Downtown Globe Inc

No Pep-talk here; just a nice, grungy garage, a team of muy macho mechanics, and a station manager with an unstoppable sense of humor. (He should've been the next great Latino comic.) And they get the job done. I've been coming to them for years. If they don't get it right, they are always fair and square about it, and don't charge me to nail the problem. I am decidedly not interested in the inner workings of cars,so am admittedly vulnerable in this arena, but they take the time to explain what they did and why. And they don't try to cure alll of the ailments of an ageing car just to beef up the bill; they center on the problem at hand, fix it, and then tell me what else it would be wise or downright life-saving to take care of. I appreciate that, and the friendly attitude of the mechanics, and the manager's good humor. He seems to "get" the underlying anxiety of someone bringing a car in that they are not sure what is wrong with, (and wondering if it will cost half their paycheck to fix it!) I'm a regular for more than one reason. Let's face it: some mechanics are just opportunists and rip-off artists. These guys are blue collar mechanics without the bs.