Kosilla received a scholarship to play hockey at Rye Country Day, a private school. Tall, lean and athletic in high school, Mr. If I’m struggling with a problem, I go outside and wash my car.” “Vacuuming is the most therapeutic thing in the world. “At 6, I took a bucket of water and washed my little trike,” he said. Kosilla grew up in Rye, N.Y., the son of a fireman and a teacher’s aide, and even as a child, he liked to clean. And I’m willing to pay for that insanity.’” “I have this weird sickness that I only see what’s wrong with things,” he said. Kosilla put on a disposable white hazmat suit and black latex gloves and got to work, using a $2,400 EDIC Galaxy Auto 3000 Carpet Extractor that was sent to him by the company. Sounding more like a doctor than a detailer, he added, “the first round is topical.”
“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.
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