“Today my mission is to hit it with steam, hit it with shampoo, hit it with alcohol and water,” said Larry Kosilla, Ammo’s 40-year-old founder. Splotches of mold covered the white vinyl seats, black carpet, armrest and dash.Īfter it was bought by a classic car dealer, the Le Mans was flat-bedded to a spotless, two-story garage in nearby Danbury that is the headquarters of Ammo NYC, which bills itself as “the first completely fussy car care company” and is known to its two million YouTube subscribers as the source to learn such auto esoterica as the “needle and syringe” method for touching up the paint on a Ruf Slantnose Porsche. Mice had crawled into the engine and burrowed into the cabin, leaving behind toxic urine and droppings.
Wood piled against the body had scratched the blue paint. The 1969 Pontiac Le Mans had been sitting in a garage in Greenwich, Conn., undriven and, by the look of it, untouched for two decades.
