Longtime OHTM Volunteer Featured on News Center Maine Program

Phillip Reinhardt, 26, has a waiting list 30 cars long for his garage where he restores vintage and antique cars.

"As long as I can remember, I’ve kind of gravitated to anything in general that’s old," he said, sitting in a 1951 Jeep inside the garage of his business, Mechanical Arts.

"That applies to old books, old music, and old cars."

That love for old things took Reinhardt to a place dedicated to them, the Owls Head Transportation Museum, when he was just nine years old. He began to volunteer at the museum during the summer, learning mechanics, airplanes, and old cars. 

When he was 15, a relative gave Reinhardt a 1926 Ford Model T, which needed work. He said he jumped right in.