Automotive in Fort Leonard Wood

While traveling from place to place in the bright-yellow Jay’s Dee-Lux Taters food truck, cooks fry up hand-battered tenderloins, wings, and fresh-cut fries. The mobile eatery’s signature dish, Jay’s Dee-Lux Tater, challenges mouths with a mammoth amalgamation of battered and fried potato wedges sprinkled with cheese, chopped scallions, and other toppings. The food truck also doles out daily specials that change every day of the week except for Opposite Day; the specialties include homemade meatloaf, hand-battered fish ‘n’ chips, and tacos served with rice and beans.

Whether it's Mother Nature's wrath or an accidental fender-bender, damaged car exteriors are in good hands with FreeHailEstimate.com's technicians. The team can even come to their customers with their mobile catastrophe unit, a solution especially ideal for an auto with severe damage or sales lots with thousands of marred cars. Instead of hauling around replacement auto-body panels and a spectrum of paint colors, FreeHailEstimate.com’s mobile repairmen use a simple set of tools that massage dents out from inside the vehicle. The method, which they also use at their onsite garages, is called paintless dent removal (PDR). It’s generally quicker and less costly than other forms of repair, and after a free estimate, clients often can get work completed in one day. The team works with insurance companies and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee on work that’s warrantied for as long as you own the car.

Licensed and insured chauffeurs endure a stringent training and screening process before manning Ozarks Limo's fleet of town cars, passenger vans, party buses, and luxury stretch limos. Some of these vehicles are designed for partying—they feature elegant bars and plush furnishings that reflect the glow of neon lights, as well as sound systems powered by the love of rock 'n' roll. Others are meant for transporting passengers to and from the airport, or ensuring that clients get to their proms, weddings, and graduations. And if you've got a business function coming up, the chauffeurs can handle that, too, arriving promptly to ferry everyone from Point A to Point B.

Blue Stream Lube & Oil & Auto Service has been tending to vehicles for more than 20 years. In addition to oil changes and factory-scheduled maintenance, the trained technicians service transmissions, replace batteries, and perform state inspections. They offer free pickup and delivery services and shuttles as well as rentals for motorists whose cars require extended service.

The Alli's Family Restaurant building has been refilling tanks along Historic Route 66 for 80 years. It began as a gas station, but then took on the mantle of restaurant and has never looked back or at the sun. The eatery's Facebook page contains sneak peeks from the full menu and includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes. Chicken-fried chicken and its menu companions are hearty enough to sustain patrons on road trips, whether their road trips are from Chicago to LA or the result of a stick in the middle of the highway.

Shane’s Tire & Auto Service, an ASE-certified automotive facility, offers a full docket of maintenance and repair services. Here, technicians use their mechanical know-how to diagnose car problems, repair brakes, transmissions, and engines, and perform official vehicle inspections. The shop also sells new tires from Michelin, Cooper, and BFGoodrich alongside bath salts infused with new car smell.