A 1961 Buick on a 4x4 chassis and a 1960 Dodge Dart Seneca that Brian Smith worked on in the beginning of 2020 at the No Kill Car Shelter.The old Chevy Nomad is the first clue that the No Kill Car Shelter isn’t your average garage.
“It’s about keeping as many of these cars going as possible,” said Brian Smith, 42, founder of No Kill Car Shelter.The shop’s motto is “Keeping Old Iron Alive.” But it could just as easily be “saving old cars, getting greasy, and being weird,” said Sage Binder, 27, Smith’s partner at No Kill Car Shelter, who also runs the shop’s burgeoning social media accounts, a job in itself.
They loved the prospect of taking cars at the end of their roads and getting them running again — rusted finishes, patchy interiors, and all. Any parts they could salvage from a car, they did.