until I was gone.
«To pass over youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day may be old. For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession.»
– William Congreve