Waterfront Automobile

If you are looking for a place to purchase, repair, inspect (pip), or just to come by and visit and have a good chat with a very knowledgeable Ferrari Dr give Sal Garcia a call to make an appointment. I have bought and sold Ferraris using Sal’s knowledge and connections to the Ferrari community and have had great experiences every time. Bella Ferrari!

Sal is great! I work around the corner from this place, so pass by almost everyday. My relationship with Sal started with just friendly «hellos» but now whenever my car has trouble I take it here. Going here is like being a part of the family. I trust them, and I also trust them to take good care of my car, even when the San Francisco streets don’t.

Tonight my car broke down. Well, it didn’t exactly break down but it wouldn’t start. Which is really a bummer because I have an interview in Emeryville tomorrow morning. The closest spot to initially put my car was also, unfortunately, on the side that would get a ticket due to street cleaning. I really didn’t know what to do. So, I got the help of my boyfriend and his roommate to push my car down a hill to get it going enough to get the baby started enough to get it in front of this car body shop in my neighborhood.
Mike and I find a spot that is free to park for the evening and figure we are going to leave it there for the night and probably the day and just call the place the next morning.
But I had known this particular shop and I had worked with this one guy: Sal Garcia and knew that he might be the person whose light was shining from within the body shop. You see, Sal works on Ferrari’s. He isn’t trained to work on Saturn’s. But sure enough, I said hello from beneath a mostly closed garage door and he answered and came out.
He recognized me and agreed to look at my car. You have to realize that this is 10:30 at night and he had already worked a long day! He helped me think of some of the things that might be going wrong with my saturn and set me up with a series of notes for Paolo for the next morning.
It gets even better and more generous on his part! I had mentioned that I had an interview tomorrow morning in Emeryville and he starts to think… his friend Jeff was going to be going to Emeryville tomorrow morning and it was possible that the two of us could share a ride. Wow! That might work out. He called poor Jeff at home who was eating dinner and chatted with him. Jeff said that I should call him tomorrow morning and that perhaps we could coordinate rides.
I was amazed. I barely knew Sal and he was going out of his way to help me and now this guy I completely didn’t know was offering to help get me to my interview tomorrow morning!
Sal asked that I park the car just outside and hand him the key. When I came back he asked me (like a nice father) if I had locked the car and if I had left anything I needed in it. He also reminded me of all the calls I needed to make tomorrow (to Paolo, Jeff, the place I would be interviewing… etc).
I recommend this place so highly just based on this one experience. If I had a Ferrari I would always go here with it. Sal takes so much pride in his work and is the kind of person that you truly just want to have in your community.

If you own a Ferrari and your stallion is in need of repair, Waterfront Automobili is the place to stable it. Sal Garcia and Sheldon Lew know Ferrari’s inside and out, as you would expect of any reputable Italian car mechanic, but it’s their passion for these beautiful machines that sets them apart from so many other shops out there. This is a relationship driven shop where you’re likely to forge alliances with other proud owners and learn of the latest events in the car-​guy industry. We’ve never had any issues with the quality of their workmanship and always refer as many people as we can. When you leave Waterfront Automobili, your bella machina will sparkle and purr.