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Brookside 66 Service is a working service station at 63rd and Main that has pumped fuel and repaired cars on the same corner since the 1930s — one of the last full-service stations in Kansas City still doing both. It has been family-owned and operated since the 1960s, and since 2008 has been run by Dave DeLorenzi, who grew up in Brookside and worked at the station for years before buying it.

Description

Brookside 66 Service occupies the service-station corner at 6244 Main Street, at the north end of the Brookside shopping district in Kansas City, Missouri. It is a hybrid of two businesses that have mostly been separated everywhere else: a branded retail fuel station and a full-service independent repair garage, operating together on one lot as they did when the site opened in the 1930s.12

The repair side services domestic, European, and Asian vehicles and performs Missouri state safety inspections, which the shop advertises can be paired with other work in a single visit.31 It is a NAPA AutoCare Center, carrying that network’s 24-month/24,000-mile nationwide parts-and-labor warranty, and is listed as an AAA Approved Auto Repair facility.34 Neither affiliation is a franchise; both are certification and warranty programs that independent shops join.

Owner Dave DeLorenzi grew up in Brookside and worked at the station for several years before buying it in 2008, and the shop’s public identity leans on that continuity — it describes an “old-school style of customer service” attached to current diagnostic equipment, and states its technicians carry more than thirty years of experience.1

Goods and services

  • Missouri state safety inspection31
  • General mechanical repair for domestic, European, and Asian vehicles1
  • Brake repair; brake fluid flush3
  • Tires and wheels; tire repair; alignments32
  • Heating and cooling system service; cooling system flush3
  • Transmission flush; power steering flush3
  • Oil changes and scheduled preventive maintenance3
  • Hybrid vehicle service3
  • Retail gasoline (Phillips 66 branded), air pump, convenience items2

History

The site at 6244 Main Street has operated as an automotive service point since the 1930s, when it opened as what the current business calls a “full-service, old school gas station.”1 That places its origin in the same period as the surrounding Brookside commercial district’s build-out along Main and 63rd.

The business states it has been family-owned and operated since the 1960s.1 The family or families that held it across those decades are not named in any source located in this pass, and the claim should not be read as continuous ownership by a single family — the shop’s own phrasing does not say that.

Dave DeLorenzi, a Brookside native, worked at the station for several years and bought it in 2008.1 Under his ownership the shop has retained the retail-fuel operation while building out the repair side, adding NAPA AutoCare certification and AAA approval and taking on hybrid-vehicle work.34

Sources

Footnotes

  1. Brookside 66 Service — official “About Us” page — asserts: the site opened in the 1930s as a full-service, old-school gas station; the business has been family-owned and operated since the 1960s; owner Dave DeLorenzi grew up in the Brookside neighborhood, worked at the station for several years, and purchased it in 2008; technicians with 30+ years of experience; servicing of domestic, European, and Asian vehicles; state inspections; stated “old-school style of customer service” combined with modern technology. Sole source for all founding, ownership-history, and owner-biography claims on this page. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  2. Phillips 66 Fuels — station listing, “Brookside 66” — asserts: branded Phillips 66 fuel station at 6244 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64113; fuel hours Mon–Fri 7:00 AM–6:00 PM, Sat 7:00 AM–3:00 PM, closed Sunday, with pumps available outside staffed hours; on-site air pump, vehicle inspection station, and tire repair. Confirms the fuel-retail half of the operation is live and branded, distinct from the repair shop’s hours. Companion brand listing (same station, 76/Conoco brand family site): 76.com ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Brookside 66 Service — official site — asserts: current address 6244 Main St, Kansas City, MO 64113; phone (816) 608-8434; repair hours Mon–Fri 7:30 AM–5:30 PM; operating since the 1930s; NAPA AutoCare Center with 24 month/24,000 mile nationwide warranty; Missouri state inspection offered and combinable with other work in one day; service list — oil changes, preventive maintenance, brake repair, tires and wheels, alignments, heating and cooling, hybrid vehicle service, transmission flush, brake fluid flush, cooling system flush, power steering flush, tire repair, vehicle inspection. Primary currency evidence for the repair business (accessed 2026-08-14). ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  4. AAA — Approved Auto Repair facility listing, Brookside 66 Service — asserts: the shop holds current AAA Approved Auto Repair status, an inspection-and-standards program AAA administers for independent facilities. Third-party confirmation of active operation and of the shop meeting an outside inspection standard. ↩ ↩2

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On the record — ks.city/registry/brookside-66-service · record updated 2026-08-14